Show A SUGGESTION Why should not Salt Lake City have an elevated railway There is no reason why the suggestion embodied in the above question should not be utilized Salt Lake City is amply able to build and support an elevated railway In fact the city demands the building of such a road as it demands eyerything else in the line of enterprise and development devel-opment The city has entered upon tho broad course of progress which is to make her one of the greatest cities of the American continent Her metropolitan destiny is already assured as-sured and her citizens should neglect neg-lect no opportunity They should leave no stone unturned that can be used in the building up of their city An elevated railway is not the expensive enterprise it was a few years ago Invention and experiment have assimilated and cheapened here as elsewhere and in the construction of an elevated railway hundreds of dollars only are now required where formerly thousands thous-ands were demanded The latest improvement im-provement in elevated railways both inutility in-utility and cheapness Is the Enos Electric System Los Angeles has adopted this system and within the next six months the progressive Southern Californian city will be traversed and encircled by an electric elevated railway rail-way and can boast a railway which will carry with perfect comfort and safety fifty people per car at the rate of sixty miles an hour including stops The Enos system is not an experiment it has been fully tried and proved There is now a fullsized and fullyequipped road in operation at Green Point New Jersey and this road gives tho utmost satisfaction What Green Point New Jersey has done and what Los Angeles is about to do cannot be beyond the business grasp and enterprise of Salt Lake Cityl The opportunity should furnish the incentive to our capitalists From the Railway and Steamship Guide we clip the appended description of tho coming Los Angeles elevated electric railway and explanation of tho workings I of the system i The traok gill bo constructed on a series of halfarch braces sprung from posts sot from 40 to GO feet apart each post capable of sustaining a weight of seventynine tons strain while tho maximum weight of a loaded passenger car will not exceed thirteen thir-teen tons There are two 30pound steel T rails one to be used as a carrying rail and the other as a guide Tho rails are spiked to a crossbraced truss above and below four feet apart Tho dynamo whioh serves as a motor and trucks runs upon the upper rail and is hold in position and guided by two wheels on either side of the head of the lower and inverted rail connected by a pair of curved hangers to which tho car is suspended and which brings the contra of gravity immediately under tracks and centre of oar As the wheels on the trucks above are flanged on both sides and owing to the ingenious construo of of the guide trucks below derailment is impossible thereby permitting tho groat speed attained by this system The cars being suspended fourteen feet above the roadway passengers escape the disagreabJo feature of surface roads there is no dust or jolting and perfect immunity from danger of collisions either with vehicles or obstructions ob-structions on roads or streets The electricity is conveyed along a heavy wiro laid in tho shoulder under the head of lower inverted rail and is taken up by the wheels of tho guide trucks This arrangement prevents pre-vents tho possibility of persons or animals or in fact anything except tho motor com ing in contact with tho electric current and thus overcoming the danger of serious accidents ac-cidents The power which runs the cars will also light and if necessary heat them as well as supply enough electricity to light the streets or roadway used The total cost of Generating exclusive of engineers wages will not exceed two dollars per oar per day |