Show WATER LINE YARDS RAILROAD COMPANIES TO BE IN DEPENDENT OF CITY SUPPLY water mains may bc placed along twenty sixth street to corn emissary building from tuesdays standard A movement is on foot whereby the oregon short line or rather the harriman lines entering this city are to have their own waterworks water works supplied from the hills east of tho city by means of a pipe line information to the effect that within a short time permission would be asked to run a pipe line down twenty sixth street from a point in the hills east of ogden to the site of he new commissary building now in course of construction in which a laundry is to be maintained and which will require considerable water has gained wide circulation and it haa now been learned that plans have been drawn and will be submitted to the head officials ot tho harriman lines and with approval the next step will be to secure a franchise from the city to nm the pipe line to the railroad yards that this would prove of much benefit to the railroad company cannot be disputed ai they would be independent ot any meter or other tax of the water company and would not be limited as to the amount used and it would also make it possible for the company to erect stand pipes throughout the yards at the most convenient places whre locomotives could take water the prospect at this time looks bright for the new project and it is believed that by the time the new commissary building is ready for occupancy the pipe line will have been laid to this end the engineers are already working and it may be that connections with the laundry will be made before the laying of the flooring if athla be the case the alepa to obtain a franchise will be taken at an early date from the commissary building tha pipe line is to be laid throughout the yards and to the machine shops and the other company buildings with stand alps along the southern pacific oregon short line main line tracks it is also flatea that should the company place pipe line and extend the line through the yards the water for the union depot will also be taken from these bains nains |