Show UNION DEPOT SITE GOM COMES UP AGAIN ACAIN Council Committees Hear Arguments Arguments ments For and Against QUESTION Tour of n II to 0 bo be or of tue tho The Council committees on laws and streets with Oily City Stephens met last lut leg for the of further iring the union depot ques lion Ion Chairman Thomas the presiding of at both was present presenta tnt n a also were nil the ot of the tho COin in It tItS The Oregon Short Line waft Wa b by Attorney P L 14 WIlliams Manager and Aeling Chief The Tue Rio JUo Grande Western by Attorney Andrew 11 t tW W G 0 Sharp Engineer Yard rd r B B 13 Wicks time tile real estate agent wan also In attendance The present fere Attorney ne ney Janies II Moyle loI Peter Held J J Corum W A hodges J It 1 D J Jenkins anti three or tour four oth oner ot of property In the vicinIty ot of the railroad depots The first to Address the meeting urns Peter Reid nelt said that the tho people hu he represented were favorable to the build In lag of n a union depot but th they ob objected objected to time the closing ot of any streets un until til thu the lie closed part of the tho streets 1111 been provided With viaducts Ito He also alo said Mid the property owners wanted corn com for or damages on account of the streets beIng used for additional W v A hodges thought the railroad people should bo be made tl to put Fourth West street In good repair bero before the wa granted Mr Ir hodges further suggested the tho erection of via viaducts viaducts ducts South or North Temple streets Thompson of the opinion that the railroads should be required to buy out aU all on the theler tier ler of oC blocks north from the Grande Western depot between Fifth nail and Sixth West J J suggested the con all utI the tie tracks of both roads J E Openshaw dId not want rant to see Ice Fourth Wc Vest st street occupied b by nn any anymore more railroad tracks Attorney James H 11 Moyle was WIS the next to address the lie He said it Il was the aIm ot of the railroad com to control the entire country from Third to Seventh West In order artier to force Corce valuable lonc for tonal minI facilities then other railroads carne came cameto to tho oIt city Arguing from a legal standpoint royle Moyle contended that the tho City was not vested with In law laur to grant use of any streets street to railroads unless viaducts are built to nako travel over ovar the tracks sate the railroads anti Ind prot protestants agree on this point lie he pro pre d long and vexatious litigation ho bo tore roro the is III granted Attorney I 1 L Williams pointed out the nl ariI ave avo some ot of the nd ad advantages vantages or of n a depot to a city It would be he stitch to find finda a I alto Ito n the city where some property owners who ho On ted t to sell au out t tnt nt it exorbitant wo would ld not object The Tho railroad companies could bet better better ter afford to do without the unIon depot and connections whIch would cost coet and meant no extra tern reve nurs to the tho adit than 1110 people of Snit Salt Ink could afford to be without It b by denying petition tot fok the Iran tron chico As to viaducts the they would be built whon the necessity lt for tor them came anti Ind on the l of damages to prop oFt Mr r Williams said the courts wOr urero open oln for Cor the settlement of such qu ques s ions Mr Eceles Eccles that last Insl year the two railroads had an Interchange ot of 20 passengers gers In Ogden Oden The freIght dIstributing business was increasing It could be just as well troll centered In Snit Salt Lake The s adjourned adjourn without takIng nn any action netlon having decIded d to viII visit It the streets t which the proposed franchise will affect on Wednesday nf at sterling from the Oregon Short Line LIM depot Rt at 3 All interested ar are Invited to go co olon along |