Show DEFINITE MOVE fOR A FINE NEW DEPOT Oregon Short Line Asks for Important Franchise IN HANDS OF THE COUNCIL Million to Bo Expsndad in Improvements Im-provements Petition Signed by Manager I tAsks t-Asks for tho Closing of Several Sev-eral Streets First public action in the matter of buildIng the palatal passenger station of the Short Line and the San Pedro I railway lines with the removal oC the objectionable shops and freight department de-partment to North Salt Lake was taken yesterday when the petition oC the Short Line company for a new franchise was fed with the City Recorder Re-corder rWORK WORK WILL PK BEGUN For a long while the new station has been heralded as coming but yesterdays yester-days action makes it a surety and as soon as the franchise is granted work will be begun At last nights meeting of the Council the petition > for a franchise fran-chise in lieu of the old one held by tho Short Line was read by the Recorder and referred to the committees 01 municipal > l laws and strccls The draft of the new franchise accompanied it i is generally expected that the Council Coun-cil will act with celerity in granting this Important nt franchise and thus open the way for a station of which Salt Lake necd chol be ashamed s COST WILL BE GREAT Over 51000000 will finally he expended ex-pended before the full plans are carried out 1 Already the land required has cost a quarter o a million and that under condemnation proceedings wll cost as much more The Ktnfion Itself will standvthe company 2150000 and the other Improvements in the yards and freight department I will cost se oral hundred thousand anc WILL KELP TIlE CITY Besides the benefit of a passenger depot de-pot suitable to the looks and prosperity prosper-ity of the town the public will gain the advantage of having Fourth West opened There has been a quarrel about that street and the Rio Grande I Western wants It for an entrance to Its depot The Short Line shops now located lo-cated between Third and Fourth West and South and North Temple will he removed to a distance doing away with din and pmoke and an unsightly spot The freight yards will go also I I WORK TO SOON BEGIN Immediately upon yard plans being completed work will be begun upon depot de-pot The viaduct will be rushed and when completed will be an ornament to the city being constructed probably of architectural steel Parts of I number num-ber of streets will be closed If tho franchise is granted but traffic will be provided for by the city and ample protection from accidents will be provided pro-vided i by the railroad companies WHAT PETITION ASKS The legal request for the franchise which Is addressed to the Mayor and the City Council is long It begins by stating that the Oregon Short Line has been doing business under unfavorable conditions that the traffic In both branches has doubled since 1897 and H u 1 n nh1 tI HILL UlC inline iroin uiu cuii jvuru 1 ilL I further Increase the cramped condition of the terminals that the San Pedro road will come Into Salt Lalce through Garfield Beach Tooele City and tho Leamington cutoff constructing a line from Buena Vista running eastward about three miloH Intersecting Third West street at Its southern boundary and that a double track will be built on Third Blreot BEEN BUYING LAND It goes on to say that for two years past the petitioner has been acquiring lands abutting on and near Its present yards for the purpose of putting up passenger nod freight terminals and trackage and appurtcnancea and that a map Is presented showing the new lands landLANDS LANDS COST HALF MILLION The petition states that the lands already al-ready acquired cost the company 5275 000 and those in process of condemnation condemna-tion will cost 5225000 making n total of 500000 It represents that in order to accommodate the new buildings and trackage certain streets and alleys upon up-on which the road own the abutting property or has It In process of condemnation con-demnation will have to be closed and traffic diverted to other streets that the company will build a steel viaduct on First North street to carry trainu over the tracks the cost to be about JJflOOOQ and that it will be donated to the city in lieu of streets vacated COST OF THIS BUILDINGS The improvcmcnlH and new buildings It is stated will cost an aggregate of 00000 and wllh the money paid for land the entire work will cot over 51000000 The J company offers to properly proper-ly fence the yards and station and to surrender the charter granted Home years ago 1Ig0OULD i WOULD CLOSE STREETS The petition asks for the closing oC pnrts l of a number of streets land thoroughfares thor-oughfares the went half of Fourth Aest from Fifth North to Ninth North all of Fifth West between btventh North nnd Ninth North all of Grant between Ninth North and a point north of the north side all of Lynn street between Ninth North and Hamilton Hamil-ton all of Chimer between Hamilton and May all of South Temple between the west line of Third West and the east line of Fourth West all of North Temple between Third and Fourth West 165 font on First North between Third and Fourth West all of Sixth North between Fourth tmd Fifth West all of Seventh North to thc Interred of Seventh North and Fifth WcPt Morris Mor-ris avenue In block 53 plat A the west half of Third Wept between First South and North Temple all of Eighth North between Fourth WesL and a point between Fifth and Sixth West all of Hamilton between Lynn and Culmer all of Goodwin between the alley and the Short Line property all of tho past and west alley neat Culmer all of Jefferson Jef-ferson between Fourth and Fifth West In all there fire twentyone streets and alleys to bo closed The company petition for the right to cross at grade Second South First South Secoild North Third North Fourth North Fifth and Ninth North It asks for the right to lay additional track on Third West from Ninth North lo South Temple guaranteeing the requisite safeguards It ends by a provision pro-vision for future building of tracks and Is signed by W W Banciofl vicepresi dent and general 1 manager |