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Show .' - . : - ' " ' . - . " ' : ' , . ' ' " ' i M TffidROi to mwm i . - - . : , . , - -, . ; i " r '-- ' " ' - .v i Ilcrriman Syndicate to Give Service in Transportation and lighting Equal to k ; Best in the Country; Fev f avers Are , Asked of the Council. 1 Salt Lake has at last come to her own; The purchase of the street ca& lines by the Harriman Interests will give Salt Lake a system that will put the city on an equal plane with Los Angeles, which is said to have the best traction system in this country. -I The local system will be ripped from tie to trolley and ; the improvements will cost up in the millions. The first work to be done will be to lay new track, the best that money can buy. -New cars will be bought and, many ex-ttns ex-ttns are planned. . . jilt is stated that a grand central station will be one of tSe improvements. The line has been thoroughly gone over, by the Harriman engineers, and while the details have not yet been worked cut, the rough plans have been drawn and are now being perfected. . It ia said to be Mr. Harriman 's determination de-termination to gWe Salt Lake the best street ear system that money can supply. sup-ply. Experts will be employed -and a metropolitan system operated. Mr. Harriman has the greatest faith in the future of the city and the system sys-tem will be rebuilt for the' aeeommoda-,tion aeeommoda-,tion of a city the population of Greater' Salt Lake will demand." - . .-i-- S As oop astbe weather will permit the. Extensions to suburban towns will . be started, and, inside of another year" Salt Lake will be the center of a. great network of traction lines. , ' Already the representatives of the v Harriman-interesta have, asked the Ciy Council to make certain change in the street railway franchises and sentiment among the Couneilmen is that every-. every-. thing possible should be done by the eity administration to boost the company. com-pany. They believe the new people ' mean business. Wfiat Company' Plans. An outline of the plans of the company com-pany was presented to the City Council, whieh showed that the company purposes pur-poses to invest a large amount of cap-ltal cap-ltal in order to bring the public utilities up to the highest standard of perfection. perfec-tion. - Light steel on all tracks will be taken ap and will be replaced by the heaviest atreet -railway ateel used. Bails weighing weigh-ing ninety pounds to the foot will be set: in a roadbed of cement and concrete; con-crete; all curves will be eliminated as far as possible, and- every preparation will be made to roir large and heavy trains on all Unts at fast, speed aebed- uJe i :. ...... . . .. t. . ' It was announced that all linei will be ilooped,'' the ears or trains running out -fever one street, returning ever another an-other line, thus eliminating; long -and useless waits at the ends or the lines. - All of-the ears' now in use wiU. be re- 5 laced by iarger,' better ventilated-and eavier cars of the latest metropolitan .models. .' '. . - - It was announced that all franchises held -by the company will be fully exercised, ex-ercised, and that.no lines will be permitted per-mitted to lapse, ' internxban. Projects. In addition to the lines now. being operated the company proposes to run interurban lines to Garfield, North Salt Lake, - Sandy and Big Cottonwood. The traction officials asked that they be not required to plaee four blocks of their overhead power lines underground this year, in the paved district, but agreed voluntarily to place twenty blocks of - wires underground during 1907. .Nothing was said about new lines to be opened, with the exception of the extension of. certain lines for the purpose pur-pose of constructing their proposed interurban in-terurban system, but it. was intimated that other lines would eventually be built in the eity. Gigantic Steam Plant. . An auxiliary steam plant will be erected in connection with the light and rower serviee at once, thus increasing be brillianey of the lights and giving a greater supply of power to be drawn upon for manufacturing and general purposes. Among other things, it was stated that an expert railroad man will be brought to Salt Lake from the East to take ebarge of the rebuilding and general gen-eral reconstruction of the entire sys-tcm. |
