Show FOURTH STREET A strong objection to closing it from hooper REASONS URGED tho the malady and its cure bridging the oracles the remedy mr bir thomas read of hooper 1 sends a communication to the HER ALD in reference to the petition of the U P company for the doling closing of fourth street he laye says it would bp be hard for him to conceive conceive of an anything j thing more wore unjust or discriminating crimin aling against the interests of ogden city aind and especially those people of the county who live west of weber river the history of the past he argues should be a warning ito the county court and the city council when the ril roils roads came here they promised if ground round was given them to build a spot depot and workshops thee these pro niiles are filled the railroads now have the to ask for the closing of ono one of the principal thoroughfares of the city and modestly ask the cit city yand and county to bear a proportion of the expense of moving the bridge to where they would lik like to have it abia would involve the expend expenditure it ure of thou thousands salads of dollars the proposition to build a road along the river river from first to eighth streets is looked upon by dy mr read as dangerous in t the he extreme he says lays there would be no less jess danger dinger than in having to cross tho the tracks tricks for there bould be the engine bells bell and whistles on one hand to scare teams on ac rhe other hand band there would be the r river v e r moreover mi there astill would be a number of tracks and switches to cross on the north while the flie game same conditi conditions exist on eighth street the scheme to place the bridge north of the D R G mr bir read considers circuitous and he be recommends that should that be done that tho the people we weak it of ogden make a little ogden or some other named place in their own vicinity or do aa as they used to do come to ogden by way of Ri verdale he ile says be would like to awaken those who live of the weber to the feasibility of having one or two stores of their own and doing their own buying 1 and selling he acks the merchants of ogden if they would prefer to have the trade of hooper people or to have fourth street closed the present road continue mr read suits us well and if it docs does not pot suit the railroad i c companies or apanites let them build a bridge similar to the one over the weber over their proposed tracks tricks it should have two tracks and an foot wall or fence on either side so that if a team should become scared seared it could do no damage but could go right aaeng as is now rome timea umes the case when a train crosses the iron bridge mr bir read thinks that if this is done the people will bs bo satisfied if any other plan is adopted it will be a source of gri grievance evanco never to be forgotten if we are to have a boom he be says let iet us have one in which all can rejoice alike let it not be lik like e a jug handle all on one tide side |