Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-02-07 | Page 21 | Li Ht and Railway Must Pay More License

y LI II HT III AND RAILWAY MUST PAY MORE LICENSE May Be Taxed One Per Cent of the Gross Earnings of the Company The license which the thin Utah Light and Railway company will wl bo ho assessed for ma may cause calse some trouble before tho the matter matel Is settled as tho the resul result of a a little quiet investigating that has been done by License Assessor Sam I I. I Godman Godman Godman God- God man and members or of the Tle The company compan has hns been paying 25 5 arear a n year rear for tor or each car cr operated regularly or It J was so believed until Godman commenced to Investigate In ests He Ho says he ho has lias discovered that tho the company is operating about cars re regularly and paying for Cor a little more than half hal of them It I is proposed to assess the tho company compan 1 I per er cent on its Is gro earn earn- earnings lags ings the same as telephone companies I are taxed instead of or charging so much a car I The councilmen have havo o ha also b been en looking Into the affairs of oC the he West WestSide WestSide cst Side Rapid Transit company which Is la operating one car cr The Tue comp company's nys ny's charter does oes not expire until July 1 1910 uno Sometimes the car Is operated by one man mati while at other times two men are employed A resolution In Introduced Introduced introduced In- In in the thc council counci some seine time ago providing that no ho le less than two men be employed on the tho car has not been rl dl enforced ane and since the city solons have learned that the franchise franchiso has more than a n year of life lie they may make nn an In effort efort to enforce tho Lion tion ton oI I