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Show pany to the operation of a purely urban" ur-ban" road will be voted down and the bill for the franchise, which ban already al-ready passed its second leading before be-fore the council, will be enactod into an ordinance in Its orlglnajaform. Members of the council express the thought that they are determined to get as many street car exteuslonn la the city as possible, and that inasr much as the street car people now see their way clear to make thin extension on Wall avenue and also on Twenty-hfth Twenty-hfth strict ca.it to a point near Taylor avenue, they are not col a PC to do anything any-thing to block the progress of the road. 4 It Is said by members of the liapld Transit people that this extension la only the beginning of a campaign of I extension of tneir street car .system in Ogden and the adjoining districts. The work, on the Ogden canyon extension Is being pushed with all possible speed, and the survey for the Plain City extension Is being mode, and that that road will soon be In course of construction. The Iron for fifteen miles of extended rood has been or-! or-! dered by the company, according to the statement of President Cedes, and that there will be no let up In the building of the proposed extensions until the fifteen miles of additional track are laid. CAMPAIGN OF EXTENSION BEGUN GRANTING OF FRANCHISE IS CONFIDENTLY CON-FIDENTLY EXPECTED. I I I Rapid Transit Planning to Push Work ! In Various Directions With All Possible Speed. j I At the meeting of the city council J touight It la confidently expected that i the committee of the whole will rcc- I ommend the granting of a franchise j to the Ogden Rapid Transit company j to construct aud operate an extension j of their street car sjstem over Wall i avenue, between Twenty-fifth and Thirty-third street. Thli matter was pretty thoroughly threshed out before the committee Friday evening, there being a good attendance of property owners of the southwest portion of the I city, together with representatives of ! the Harrlman Interests, expressed j their views In the matter. i It Is also expected that the propo.-i- ' tion of the Harrlman people to have Injected Into the franchise a clause icMik-UUo the Rapid Truat.it com- . |