Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-06-26 | Page 1 | Opening of Canyon Line

OPENING OF CANYON LINE FIRST CARS GO THROUGH THE GATEWAY TODAY. Excursion of 30o Employes of Z. C. M. I. in Salt Lake Will Be' Convey-, ed to Peery Resort. The new car line up Ogdcn canyon will be informally opened this afternoon after-noon when about 300 employes of the Z. C. M. I. of Salt Lake, with delegations dele-gations from Wright's, Burt's and other oth-er local establishments, will be taken as far as Peery's resort by trolley and thence by other conveyances to Idlewlld. The Salt Lake excursionists will arrive ar-rive over the Bamberger route ftt 4:25 and will start directly for the canyon. The Ogden Rapid Transit company will inaugurate thirty-minute service ser-vice today and this evening and a fifteen-minute service if the fame is found necessary. Sunday the fifteen-minute fifteen-minute schedule will be in force all day. Contrary to tho prevailing Idea that the company will charge a rate of twenty cents each way from town to point in the canyon, it has been decided de-cided to place the price at 15 cents, 5 cents on the city line, and a etralght 10-cent rate in any part of tho canyon. ThlB rate will hold throughout the season, sea-son, no extra charge being anticipated anticipat-ed even when tho lino is completed to The Hermitage. The canyon traffic will be handled by the big new cars recently purchased for that purpose.