Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-04-20 | Page 13 | Rushing at Tooele: Tooele Valley Road

RUSHING AT TOOELE; " TOOELE VALLEY ROAD But the City Won't Allow Baseball Base-ball or Kite-Flying on Sunday. - Special to The Tribune. TOOELE, April 19. About fifty prominent promi-nent citizens of Tooele appeared beforo the city council last night, asking for a repeal Of the ordinance prohibiting Sunday Sun-day baseball playing, flying kites, marblo playing, etc. Good talks were made In favor of repealing the lnw. and several heated discussions were engaged in, but action was deferred. Mr. Benson asked for special permission for a game on next Sunday for the boneflt of a disabled Iron worker, but was refused. The steam franchise for the Tooele Valley railroad was extended one year, which continues lt to December 7, 1911. Another matter of Importance before the council was the request of F. E. Mc-Gurrln Mc-Gurrln and others for a twenty-flvo-ycar franchise for electric light service in Tooele. Through new arrangements just completed, com-pleted, telegrams and express can be handled at the Tooele valley substation In the new townsltc. Everything In the new townslte Is booming and a great deal of building Is going, on. Trees are being planted dally, and. as evidence of the rapid grovth. the Tooele Valley road reports that at least 1500 fares are collected dally over the line between the San Pedro station and tho smelter. An attractive, up-to-dnto barber shop has just been opened In .the new town, next door to the I X L furniture store, C. B. Stinman, the proprietor, having Just come from Plocho. Owing to the recent washout. Mr. Stinman wan compelled com-pelled to have his household effects brought overland from Piochc to Tooele. The Utah Metal Mining companv Is doing some splendid, work In tho Middle Canyon mine near Tooele. About sixty men are tit work at present, driving tunnels tun-nels and getting the mino ready to do some cffectl-c work In the verv near future. fu-ture. Large supplies of freight, are arriving ar-riving dally nnd a big development Is expected In the near future.