49 of 1902 - Ordinance 49 of 1902 – Franchise, granting right of way thru certain streets of Salt Lake City to Dile No. 11 All ORDI]e/eNCE, Granteng a Right-of-Way through
certain str,-cts of Salt Lake City to the Oregon short Line Railroad
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De it ordained by t:1O City Council Of Salt 'she city, Utah;
Section 1. Thet t3:..e Oregon Short Line Relleoed (etre, ny, its euceeeors
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line of the Rio Grande Western Railway Company, beginning at a point
of connection with its present track now located and operated in Fourth
West street, most convenient and near the intersection of First North
street, and extending thence southerly along said Fourth West street
to a point near the intersection of Eighth South street, and thence
curving to the easterly crossing of said Eighth and Ninth South streets
to a point Of connection with the present railway track of the Oregon
Short Line Railroad Company at a point three hundred feet more or less
south of the southerly line of said Ninth South street.-
Section 2. During the term of this franchise the said grantee
shall be subject to the following conditions, viz: First, That said
railway track shall be laid upon and conform to the established grade
of the several streets upon which it may be laid, and if said grade is
afterwards changed by order of the City Council, the said grantee shall
at its own expense change the said track so as to conform to the same,
and shall keep the said road ballasted, and shall, between Eighth South
and First North Streets, keep the road. ballasted with gravel to within
two inches of the tops of the rails, provided that whenever any of the
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streets along which the said railway is built, shall be paved, then
said grantee, its seccessors and assigns, shall pave bet ;con tee
rails and for a ssace of two feet outside of each rail, with the sane
material as that used in the etreet pavement.
Second. Said grantee shall put in and maintain such crossings
where the line of said railway track intersects the streets of said
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city as shall be required by the City Council.
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Third. That said track shall be laid and. the road operated so as
to cause no unnecessary impediment to the cola on and ond-i.nary use of
said streets upon which it is laid, except as hereinbefore provided.
Fourth. Good and sufficient boxes to convey water shall be laid. •
and maintained in good condition, at the expense of said grantee,
at all the water ditches crossed by said railway track, so as to admit
of the free passage of water.
Section 3. The rights and franchises hereby granted and confirmed
are for the term of one hundred years from and after the passage of
this ordinance.
Section 4. This ordinance and the franchise hereby granted, is
subject to the limitation,that, if at any the the said Oregon Short
Line Railroad Company, and the Rio Grande Western Railway Company, shall
construct a Union Passenger Depot at any .Joint on the line of the fran-
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chise hereby granted along said Fourth West street, that, both the said
Rio Grande Western Railway Company and the said Oregon Short Line Rail-
road Company, shall reciprocally have the right to trackage privileges
over the lines of each, on Fourth West street, which shall be convenient
and necessary for all the ;purposes of such Union Passenger Depot, as the
same shall be prescribed by any ordinance authorizing the construction
of said depot. (Also subject to limitation, that, if such Union Pas-
senger Depot shall not be constructed by said companies as aforesaid,
the said Oregon Short Line Railroad Company will suffer and permit its
track, laid in accordance with the franchise hereby granted, to be in-
tersected and crossed,by the track of the Rio Grande Western Railway
company, at all proper and necessary places on the line of its said
franchise on Fourth West street, to enable the said Rio Grande Western
Railway Company to reach its passenger depot should such depot be
erected east of the track covered by this franchise).
And subject to the further limitation and condition that if such
Union Passenger Depot shall not be constructed by said companies, that
the said Oregon Short Line Railroad Company shall within two years from
the passage of this ordinance erect a passenger depot in Salt Lake
City adequate for the accommodation of the traveling public upon its
road; said depot to cost not less than one hundred thousand dollars;
and to secure the performance of this condition said Oregon Short
Line Railroad Company -hall execute to/SaltLake City a bond with good
and suff_icien-t ..toolapaitaatAoz in the sum of fifty thousand dollars,
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conditioned that said sum shall be forfeited and paid to the said city
in consideration of this franchise, in the event of the failure of
said railroad Company to erect such depot within the said time.
Section 5., This ordinance shall take effect upon approval.
Passed by the City Council df Salt Cake City Utah, May 13th, 1902,
and referred to the Mayor for his aporov
City _ecorder.
Aporoved this ______day of May, 1902. 1
Mayor.
Vetoed by the `.ayor and a5e,in om.sed by two-thins^of
(-the City Council
hay 20, 1902..
President of City Council.
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