HomeMy WebLinkAbout160 of 1914 - Franchise to Denver And Rio Grande Railroad spur track on 4th West ROLL CALL
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VOTING Yea No - •Salt Lake City,Utah,...,Sept. _24,..._....._.__._.....1914
Shearman
I move that the ordinance be passed.
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Lawrence
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Mr.Chairman
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An ordinance granting to The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
Company, and to its successors and assigns, a franchise and right of way
to construct and operate a single spur railroad track on Fourth West
Street between Eighth and Ninth South Streets, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City,
Utah:
Section 1. i franchise and right of way is hereby given and
granted to The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company, its successors
and assigns, to lay, construct and operate a standard gauge spur rail-
road track on Fourth West Street, between Eighth and Ninth South Streets,
in Salt Lake City, Utah, on a route the center line of which is described
as follows:
Beginning at a point on the center line of the track of the
Salt Lake City Union Depot and Railroad Company, five feet west from
the monument line of Fourth West Street, and about 95 feet south from
the monument line of Eighth South Street, turning out westerly and
extending southwesterly on a 30° curve to the right, a total distance
of about 223 feet,to the west side 1:_ne of Fourth West Street at a point
about 305 feet south from the monument line of Eighth South Street.
The location of said center line over and across Fourth West Street is
shown by a yellow line on the blue print attached hereto and made a
part hereof.
Section 2. During the term of this franchise the grantee shall
be subject to the following conditions:
(a) Said track shall be laid upon and conform to the establishd
grade of said street, and if said grade is afterwards changed by
ordinance of the Board of Commissioners the grantee shall at its own
expense change the elevation of the track to conform thereto.
(b) Whenever the said street where such track is constructed
shall be paved, then said grantee, its successors and assigns, shall
pave between the rails and for a space of two feet outside of each
rail, with the same material as that used in the street pavement, and
all ties shall be laid upon a concrete base of such thickness as shall
be directed by the city engineer.
(o) Said grantee shall put in and maintain such crossings
over said spur track as shall from time to time be required by the
Board of Commissioners, and cars and engines shall not be permitted to
stand on the track across Fourth West Street.
(d) Said track shall be laid and the road operated so as to
cause no unnecessary impediment to the common and ordinary use of said
street upon which it is laid.
(e) Good and sufficient conduits to convey water shall be laid
and maintained in good condition at the expense of said grantee, in
all the water ditches crossed by said spur track, so as to admit of
free passage of water.
(f) Salt Lake City reserves the right to regulate and control
the speed of al] trains, engines and cars operated by the grantee, its
successors or assigns, within the city.
(g) Said grantee, its successors and assigns shall gravel and
maintain in good condition, at the established grade, the street along
which the track runs, to within one and one-half inches of the top of the
rails and. between said rails and on each side of the outer rails, for a
distance of twenty-five feet, subject to the approval of the Superintend-
ent of Streets.
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Section 3. Plothing in this grant shall be construed so as to
prevent Salt Lake City or its authorized agents, contractors, person or
corporation to whom a franchise may have been or may hereafter be
granted, from paving, severing, laying gas or water mains, or pipes,
altering, repairing, or in any manner improving said street, but all
such improvements shall be made with as little injury as practicable to
said spur track and the operation thereof.
Section 4. The said grantee herein, its successors and assigns,
shall, and by the acceptance of the privileges and franchises herein
granted, and in consideration of the same, does bind itself, its
successors and assigns, upon its acceptance of this franchise, to
save said city harmless from all suits, claims, demands and judgments
whatsoever, whether in law or in equity, which shall be asserted,
found or rendered in any manner whatsoever, against said city for
injury or damage to abutting property or otherwgae, by reason of the
granting of this franchise or by reason of the operation of said spur
track; and that the grantee herein, its successors and assigns, will
pay the amount of any judgment, determination or adjudication which, in
any suit or proceeding, may be or shall be found against Salt Lake City,
provided, however, that said grantee, its successors and assigns, shall
have had notice or any such suits, and an opportunity to appear and
defend the same; and said grantee, its successors and assigns, shall
appear in and defend all actions brought against Salt Lake City for any
injury or damage by reason of the construction, operation or mainten-
ance of said spur track.
Section 5. The franchise is granted for a period of twenty-
five years, from and after the approval of this ordinance.
Section 6. Unless this grant and all the terms and conditions
thereof shall be accepted in writing by the grantee within thirty days
and the track constructed within ninety days, from the passage of this
ordinance, the same shall be null and void.
Section 7. This ordinance shall take effect upon its first
publication.
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Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City,
Utah, September 24, 1914.
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