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Show SSALT LAKE HAS EXCELLENT STREET CAR SYSTEM t-S5 c2 vtJ i t J LARGE SUM EXPENDED FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN 1915 CAR BARNS OF THE UTAH LIGHT & TRACTION COMPANY This great structure represents only a small portion of the millions of dollars expended in Salt Lake by the street railway concern and at night, during the few hours that the system is idle, it gives shelter to about loQ cars. 4 ft f . 1 i " " j" i j id ! - lS r . ,, - i : . ' A f ' ?f I ' " i fJ " 1 . . . , , a ' . 1 , r ' -4 . - , - , - " , - - J Pay-as-YDU-Enter, Type of i Cars Frovs Satisfactory to Officials, . . 1" FfC W fiicr firs lui vc t'iu red more t. i iiuru i noii M in advertising Salt Lukt: tlirmiglio'.it tho country as a, ji iod jilrifp 'm whii'h to live than t he city 's siuliMKlid .L't mot railway sys-(c:n. sys-(c:n. " Suit dike's lame Ikih spread, far-and will-,- rho p;iv,t year, and the city is hotter known today f lian ever before. An adciuiite electric street railway service serv-ice plays it. most important, part in cre-Ji'ii1 cre-Ji'ii1 a Javo-rablo impression on the sisitin- thousandfi who pass through V t a 1 1 each year, and few cities in the fount i'y may boast a finer 1 1 an sport a-lion a-lion .'-ystem thou Halt Lake. Large Sum Expected. 'L'o l.:t;ih Light & Traction company luts expemled several hun-lreit thousand dollars the past twelve months in every sei't ion of Kali Lake in i in proving and extending its wl-rot car seryire. More than five miles of open track has heeu newl-v- paved and more than 1 1 1 -miles of op"n track has received new Hiir'aeing or extensive general repairs. The payroll of -1 lie company a mounts to .several hundred thousand dollars a year, ami nearly a thousand men and women are Vfii vnn employment. M ore tlin n I - In miles of t rack is be-i be-i n g cpef:ted at present by t he Utah Light Y. Traclion company in Salt Lake nmi icinit y. itli an estimated jiopu-lation jiopu-lation rf I'J.'i.Ouu p.eoplo within the company com-pany 's t-1' i'it ory. Th e passenger ca rs in uperaii"! number b"i), nnrl this makes a total of ."), 50(i.i)(Ki car miles per year. Pay-as- You-Enter. One of the operating problems of 191. "5 th;it. has attracted much interest among officials of the Ltah Light &. Traction com pa ny has be-Mi the " pay-as-you-en -1 er ' ' ',y pe of i-a rs. I 'ai l v in t he year all of the er.rs opera ted by the Utah 1 aght. x Traction com pa ny were con- erted into this type, and it has been found that their operation has boon more i than sat isfaetory, paraicularly in elim- i i n;it ing accidents to passengers, board- j ing" and it lighting from cars. . The safety first' campaign iiuiugu- . rated by the company in I01L! has been ! p ros.ee ut ed vigorously during 1 0 1 .1 and j has proved an extremely important 1 phasij, of' the company's operations. j |