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Show A WARRANTY DEED FOR OGDEN? , The railroad company has stopped Superintendent Kircher of the Ogden Waterworks from laying the water mains on Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth street, west of Wall avenue. It appears that a little over two years ago the city of Ogden gave the railroad company permission permis-sion to build a viaduct over Twenty-fourth street, west of Wall avenue, ave-nue, closing said street to public travel. All this was done for the benefit of the railroad companies. Tho present city government, however, was under the impression impres-sion that, while the former city government had granted the right to use the surface of Twenty-fotirth street, the city had reserved the 1 right to go into the ground underneath the surface, but the railroad company, it seems, claims absolute title to the ground in question. Ogden has been very good to the railroads. Th,e latter have i been getting everything they asked for, yet everything Ogden ha3 I wanted has been declined. Every street running west, between Twentieth and Thirtieth streets, is occupied by the railroad tracks and one would think the railroad companies would be decent enough to permit Charley Kircher to drive under the tracks with his water pipes on one street, without bringing about the humiliation of the whole city government. We suggest that the mayor send a communication to the city council recommending thai a warranty deed be made, transferring to the railroads all of Ogden City, including her inhabitants, "together "to-gether with all hereditaments and appurtenances thereto belonging," belong-ing," including the circumambient air, and all the ground between the earth's surface in Utah extending to China in the Orient. Then in the future, when Ogden shall want anything, she can get down on her knees and implore for favors. But now to ask for such favors, when the things we want are really ours, indicates that we are cowards and submit willingly to a serfdom that should not exist. We admit the railroads own a big part of Ogden, but not all of it, and the city is not going to get on her knees asking permission to use its own streets not under the present city government. |