Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-06-26 | Page 13 | Railway Company Held to Contract

y 5 mm Cannot Pave for Single Track When Franchise Provides for Double. OGDEN, June 2-";. Information that tlit Og'len, I.ogan & Maho Kailwary company com-pany will r.ot lie permitted In pave for, a single track on Fouth Washington ave- I nue "when it holds a fiv.nchiso for a double irack i!i lonrainccl in a letter received re-ceived from the .stale highway cuinnils-sion cuinnils-sion toilav In' the Weber county board ' of commissioners. The communication confirms the commission's decision to aid in the improvement to the extent of Omj, but the matter of requiring the street railway company to pave a twenty-one-foot stietch along the center ot Washington avenue is a new development. in his communication to tile county hoard, Ira R. Brownim,', state road engineer, en-gineer, says lie has ascertained that the street railway company holds a franchise which provides a double track throughout through-out the entire length of Washington avenue within the city limits. The company com-pany will therefore be compelled to pave this full widtii, according to the letter, even though a large portion of the distance dis-tance between Twenty-eighth and Thirty-sixth Thirty-sixth streets has oniy a single track, at the present time.