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Show TO PAVE THE STBKKTS. What Material Will be Used to Pva the Street of Halt Lake City? Malcolm Maclood, a mechanical engineer en-gineer of Philadelphia, and the patentee of the Maclcod patent wood block pave ment for thoroughfare, will be in Salt Lake City within a few days for the purpose of trying to introduce his street paving material. Within the last few years, street paving pav-ing has become a very importaut factor to a city's prosperity and growth. In every enterprising city the material to be used for paving its streets is a matter mat-ter of general discussiou, and much scheming. Some claim that asphalt makes the best street pavement, others Bay that stone is and many assert that the wood block is the most desirable. desir-able. Just what material is the best remains to bo seen, but it is more than probable that Salt-Lake will pave her streets, or the greater portion of them, with its home products Utah's asphalt and stone. The council will be. asked to e.vimino the Maclcod wood block pavement which is laid Upon a concrete base. It is on a foundation of stone that the Work is laid. This is covered with tar and gravel, uud upon this ure set the blocks of wood on cud, tightly pressed together. to-gether. The entire pavement is over two feet thick and is said to be as solid as natural rock. At the some time it is smooth and over it the heavy vehicles roll smoothly and nois-e'ly nois-e'ly over it. In this or in any other system, sys-tem, it is claimed by practical paving men, that a good foundation is the first rsqusito for a good and substantial pavement. When Salt Lake City gets to be a place of double its present sizo, the principal streets will have great traffic and what will bn needed for paving material is something that will be substantial sub-stantial andsatisfaotory; amalerial that will bo noiseless as well as desirable. The blocks aro first carbonized, then set neatly on some sort of concrete foundation that is used for tho stone surface already described. Asp halt is then run into tho spaces so as to thoroughly thor-oughly imbed them. After tho blocks are covered with tho tar and gravel, which traffic imbeds into the wood and spaces, tho surface is hardened. The council will soon havo to determine deter-mine upon tho kind of material that the streets are to bo paved with. |