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Show w 1 I HANDICAPS OF STREET CARS Hj Notwithstanding the street car sys- tem in Salt take is being operated on a fare higher than in Ogden, rhe Hl Utah Light & Traction company has made application to discontinue ser v'ce on four blocks and to icmove fl rails, ties, poles, wires and other equipment. The compan gives as a reason for the action proposed that the city of Salt Lake is about to proceed with the paving of Indiana f avenue where the tracks are laid and that, when this Is done, the petitioner will be required by law to pave all space occupied by its tracks, togctb-er togctb-er with a space two feet wide on the ouLside and on each side of them. Hj This, as Is shown, will cause the I company to incur an . abl, eitlmated by i, u. amount to the sum of $17 1 76 It is set forth In the fetltkm that th volume of business on this part or Indiana avenue is InsuMicleni to Justify lh(? additional expense and 'hat needless operating expense or I capital invested in giving such ser-vice ser-vice must of necessity be reflected in an added burden and expense to the Public U )8 arcu0(J ,hat the publjr iBteresf demands .bar the petitioner cxerclso the economy which he re 1 quests in asking i0 remove Us prop erty from the avenue. This 19 now a daily occurrence throughout the clues of the country. 1 The traction companies have been made most unprofitable by the auto mobile, and. except where verv much hither Ihan five-cent fares have been 'barged, a condition of bankruptcy has prevailed. There are a few exceptions ex-ceptions to this among the street car systems in the great centers of population. Rather than drive the traction companies off their streets, man cities are making concessions in the matter of paving The street car business has undergone under-gone such a radical change in the past ten years aa to cease to bo an luvitlng source of investment and. as a result, street railroad bonds are not marketable and many of the roads are left financially stranded. ' |