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Show PROPOSE LEAGUE TO FIGHT FRANCHISE Property Holders Call Meeting for Next i Tuesday Night at Pioneer 1. Stake House. KoUuVing a gathering of residents of, the vicinity of First West and North j Temple streets Tuesday night for the j purpose of seeking to have the petition 1 for spur tracks by the Salt Iake Termt- j nal company denied, a meeting will be hold at 7:30 o'clock next Tuesday night at Pioneer stake meeting house for the organization or-ganization of a league to fight the proposed pro-posed franchise. At the meeting last Tuesday a committee was appointed to circulate a petition among persons residing resid-ing on First and Second West streets, all cross streets between North Temple and Ninth South streets, and the west side of West Temple street, requesting the city commission to refuse the petition. peti-tion. Other requests to be presented to th commission are that no further spur tracks for private purposes be allowed between Ninth South . and . North Temple streets, and that the body set aside First West street, the east side of Second West street and North Temple street between West Temple and Third West streets as a permanent residence district. Members Mem-bers of the resolutions committee are John Hoi ley, chairman: George G. Smith, T. T. Burton. John J. Olsen and Mrs. G. U. Sunimerhays. John Holley acted as chairman of the meeting and C. S. Hyde as secretary. The franchise requested by the terminal termi-nal company is to connect its tracks on First West street, between South Temple and North Temple streets, run north to North Temple srteet and east one-half block between First West and West Temple streets, with a spur to haul coal to the central heating plant. Also it will run west on North Temple street and connect with the present tracks of the Salt Lake & Ogden line through Davis county. If the franchise is granted m its present form. Mr. Holley says. It will mean the hauling of coal over the Orem lines from the south, up First West street and connect with the Bamberger lines, with an outlet through Davis county coun-ty to Preston, Idaho. |