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Show OGDEN CAR BARNS MAY BE REMOVED Important Improvement la Said to Be Contemplated by Railway Concern. Spatial ta The Trtbuna. ' K3DIQN, Hepi. I?. - Removal f the treel railway and Interurban car bama and HintpH from i iiHi praaanl location on VWiahtnjfton nvniun to a nrw hIIo at the oii i fii I r groundi on Waal Seventeenth tract, i the. mparts nl Jtnprove n haid in imvo been recently decided upon by tiff H-iaiM of iIk- Ogdeir, Logaii A Idaho Railway company. While the raporl could not be confirmed today 'tup to tha eb Hcftticp of prominent t ruction offietnlH liotn the city, tha Information rasardlpg i i"1 proposed rlmiiKo In received from an authentic au-thentic aouroa, The reported change atoo aaid io Include In-clude the converting of about one-lialf of iho fair arousal territory into a public park. Whether the mrk will hp planned I an an nrnuHcmrnt enterprise or public , pleasure ground similar to the city parka, fiHfi not baan ascertained. Tha old fair groundi tract, consisting of aboul i hirt v acres (it wtluahh' lanri, was owned hv the, toes' holds. a of i Koui -hih i r i'n i i aaeo elation until about one year ago. The Interests of all other stockholders were then bought up by m. s. Brownlngi president presi-dent of the Ogden, lxguu & Idaho It: I - aay company. When the new Intertirhan terminal wan I t-At a hllnhed on Twenty-fourth strrei, the Booiaa company oonstruottd a new line for its Bcrigherri City Intarurban aarvloa north on Lincoln avenue to Seventeenth street, thus taklni tha Iriterutben alactrlo cara off th busy local Unas I" heart of the city, At Seventeen I h at reel the Inlerurban c.tm arc reverted hack to the Washington avenue linen It ta said to he the Intention of (lie company to event-Ually event-Ually extend the Lincoln avenue line north through the fell grounds and over a private pri-vate cluh i ot whv to I la i riavllle. With tht plan In view, the old fail ground would nor onh affoid an admirable admir-able location foi ear baritp and Shops on the main Intel urban line, hut would also permit the erection of tha larger building needed when the tine hat been opeuel thiough to Praaton, Idaho. The old quar-lera quar-lera on Washington avenue heiweon Twentieth and T went - first m reel a are iiatd to lack all of t he fa ill ilea needed for the c 1 1 linen without taking Into con-atdetatlun con-atdetatlun the northern Interurhan sya-tem. sya-tem. P. D. Kiinr. general manager, la on an laapaction over the northern line today, to-day, and M S. Brow nt iik, president of the - ompanv . Is in Oregon on buslm s |