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HomeMy WebLinkAbout00598Xz: AN ORDINANCE granting the r ight of way to Tile Pueblo Trac- tion and Lighting Company over, upon, a�_ong and across certain streets in t' :e City .���' Pueblo, in the State of Colorado. BE IT OIMAI= BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PUMA: Sec.l. That The Pueblo Traction and Lighting Co - pany, its - cessors and assi ms, is ?lereby granted the right of way -.nd all suits :ble, incidental and appropriate franchises acid privi- lees, to construct, niaintain and o by electricity, a system of street railways for the transportation of pa,s. en ;ers, over, u��on, a` d 1oro the center of the streets of t'.•_le City of Pueblo, in the State of Color =tdo, hereinafter :mentioned, with the rLiat to lay single or double tracks as t'ne .needs of the Co-ng.a.ny nay require, toy et'ner with the necessary turnouts, swttc'nes, side tracks and ot''aer cappli- antes, machinery and apparatus over, upon mid along said streets, with tae additional rig-it to' operate and- ; mintain said tracts ean rolling stock t , by means of what is known as the overhead or trolley wire electric system. See.2. Said Company shall have the right to erect a.11 necessa- ry poles and stri ig and put in place all necessary wires, app �r'.tus and other attacll:t gents suitable or ?roper for th successful opera- tion of said system of tracks, said poles, however, to be erected along the sides of said streets acid in such r.1oaiuier as not to fere with the existing poles and wires of any tel egra. -L, tele��hc—:.e e or electric co_rraalf now occupying said streets, aria t'.ie sUJ City shall_ have the privilege, without cost, of strifiging tirires for .id in connection with its police and fire departments, on and a.lo said poles, and to operate tree Sec.3. The said The Pueblo Traction and Li jating Conpany s i.a.l_ -2- have the right to substitute for the overhead or trolley aire ,1pc- tric system, the storaSe battery electric syste(n., or any new or improved rleohsnical motive power which may be here after ' and invented, in case ' -',e same may be foun;i recess -�.,ry or advis= i') by said Company; provided, tl.a,t any chanE-,es in the preset trolley system of propelling its cars, siial.l not be more urdenso_.-ie to t'_._e streets, property otmners and the citizens, than that now in use. Sec 4. The streets upon, aloizg area over which tie easeir�ents, privileges at fr3 ic-'riises aforesaid, are -erein granted, are as follows: - Commencin, at the intersection of Evans Avenue Central Street in said City of Pueblo; t1ae::ce South along said EvF - Avenue to the intersection thereof w-'_th Indiana Avenue; t:r:ence West said Indiana. Avenue to the intersection t*,.ereof with Or, Avenue. Also conmiencing at the intersection of Routt Avenue and Cazirtl Street in said City of Pue'olo; thence East along said Car. 7 Street to the intersection taereof with Abriendo Avenue; t.ence Nortl, said Abriendo Avenue to t "le intersection thereof with Bay St Ite Street; Vdence tilest along said Bay State Street to the inter,,ect]. )r. thereof with Lva is Avenue. Sec.5. The said Co:- ipany, its succes ,ors id a.ssigls, s.i :311 not char -e more than five cents for any single fare for ri(iin; on its cars within the corporate limits of the said City of Pueblo. Sec.6 Said Company shall, whenever re(Taired by re o1ut on :>:.zly passed by a majority of all the members of the cou,-lci elect, put in culverts under its tracks at street crossings, of such - ,raterial as may be used for the sa: ie kind of culverts by the City t) Pueblo . Sec.7. Said Company s -'I ll lay its tracks to the established -r-�de of the street and s,iall raise or lower its tracks from tirie to ti zer -3- to conform to the grade of the street as be deered ex.,edient by the City CoLuicil, as ,. be eV .denced by resolution o Vie city council ?assed by a .:'..jority of t'.,e �- tubers elect. ►taeinever ordered or directed by trye said City, t o said Cor7:- pany s':iall plank on either side of its rails at public cros:.i_aUs, and at all tunes izeep the surface between said rails at such ings E..nd for one foot on either side of such rails t'aere�; in --ood suitable condition for all kinds of travel taereon and t:.'lereover: . ti Sec.8. Wherever, by resolution or ordinal-ice of VI City Coun- oil duly passed, the City may deterrrline that my of said street or streets be paved, the said The pueblo Traction and Liglltin,�; Conp<.ny its success-,ors and assigns, shall and will cause to be paved oil t':e portion or portions of such street or streets upon which tie r:i - is herein given to construct avid _:?aintain its tracKs, i lie bet the rails of said tracks, =grid for the distance of one (1) foot on the outer side of each of said rails, to be paved at the e _- pease of t e said Company, its successors .md assigns. In the evert that such paving is done by or yaerfor ned under tie orders of t;-ie City of Pueolo, by contract or otherwise, t„en t " -e said Coi pany sn<:,ll pay, or cause to be paid, all tf e expense �, c' r- - es and costs of paving between the rail-3 of said tracks, aid for one, foot on the outer side of e.F,clh rail, and in case the said Co:.,lp;.ny shoal do or cause to be done t�-e said pavin, it .,mall do so in the m,.ni.er and form as may now or hereafter be prescribed by law or - by the ordinances of t-.e said City. Sec.9 The said Company s'iall lay, construct and have in opera,- Lion at least one track upon, along i over each of t'-(-, streets hereinbefore naar.ed to which this ordinance relates, witr.in a Period of one year from and after this ordinance siva.11 E-o into effect, {a all rights, pri.vileLres zrml_ franchises hereinbefore granted cease and determine ss to ar.y u comp:Leted r:ortion of saitl track -�t -4- t_ie expiration o f tI time 1z ---,t aforej Sec .10. Said Coif zany cOI` 3 Y with all ti;-e or, es re,gu'.n.t -I or lJow in force, or the 4 ay hereof ter by is e said City. Sec.11. That after the construction P,,l completion of its track upon t_ e S,-j --Ld street or .--!treetcY,, the Said Col, cny sl�,nl", there,.fter continue to operate its cars tiereover at rettsonab2e intervO 1 tweell tlie I'Lour-s Of :sever. O'clock A.M. and ten o'clock P.1 Sec.12. This ordinance and - ,11 the rights n rind - fr;5 _ j _ere - in granted, tD sh�7,11 be end rennin in force from and -,-;.fter its until April. 9, 1940, and not lonpler.