329 of 1900 - Ordinance 329 of 1900 – Franchise to Salt Lake Valley R. R. Co. to construct and operate street ra AN ORDTNATTCF, Granting to the Salt Lake Valley Railway Company,
its successors and assigns, a right to construct, maintain, use and
operate a street railway on certain streets, avenues and public places
in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Section 1. Be it, and it is hereby, enacted and ordained by
the Common Council of Salt Lake, Utah, that consent, permission and
authority are given, granted and duly vested in the Salt Lake Valloy
Railway Company, a corporation organized and,existing under the laws of
the State of Utah, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain
and operate a street railway, with all the appurtenances to said railway
belonging, in and along and through the streets, roads, public lands and
highways hereinafter designated, upon the following terms and conditions,
to-wit:
Section 2. The route of said railway shall be as follows:
Commencing at the center of First West Street and center of Second South
Street; running thence north on center of said First West Street 7400
feet; thence north 29 degrees 50 minutes west, 370 feet, over open space
to south side of Warm Springs property; thence north 20 degrees 50
minutes west, 1130 feet, through Warm Springs property; thence north 37
degrees 40 minutes west through old gravel pit, and to the east side of
the county road 940 feet; thence north 24 degrees 40 minutes west along
east side of county road 1430 feet; thence north 43 degrees 45 minutes
west, crossing county road and running on the west side of traveled road
and on west side of sewer and parallel with the same 5922 feet; thence
north 3 degrees 58 minutes west, crossing county road and running on the
east side of the road and sewer and parallel with the same 2798 feet;
thence north 40 degrees 15 minutes east, running over sewer and through
Hot Springs Hill 100 feet east of Springs; thence north 28 degrees 30
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minutes east, along east side of county road; thence north 6 degrees 30
minutes east along east side of said county road, 1290 feet to city
limits, or boundary line between Salt Lake and Davis Counties.
Section 3. Said Railway Company may lay a single or double
tract with such turnouts and switches as shall be necessary. The tracks
of sail Railway Company shall be laid to a guage of four feet and one-
half inches, and shall be constructed of "T" rails of a weight of not less
than seventy pounds to the linear yeard.
Section 4. Said track or tracks shall be laid along the
center of the street, except when otherwise directed by the City Council,
and so that it will conform to the tirade of such street as established by
the city Engineer? If at any place any street or streets shall not be
up to grade, that part occupied by the said track, and for a sufficient
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distance on etlllr side to make the street passable, must be brought to a
grade by and at the expense of the said Railway Company, its successors
and assigns. Where streets are paved said Railway Company, its successors
or assigns, shall pave between the rails of said tracks and between
double tracks, or side tracks and main track with such material as the
City Council may direct, and for a space extending from the rails six
inches beyond the end of the ties.
Section -4( The said Railway Company, its successors and
• assigns, shall have the right to do an interurb'an express business, and
may carry farm produce, milk, merchandise and other light freight for
, hire on the railway.hereby authorized to be consucte.d, and shall be
allowed to load and unload such light freight and \interurban express
matter only at such places as shall be designated b,y the Common Council
of Salt Lake.
Section fl. The said Reilwa? Company, its successors and
assins shall hag, the right to employ, as a means of traction, an over-
head trolly wire system of electricty with all the necessary poles and
wires.
• Section 7. The said Railway Company shall repair so much of
all streets, crosswalks, gutters and water courses, as shall be disturbed
during the construction of said street railway, and shall at all tiles,
keep in good repair.the space between the rails and for a space next
outside of the rails, extending six inches beyound the end of the ties.
Section 8. That nothing in this grant shall be construed to
as to prevent from paving, sewering, laying gas or water pipes, alteri', ;
repairing, or in any manner improving any of the streets mentioned
herein, or any other streets of said city; but all such improvements
shell be made with as little injury as practicable to said railway aryl
the operating thereof.
Section 0, That in the construction and operating of said
railway, the said grantees and their successors and assigns, shall at
all ti:'es conform to such ordinances, rules and regulations as have beea
or hereafter may be adopted by said City Council of said city in relation
to operating electric street railways in said city, and for each violatic
thereof they shall be liable to a fine in any sum not exceeding one
hundred dollars,
Section 10. That this franchise is granted for the term of
fifty (50) years from the date of the passage of this ordinance.
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Section 11. The rate of fare to be charged by the said rail-
way Company, its successors and assigns, shall be five cents for the
Carriage of a single passenger within the limits of,.ad Salt Lake City.
Section 12. The rights and franchises herein granted and
tested shall become binding upon the written acceptance of the Salt Lake
Walley Railway Company, filed with the City Clerk of Salt Lake City
4 hin thirty days next after the date hereof.
Section 13, The railway herein provided for, shall be com-
pleted and put in operation one year next after the date hereof; other-
wise this ordinance, with all its provisions herein embodied, shall be
it144.,1,,nd void.
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