Show THE STREET RAIL WA Y proposition A distinguished col D B dyer from augusta georgia ie in the city he arranged to buy the ogden street railway on condition ondi tion that the city grant him certain concessions first he aski for the privilege of carrying on be care express breight baggage and U 5 mail there can be no reason abia objection to these cochee eions of course the city debould eee that nothing bat electric cars are used for the freight hufines hu sines taft franchise should read that it ahall not be construed to let locomotives or other eleam engines run on the tracks sec nd colonel dyer asks that the city do the paving between the tracks if tha city grants to colonel dyer the right tu ran an electric light system then he should paye the car portion ot mhd etre ete but if the city joes not grant the to conduct an electric light then the city can afford tor a term of five or ten years to pave atie streets for he estreet car company third ool dyer asks for a twenty five year franchise thia ie rather long ten a under present conditions would be right believed beli evea that odea city will be aluch larger city in ten years than salt lake city 13 today and if that be true the estreet car will be a big revenue pay erand tha city will receive no rental whatever now to be fair a clause should be inserted that whenever the streetcar system pays operating ex pen and interest ou tha actual investment the surplus revenue over and above that should be divided between the city and the company fourth col dyer asks that be be granted a franchise for an electric light plant jointly with the street car franchise there Is where the danger is thi pioneer power company has been busy constructing a very expensive plant they have just finished their plant and expect to receive the patronage patro nagu ot the people in ogden for electricity it looks rather un fir to the pioneer power company for oden city to grant a franchise to light the city to other parties when they have spent a million and a half dollars in our midst in building the greatest power plant in the nation believes that the city will proof through mr dyers investment fn thia city if he buye the road people who knew mr dyer fn georgia and kansas city say that col dyer ie just the man ogden needs at this timp yet it the city should tay to mr dyer we want the pioneer power company to light our city we believe mr dyer would sy 1 I admire your loyalty to your home ve think mr dyer would feel aber it be were to a franchise from the city great corporations and enter prece appreciate preci ate the loyalty and confidence of h community id which thuy operate it la this combination of confidence an I 1 capital that buildt up A city that baa a record of granting a second and a third franchise before fee first can be utilized will soon drive investors away some of the pioneer power company directors have felt that ogdin city ban been unfriendly to abo great electrical enterprise and for the city now to grant a franchise to a new concern ia conflict with a franchise which had beon granted to the pioneer company two years ago and on whish franchise the company made ite and on which it depended when it built its gigantic plant would but prove that oden wae not only unfriendly bat unfair to the pioneer power 8 great plant when aa a matter of fact the people of loyal to the power company and rant it to be win eased by the unanimous action of the people in to raise a half million dollars to locate factories in |