Show CITY ROADS ARE STRANGE THINGS They Conform to No Particular Standard and ad ald Violate All Al Rules IS IT SCHEME FOR ASPHALT Course Taken Suggests Those Thos Interested Are Attempting to Discredit Broken Stone Substitute Expensive Hot lOot Noisy Asphalt mid Concrete for Cor Morn More Desirable People are Ire beginning to wonder what U It 1 Is that tho the city road makers aro 11 am really real trying to do What can be tho purpose of the thela lay layIng Ing log of oC roads reads that Iha t are already aready con condemned condemned condemned by experience At least one part of o tho the answer to this question queston Is forthcoming ng Thero appears to be bo a sort of ot understanding among certain members of the Iho council the cIty engineer other city and ald a n number of leading citizens that macadamized roads arc nrc to bo ho 10 proved a failure so that in the future they th the can be bo wholly discarded Macadamized roads cost from irom to 7 per foot Coot let tot us say sa asphaltum rondo say tny from 10 to 15 per foot Coot The chance for profit It t will w not not do to say sa sa rake off Is more moro than twice as os great greal In the tho case ene of or the moro more expensive than thanIn In that of ot the th cheaper roads loads Besides lie tho th owners of automobiles prefer thu tho th asphalt and that ought to settle It So much for lor the tho present present Other Oilier reasons may mo bo ho o presented in due duo time Mean Meanwhile lean MeanwhIle while let lei us look again at lt tho ho city pavements WHAT TIlE THE HE PEOPLE PI SEE Many readers reador of or the tho tl News Now have taken a careful look at nt the city cl work of oC macadamizing along the avenues since the Iho appearance of these articles calling caninG attention to the Iho faulty taul meth methods methods of ot construction and amid the unsuitable laturo of ot lh thi t used mod In this work All Al agree that lint tho the construction of the tho new nel loads does not follow Colow either of the th standard methods or Macadams Tho ratios rodas now building are nondescript things that IhM cannot be bo classified They Th do not conform to any anything an anything thing In way of ur authority and the question queston Is II what are aro the city elt road makers maker especially the engineer er try iry tr trIng trying Ing ng to lo get Got at There lucre must be somo sonie thing thing at the Iho bottom of It this thil unexampled persistence In wrongdoing What can canI it I bo boTO TO ro MACADAM 1 Thin Tho Th most plausible suggestion yet et mado made Is la that thin whole proceeding Is Isan Isan Isan an attempt to discredit utterly the Iho brok pavements for or city work vork hero here her hereafter after so that tha In the future no more mora streets will wiil wi bo he le laid but Jill all ni street paving will lihi wl be of f tho the con croto such nn as 18 Is now nol used or being laid on the center streets of tho the city cl where the tle traffic Is heavIest lest esl Iest This suggestIon led the the reporter to o a new now line of Investigation Aro Are the he either the thc macadam or tho lie tolford variety really realy good Toad roads antI and should they to o be he laid In Salt Lake ko City Cly The Tha answer to thie tM e questions the result or of actual will wi appear hater aler in tn this paper It I Is 15 emphatically In iii n the STONE THE TIlE BEST DEST Not much Investigation was necessary r ry to this Ibis point Broken stone pavements are ure now nol almost universally preferred In suburban localities where is not excessively heavy hf y When hen well wel laid ink they the are arc found to answer every requirement Of a n paved street Tho The authorities agree arree that when whon the tho rock Is hard tough cemented with the tho mortar formed formell from rain Its Is own dust duet brok broken en Into pieces not larger than Vi Inch Inches es Cs In and together by heavy hOlvy rolling after being properly it I makes the tho most pleasant and desirable of ot all 11 forms of suburban roads It IH iii from the standpoints of ot cost sanitation freedom from Crom rUin under traffic ease case for the homes feet feel feeland and coolness In iii summer Rummer time lime the Iho best road yet yel constructed These are all al very 01 Important considerations nod tin th Ih net fact that tho thu macadamized roads best beat meet neot shows that th they y are arc better than any uny un other outer kind wherever the Is not so eo heavy ns as to make mu k then them undesirable from Crom their rapid wearing out alit Olt In such situations WHAT ARE ABE A E OUn OUR Nobody can say what our roads are They The are arc ar not for or the tho are arc arl of oC all al IzO Those just raked oft on 01 the thin newly finished roads by b the Uio man with wih the tho hoe ho measure from froni I 1 to 8 I IndIes In iii the tha tUI largest diameter thus being holl from 2 to H 4 Inches larger than ho tue limit of ot size alzo allowed by lams rules nut from Hi Hr 1 to 3 above the Iho allowed by ly modern Neither arc lr they telford roads tot for they have lavo no foundation These Theno largo large pieces ire are not assorted und lint put at nt tile tho bottom hut lul aro are Irregularly with wih tho the small The writer wrier hiss has not found more moro moreover moreover over that macadam or on 01 telford construction while upon our city roads rondo now nol building on eli 01 tho the avenues a 1 largo large not mint to say nay u a I quantity of o fir or I Unary gravel Irel pebbles Is In fount found the Jio material over Iho tho surface suruco OK fM TillS THIS OnA VEL The Tho presence of thin snivel m vel not hot wholly ly h y Croo coo froni ordinary soil ot tho ho lie writer wrier nn ns ho lie saw fuw taw It lying on aim 01 tho the surfeit BUrCIO of oC tho road 1011 How low citino imo it there ther What Is II it I for Cor or ny my 1 or Improvement No nothing of this lila Hort lImply carelessness An Au In If of if the thu Ih source of oC l lIla thu 11 net In t that on en top tOl of oC the tho rock In Is n a 1 deep layer of or und and earth u paste unto material on en I tre until unlit for tor road roud construction But Butt luI 1 IL t IH Is nil al mixed with wih lila broken mono monon lii In n the tho elena along with wih a I good 0 U ill n nil rocks that could coul never flavor bind bild Into n a I ma nun macadam cadam roud with wih lie tho ordinary rock dust dual dUI tar for rol In tact fact nothing short sont of if IC Portland cement would bind bitI In II these and end rounded cobblestones Jut lut hero luero they thoy und and rounded nil thrown to 10 to In mako lule a sort nort rt nf of o filling filing and androver Int or nr rover precedent for tor u it 1 rood road Hint III l is II without iame 1111 |