| Show Rapid Transit in Salt Lake ake City ity iJ HE lIE Utah Light Railway Hallway com coin company T pany has hns accomplished a 11 great groat deal cal ot or valuable vork the past pant year ca in in the lie rejuvenation ot of o its street railway system s This includes the lie rebuilding entire of o a largo frac trac traction loll tion of the tracks and amid the thc thi starting of tho pow Ot barns harn fh i tho tile old Tenth ward tho ho square The float elevation of o barns harns as nit given on OIl this tills page show spacious and accommodation for fo rolling stock stoel The structure L rc Is ins I 20 feet wide wille and a HI feet long divided Intia Q four foni compartments each of or equal size size SIZO and one tory high being a ti feet foot in lit tho he clear elea Tha rhe foundations ms are arc of or concrete cou rete throughout t and un the walls of pressed brick There There are arc 16 tracks In lit Uio thio burIes barns ellch provided with ith a pit of oC livo calS cars capacity and all W f concrete co There are arc wash also al o accommodating hint ing In each eacil four ears CalS The Tho roof root of ot the tho building r Is of or steel trusses with covering and provided with skylights There aro alo Ut u no tilde I l l windows The ruin floors hire aro ot or rolled steel at both fonts everything lor being absolutely tire firo proof Mith no wood 1011 used in construction c In J 11 n ii addition is I an un automatic sprinkler s 1 provided for fOI the lie pro protection ot or th rolling roiling stoe ll in ha InI tho th barns The Tho barns o heated I either with steam tua of hot hoL water vater and anti at tt a fL temperature of tic not less le s than 70 degrees in lit zero weather Tho Jh barn b biri capacity Is J I lii cars car each 15 It feet long bug At t l present In then is itt nit nn other tUIO turo on oil the grounds beyond a n frame tio ci room 1 I for r tho u car I I The ill vm III It I 1 dIt u inu IV v street establishment e for the lie i present sn until things toe are in hit readiness s at tile the Tenth T ward square for removal The Thu black blacksmith new 1 tev W plant will Include smith I It shop machine lao shop paint sit shop op shop simp oil all storage and an supply lU Jl 7 houses club lub house houss for or the tho men and heating plant tOt for nl all nil of the buildings So far ll Im hiatt been on tho ho nc plant to Ill which may mu be 1113 added tho tild cost coL of the square for which tho lie company P paId il David Keith 7 roo A AMr i Mr lr Keith paid tho tint I for forthe forthe forthe the In two t 1 years ngo ago the he uhf lif Indicating liow tow property has hiatt ha halal raised lal ell In value there lucIa in that time The Tho plant which tho company will erect I there tho the coming year ear as shown 1 above will wll require re the expenditure of or Ott mule moie or about all nil told tol In I round numbers A water and anti system has 1155 been installed The Ilie whole arrangement is iii I admirably designated for t and labor saving paving work by hy Chief Engineer Dagion Dag on of It the com company pany Half a mile of o felice surrounds tile the property with barbed wire along alongI the tho top tOt to over on which tho fIb boy hoy I cannot climb dl tub Without tearing t himself I all to tl pieces 1 ft FOR FOIl NEW Xi CARS j Tho ho 50 new nul elegant curs order oiLier ordered ed cd by the tho company UY Ill lir hue Tat flit de delivery 11 livery JIel in November 1007 7 last April representing an expendi expenditure Lure ture of nod and 31 n old cars car bright and amid new a source of retired lathed permanently from front business They hey now suggest c it flIp hp t sigh of o the thi poet us lS he lie h writes Wrecks strewn doug along the lie shores ot of o Tile Tho now new cars ItO aro of r tie the latest and amt most approved model with si vestibules appreciated bythan by bythe the than public and which arc are doing good service and giving entire satisfaction Tho company has hus also ais bought five track sweepers making six in all nil in Ito It possession and anti several now new repair with wHit movable platforms havo have been added addo EPOCH OF or RECONSTRUCTION I The lluc reconstruction has ims been boen remark remarkable remarkable able abic Practically every Cory line except i ithe the Murray lino IIno hints has or le lebB i rebuilt most niost ot of them ci so In Inthis Inthis InthIs I this progress tho tue has lui hauled cubic yards of gravel distributed d I as liB fat far south as itS H Not NuL only I has lias the tho ie line b n entirely rebuilt on Seventh East street butt but It has been double dOll lo tracked and tho thio wagon roadway Ion rebuilt Q nc heavy sano anti and an gravel Tile Tho same may be bo said ot or the tho th theline line lino on tilt Eleventh East street tho the Vat Wat Waterloo Vat erho line blue and tho the avenue line 1011 Important relocations have hLO been made n mJ in the case of o the ito Sugar SugarHouse House tracks on east Cast Ninth South street and the Ashton avenue lines The total reconstruction aggregates ti S Smiles miles CS 58 miles In III two years The rails malls aro pound steel In la the thi pay d tI districts and an 65 Gi 6 pound tiled steel outside The company is now nots building the thu new Fort Furt Douglas connections and 1 g 7 tho tit coming year yenti ear the tho construction scheme schem will include o Second South to Eleventh East Third South down Ninth last East Fourth South down Sev Sos Seventh Seventh East Eniti f tho Ito Thirteenth East street and an the tile Ninth avenue lines It is pro proposed I posed also to build bull on Eighth I West Vest Wc t I j street treet from North Temple to Tenth South streets This will trIll call for a ut largo large expenditure exp of capital Tim Tho com coin company pany lIany management has In mind exten extensions extensions to Sandy Holladay Holla ay and anti to Bing Bingham Bingham ham hanu Junction In hru the tho course of the next three years elm but it Il Is doubtful If there thUl Is hi any an street sl railway extension mauu nm to toG it G as the tho people there here trade ratio le at home lu iuie and there thero are arc so many nULl I trains I running between Garfield and Salt SUt I ITalo Talo that hunt the few fow who do visit tho I city It are aro well vell provided with I IlIon lion facilities The rho Murray lIne lino will wilt willbo willbo bo be rebuilt entirely next year yeah m and put In as fine tin shape a as tho the other recon reconstructed reconstructed lines NEW TROLLEY SYSTEM r The rh lie new conduit system 5 and the in inauguration ii of the thc new ww trolley system s in Ill the tho business bU section aro are most vaX val v improvements Conduits Conduit for all the tin wives of thc lie Utah Light LIht Rail Ruth Railway wHy way company havo been built through 28 S blocks on un Main State Slate West Tem Temple First 15 t Second el and Third South Templo anil alit Fourth South street at an Oil expense of oh If Tho rho rh Installing of if f curbstone trolley stand tand standards ards in lii the paved sections enables le a II removal of ui the old lh time poles Joles that hat havo been heen fur for so long lon an eyesore Csore imy poles arc aro of rolled steel 20 O to 30 0 fret feet high costing Gi G each and station stationed ed cit six sl to each block They hey support the trolley wires with cross cioff sIr wIl supports support i ian and an are not objectionable to the eye Jye r CLEARING THE TIlE STREETS Tho 2110 cobweb of on Main st Is being rapidly obliterated but hIlt the ho heaviest work worl will be ho tho tIm removal ot of the tho vast last complexity c of wires on West Vc t Temple street Electrical Engineer I Honnold Is superintending tho the wiro transfers pushing pa Ito tho Improvement with all possible speed The mechanical departments efficiency will be really s Increased this thi month by the tho arrival and Installation of the tho now noll horse horsepower V V power motor from Milwaukee I lee Inca costing and which gives V the tile company a total of horse horsepower V I power all hut will bo ho required for or V V several years ears to collie conio cOI le This motor is V operated by hy alternating current from V the lie high tension wires and the con eon connecting V generator sends out direct cur oui currents Vt t the tile t r to tent rents with which run r V VelliS cars elliS The lighting of buildings Is by V 0 V alternating currents and as some sOllie riO c V V I houses have haCi been heen erected eroded this year oal the V V I lighting department has hiatt been very i busy I t THOUSAND MEN N AT 1 WORK WORE V I V Tile The company Is at present employ employing lag ing a Ii over 1000 men V LV l lor ot or these being motormen und anti con conductors V f The laborers have been aver averaging aging 00 men TIm Thu expenditure of so 10 t much money mone nod and radical radl al Vr V V transformations could coul hardly have V 1 been accomplished by iii h any nutty other agency V V VI J la lii corporation It than I a i only fair fall to that every one olie con connected connected with tho liti company from Gen General 1 oral eral Manager J r S Wells VelIs Veil and Assist Assistant Assistant ant General Manager Manael R n E B Hunt down V V V has bait worked zealously for the lie com coni haLeys pan und and tho tiu public 1 u lic interest during durins V V V V f tho the past palt year V 1 f |
