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Show IrMBM ROAD GETS MORE ' I PROPERTY NEAH POSTOFFICE Electric Line Begins Preparations for Crossing Twenty-fourth ' Street to Site of New Purchase Knights of Pythias Lease Ground Floor of New Lodge Building Much : Activity in Interurban Railroad Circles. IH Today arrangements are being I j made for a double track crossing for I ' tne Bamberger road over Twenty- I ft fourth street at the intersection of I I Lincoln avenue. The heavy combimi- 1 ti'on cross rails are on the ground, I l and, as soon as the rails of the Ogdon I jl Rapid Transit company are cut, they I j will be placed in position. This is 'ait , j Indication that the Salt Lake and Og-' I ) den company plans crossing Twenty-j I V fourth street .with its car service, and I ' I tends to confirm the rumor of thej I f ; building of a joint depot by the Bani- I 1 . berger and the Ogden Rapid Transit I companies in the center of the block I j I between Lincoln and Grant avenue I J and between Twenty-third and Twen I ) ty-fourth streets. I . , There are other strong indications I that such a step is about to be taken. I i The Bamberger company has practlc- f H ally closed a lease for the ground f 1 floorof the Knights of Pythias build-i build-i Tif-jRfiirrant .avenue, near Twenty- r ij fourth street) and the Company has tjl also taken an option to purchase a ir tract of land belonging to the lodge J immediately north" of the building. i .The company has advanced ?500 on : J the property and there is little ques- : tlon but that the sale will be consum- 'y mated within a short time. , In connection with this, the Wil- K I Hams property in that vicinity has been purchased by parties who are IH j said to represent the Bamberger peo- HT k The Williams property Is within' a K. t ) short distance of the Knights of "-Ifythlas property and it has frontage H'- of 56 feet on Grant avenue and a K: I depth of 165 feet It is not definitely known that the Salt Lake & Ogden Hallway company is paying for this K- property, yet It is said that it will V. be turned over to that company K. eventually; Other property in that K. , vicinity has been purchased in the j same way. K I r The real estate on which the com-K' com-K' ! . pany has taken an optjon has a fronts'- ; age of 53 feet on Grant avenue and : extends 165 feet west. An allevway W , -having a width of 8 feet will be pro-iw pro-iw vided, which will leave a frontage of H f 45 'ect for a depot building. This Wt' V 'frontaSe. In connection with that of K. f ' the lodge building, will furnish ample . ' space for. a '.union depot, plans for K' f L which, it Is said, will be drawn In , j the near future. Just how the train K ' service will be operated from the R -! depot is a. matter of conjecture, but ,, It was stated this morning bv parties j well posted that in all likelihood the K jc tracks will lead into the depot build- If in' Tt s thought that the depot Kb H would front Twenty-fourth street but Hv f it now looks as though it wil be on ? f Grant avenue and that the trackage m-y. I will lead to Lincoln avenue. K. lvSPeaWns of the situation this morn-m- W . Manager, P. D. Kline of the Og-p Og-p n Rapid Transit company said that Wk r 't- new no P'&ns respecting a K I A Union depot on the part of the com-K com-K U ;any he represents and that,' of Br- ' I fourse- lle knew nothing of the plan? B- i' f? Bamberger people He said, B f Jhowever. that he was putting in the B- -J TcrBS rails for tne Bamberger com-K com-K Ejj pany at the Intersection of Twenty- I fourth street, and Lincoln avenue at their request. |