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ORDINANCE N0. /9~l/~ <br />AN ORDINANCE GRANTING TD THE BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY, A <br />DELAWARE CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, THE FRANCHISE TO MAIN- <br />TAIN ITS RAILWAY TRACKS OVER CERTAIN STREETS IN THE CITY OF EUGENE, AND <br />TO OPERATE TRAINS AND CARS THEREOVER, AND TO TRANSPORT PASSENGERS, <br />FREIGHT, MAIL, BAGGAGE, AND EXPRESS THEREON, AND TO MAINTAIN ITS PRESENT <br />POLES AND WIRES OVER CERTAIN STREETS IN THE CITY OF EUGENE, OREGON. <br />THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: <br />Section 1. That there be and hereby is granted to BURLINGTON NORTHERN <br />RAILROAD COMPANY, a Delaware corpvrativn, its successors and assigns, the <br />franchise and right to lay, construct, and maintain its present tracks and <br />its present sidings, switches, curves, and connections, and to operate and <br />run trains and cars thereaver, and to transport passengers, freight, mail, <br />baggage, and express thereon, subject to the following restrictions and upon <br />the following named streets and places in the City of Eugene, Oregon, T4 WIT: <br />Across all intervening streets southerly and easterly of the intersec- <br />tion of the right-of-way of the BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY and <br />the northern city limits of the City of Eugene, and extending southeast- <br />erly to the easterly line of the intersection of Grant Street and 5th <br />Avenue, including the crossings of Grant Street, Garfield Street, <br />Roosevelt Boulevard, Side Street, Bethel Drive and Prairie Road. <br />Together with the right and privilege of maintaining and reconstructing~on <br />all the streets above described, such wyes, frogs, switches, curves, and <br />connections, as said BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY, its successors and <br />assigns may deem necessary or convenient in the maintenance or replacement of <br />,. <br />its present equipment, without in anywise extending the same. And that there <br />be and there is hereby also granted to said BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD <br />COMPANY, its successors and assigns, the right tv re-erect, reconstruct, and <br />maintain poles, wires, and other necessary and convenient equipment for the <br />purpose of preserving and maintaining its present equipment for conveying <br />power and electrical current for its awn use, all upon the streets heretofore <br />