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Show THE ELECTRIC LINES IN UTAH j "Know Utah," n weekly letter is W sued by Win. H Child & Co . brokers, j S;i 11 Lii ke is doing - elleni oik In pointing out the resources of the 1 state. The last letter is devoted to J the electric lines, In which the fol- lowing facts are presented "The settlements between Salt Lake City and Ogden have grown to appr--L. I date the advantages of electric transit J? ' . since May. lfUO. when the Salt lake Ogden steam road was electrified H Speed was increased and service mul I plied until liourly trains were run ning throughout the day and early I evening From So It Lake to f anning ! , ton. Utah, the service is doubled I JL- This road is fifty miles in length a anrl r"T,i)lp persons Its elec- "' I trie equipment consists of one electric I W I locomotive ten double motor cars, I valued si "'.2,500. and six electr:c rj 5 tailers taxed on a value of $2,500 ?t? K tl f franchises are valued by the assessors I I at $15,000 j ll "At certain seasons of the year the i II Salt Lake & Ogden carries great quau J! titles of fruit, especially apples, peach-I peach-I rs and grapes, to the Salt Lake mar-J mar-J I ket Besides saving the time of the ! fruitgrower, the quick transportation 1 J brings perishable fruit6 to the con-,f con-,f sumers in better condition than th jl old method and prcents loss i ' "There is not so much business in vegetables As the growers have to negotiate their sales with individual dealers, they still bring the garden A products to the city in wagons The railroad men are seek:ng to promote i a public market where such commod ities may be sold directly to the con I cumers by the agents of the produo J ll ers. "Butter, milk and other dairy prod nets are a larc item of the Salt Lake Ogden lnterurban business the year around Passenger traffic Increased by about 15 per cent last year The company also handles express. "A large increase In the freight and express business is expected as the result of an agreement made with the Ogden Rapid Transit company for interchange of traffU Hereafter ex press and freight. Including fruit, milk and vegetables, will be rushed to Salt Lake from points north of Ogden almost as quickly and cheaply as from points to the south "The Ogden Rapid Transit, in Its travel between Ogden and Brtchat.i City, touches Willard, Harrisvlile. Plain City, rieasant View and North Ogden A branch is under construe tlon to Huutsvllle. eight mileB. "This company owns practically all the stock of the Logan Rapid Transit company running from Ixigan, Cache county, six and a half miles to Smith- field It has four ears and fifteen to twenty employes A branch runs to the stnte agricultural college "The Emigration Canyon railroad is lourteen miles long and serves the large number of summer campers who have houses or tents in the beautiful rnnyon. as ell as Ihe tourists who desire to view Ball Lake valley from the spot where the Mormon pioneers first looked upon it. The building of this line multiplied ihe value of 'and In the canyon 300 oi 400 per cent." nrt |
