Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-02 | Page 12 | Bright Future for Electric Line

BRIGHT FUTURE , FOB ELEGTBIG LINE What Systom Could Accomplish Through tho Valleys of Utah. FOR several years past efforts have been made to start nn Interurban electric service in this State with this city as the center, the lines extending south through Utah county and north through Cache valley. Several Sev-eral companies have been incorporated and mode some show at starting work, but there has always seemed to be a lapse. Time und again it has been said that the Lagoon road would go to Og-den Og-den and be made an electric line, that the Nunns had decided to work out' the salvation of the West Side Rapid Transit, Tran-sit, that tho city road would go to various va-rious parts of the county, and the other lines would be built. With all this talk thero has as yet been nothing accomplished, ac-complished, and still, as a railroad man said yesterday, it Is one of the best propositions prop-ositions that could be placed before Investors, In-vestors, a finely equipped and modern electric system extending from Logan to Provo, which could eventually be extended to take In Payson on tho south and Preston, Ida., on tho north. All over tho East these lines are paying, and, in addition, they are side by side with the fine roadways, travel by other means not being decreased, but rather stimulated by tho electric Hne9. They Increase the population and get the people In the habit of traveling travel-ing while the distant farms arc brought Into close touch with the lending cities. Such a system now runs from Cleveland Cleve-land to Chicago, and It is rapidlv building up the country. A line of this sort Is sure to be built eventually In thjs State, says this railroader, rail-roader, and when It Is tho excellent results re-sults will be quickly demonstrated. The local route has such large places as Logan, Lo-gan, Brlgham, Ogdcn and Provo to draw from, with towns of the size of Payson, Farmlngton and Lohl, with others smaller but no less prosperous, too numerous to mention Lying between be-tween these cities, Payson on the south and Preston, Ida., on the north, Is as fine a farming section as can be found anywhere In the United States all ready to pay tribute to such a system