HomeMy WebLinkAbout124 of 1906 - Ordinance 124 of 1906 – Franchise, granting permission to H. P. Clark to construct and operate an AN ORDINANCE granting permission to H. P. Clark to construct
and operate an urban and suburban railroad through Salt Lake
City.
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of Salt Lake
City, to-wit:-
Sec. 1. That H. P. Clak of Salt Lake City, Utah,
as Trustee for a corporation to be formed under the laws of
the State of Utah, has the sithority and consent of the City
Council, and permission is hereby granted him, for the con-
struction, maintenance and operation of a single or double track,
standard gauge railroad to be operated by electricity or other
motive power excepting steam, as hereinafter specified, together
with all necessary and convenient switches, wyes for turnouts,
side tracks and cross over tracks, and a line of poles, or
two lines of poles when necessary, carrying telephone, tele-
graph, trolley, feeder and transmission wires for the transporta-
tion of passengers, freight, express and mail matter upon the
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following roads and streets of Salt Lake City, to-wit ,
A single or double track beginning on the west line
of Main Street at the intersection of Second South Street and
running thence west along Second South Street to Second West
Street; thence south on Second West Street to Fourth South
Street; thence west along Fourth South Street to the Jordan
River; and thence westerly over the most direct line along
streets and alleys to the western boundary of the City.
Also beginning at the northerly end of Marion
Boulevard, in Kinney and Gourlrey's Improved City plat, and
running thence south along Marion Boulevard to Ninth North
Street, thence east along Ninth North Street to Eighth West
Street, thence south along Eighth West Street to the south
boundary of the City.
Sec. 2. All tracks shall be laid so as to conforIi e
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with the grades of the streets at the time, and shall be alter-
ed so as to conform to such grade as the city council may from
time to time establish.
Sec . 3. Said grantee or his assigns shall keep in
good repair the paving in the spaces between the rails and at
least two feet on the outside of each rail, so as not to
interfere with the street for public use, excepting on parked
portions of streets described below, and, if required; shall
pave such space and side portions with the same material as
the street i.,, composed of, and in case of double tracks, space
between the tracks.
Said grantee and his assigns shall, when directed
by the city council, plat and improve into a park a portion of
any or all of the streets(-+ ^f Tigb+u w.^tG+rrnt)upon which
grantee's road is constructed. Said parked portion shall be
feat , a .ith ^d enclosed by a
line of curbing with the tracks in the center of said space,
leaving cross roadways at each intersecting street, and
intermediate driveways not further than 330 feet apart.
The grantee shall furnish and plant trees of the kind and at
intervals to be designated by the city council, and shall plant.
with grass, and keep in good order, the space between the
curbing and lines two feet outside of the outer rails of the
track. Said grantee and his assignee shall keep said trees
and grass In good order, provided the city shall furnish
water for the same free of charge. All of the above improve-
ments shall be established and maintained by the grantee under
general specifications, rules and regulations of the city coun-
cil.
Sec . 4. Cars shall be run over the whole of said ?- ,
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line or lines at least once every hour, making stops at street
intersections, between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., or as
often as public necessity may require, unless prevented by
floods, snows, riots, strikes, wars or any causes beyond
grantee's control. Fare for transportation shall not exceed
five cents for one continuous ride my the system within the
limits of Salt Lake City .h No freight shall he hauled east
of the east line of Eighth West Street except between the hours
of midnight and 6 a.m. Al]. express and mail matter trans-
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of t'ie same general outer design and finish as the passenger
cars, same to be arranged so as to entirely enclose the loaded
matter, and such cars, if operated in trains, shall have not
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more than one trail car to each motor car ` t� „ ,. 2oi
Sec. 5. The City reserves the right to regulate
and control the speed of all cars or trains transported over
said. road.
Sec. 6 . The right hereby conferred shall expire
on! the lst day of January in the year One Thousand Nine Hundred
and Fifty-Six.
Sec. 7. That on paved streets such rails shall be
used as may be designated by the city council.
Sec. 8. rood and sufficient boxes to convey water
shall he made and maintained in good condition at the expense
of said grantee at all the water ditches crossing the said
railway so as to admit of the free passage of water.
Sec. 9. Said. City of Salt Lake shall in no way be
liable or responsible for any accident or damage that may occur-
on said road by reason of the default or misconduct of said
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railway company or its employes. And the said grantee and his
assigns covenant and agree to save the city harmless from an
against any liability, loss, cost or expense or damage of any •
nature arising out of the default or misconduct of said
railway company, or which may accrue by reason of any accident
or injury which. may occur in or by reason of the construction:
or operation of said railway, and to indemnify and repay said
city for any loss, cost or expense or damage of any kind which
may be sustained by reason of any such default, misconduct,
accident, or danger; and if any judgment for damages for any,
loos, default, misconduct, accident or injury, shall be
recovered against said city, the recovery thereof, and the
judgment thereof, shall be final as between said city and said
grantee and his assigns, and conclmsive as to the liability
of the latter to the former.
Sec. 10. That whenever the city council shall
find it necessary or desirable to grant any other railroad
company a franchise over any of the streets herein granted,
the grantee herein shall allow running arrangements over
grantee's tracks to such other company making equitable pay-
ment for constructing, maintaining and operating the portion
of said grantee's tracks so used. Provided that easterly of
Second West Street no additional tracks shall he laid on any
street where two tracks already exist .
Sec. 11. That if this grant with the conditions
herein contained be not accepted in_ writing by said grantee
within thirty days after the passage of this ordinance, then
the said franchise shall become null and void. Work shall be
begun under this franchise within thirty days, and cars shall.-
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be operated within nine months.
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