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Show DBJECT10WS MADETO TElliLFMUISE Protest Filed With City Com- i mission Against Grant on Pierpont Street. D. B. Hompstcad and other citlrens who own tho property abutting on Pierpont Pier-pont street, yesterday filed with the city commission a protest to the granting of a franchlso to the Salt Lake Terminal company to lay a track and operate cars through Pierpont street, in accorduncc with a petition tiled by tho terminal company. com-pany. The protestants allege that on December Decem-ber 2, 188D, thoy und their predecessors, granted to each other a right of way over the real estato now known as Pierpont Pier-pont streot and that in May, 1007, the property was deeded to tho city and that thereafter they tmld for the laying of sewers, watermains and paving In the street, and for tho construction of sidewalks. side-walks. It Is charged that If the franchloo wero granted nnd tracks laid that thero would not bo sufficient room in the street, which Is forty-two feet wide, to accommodate the ordinary traffic, and that there would bo constant danger of accidents. Tho attention of tho commission commis-sion Is also dlroctcd to restrictions that wero placed in other franchises granted by the city and the fact that nono is provided In tho franchise now petitioned for. Tho protestants object to tho proposed pro-posed erection of wooden poles in tho street, as Is sought In tho franchise, and cay that it required a great deal of effort ef-fort to bhyo wooden poles romoved from the street' In tho pest. If the franchise Is granted, say the Jirotestante, their property will be Inured, In-ured, whoreas tho street was dodlcatcd to tho city for the purpose of enhancing their proporty values. The signers of- tho protest and the property frontage they represent are David Da-vid Hompstcad. 2S0 feet; Henry R. Ellis, El-lis, 132 feet; General Engineering company, com-pany, 26.5 feet; J. M. Wilfley, 111 2-3 feet; Gallgher Machinery company, 242 feet. |