Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-02-25 | Page 4 | Franchises and Railroads

r Salt Lake City council for a franchise for his interurban road. He dcsire3 to seciiro the right to run freight trains into the heart of the business district. The securing of franchises for electric lines reaching reach-ing from the north boundary of Utah to the southern point of Salt Lake valley has led many to surmise that large railroad interests are moving: to secure right-of-way and terminal facilities and, when those rights have been secured, to disclose plans for the inva-ion of .H&rriman territory by an interloper, perhaps the Burlington or some other strongly financed road aiming to ultimately reach the Pacific coast. The Burlington is in north central Wyoming, not more than 300 miles from Ogden and to presume that the Burlington will fail to grasp the rich opportunity invitingly extended from this region is to reflect on the business acumen of the men at the head of that road- FRANCHISES AND RAILROADS. , Jesse Knight, the wealthy mine owner of Provo, has asked the