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Show I STREET RAILWAYS BANKRUPT. All kinds of troubles are upon the Utah Light & Traction company, com-pany, which is the corporation operating the street car service in Salt Lake. The company is charging six cents for street car fare and is asking for an increase to seven cents and even eight cents, and within the last few days tlm manager has requested the privi- lege from the city commission of Salt Lake to remove its rails from Indiana avenue to Eighth South to avoid its share of paving Indiana avenue. This same problem is before nearly every street car company in the United States and city authorities. The automobile has made, the street car business unprofitable and 90 per cent of the city traction trac-tion companies are bankrupt or on the verge of bankruptcy. "When paving programs arc being considered, the cities are in no position to force the street car companies to carry the same proportion pro-portion of paving obligation as in the past, because the traction concerns con-cerns stand ready to throw up their franchises, or vacate streets as is! jiow being done in Salt Lake City. |