Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-11-17 | Page 7 | City Statistician Gives out Figures on Street Paving

STATISTICIAN I i GIVES OUT FIGURES A ESt ON STREET PAVING W Estimates e Given i in ii Statement Do Not Gibe With Facts t Also Mentioned The he ne newly appointed et city statistician yesterday Issued a statement to accompany pan jany pany a table prepared b by the he et city en engineers engineer's engineers engineer's en- en office The table enumerates in n detail various facts about the pay pay- ng tug ng contracts let l by b the city for tor the past flast two twenty two years The table Isan is in an n elaborate one In IU his Imla commentary on the tIme table the cl city statistician says among other othel things I The total yardage as shown b by the table for 1912 aggregates and tho the cost of ot the same when completed Hl will according to the time contracts let for topping and concrete base amount to amount jt 34 t Had the 1911 average price prevailed pre pro aUed this year the time statistician has hasas has as elsewhere stated that the average era e erice rice price In 1911 was 47 the cost would have amounted to Hence ence the et city commission b by the time prices which it secured have in the time of ot the time table herewith effected a. a saving saving in iii the time one Item Iem alone of ot 78 8 This representing about 50 per ent of ot the tile work worl It I is a safe sate tion ton that the aggregate saving when he excavation and miscellaneous items Hems ire re tJ taken en Into consideration will willI wi I mount to more than in street paving ving this year ear The AThe ef city statistician thus thins has figured hat that if it the amount of ot paving done last rear ear ear had been no greater than is pro pro- Merl for this year eal namely lamel square quare yards the time cost to the city would have ave 1 0 been teen at the lie prices that prevailed prO aled ast att year er I In his lila next paragraph raph of ot In par commentary cormen- cormen I tary ary ar the ct city statistician says sas I The total yardage for 1911 was k OOH and the actual total cost was for tor the topping and concrete con- con crete base basc That Is close to 60 0 moro more square ards of ot paving Ing done clone la last pa was as t year ear or the city for tor close to less than he city statistician figures this years year's carl would have o ha cost cOll at al the time averO averA aver A go O price of ot last year ear f In his next paragraph the tIme cH city stats statis- statis Ician says i 1 Had the tho 1912 average price urlee pro- pro aIled last year ear tho ti-mo saving in that Ii I would have been on be be topping and base and approximate approximate- y on the entire amount of the The saving ln la on less hess Jes than yards ards at on topping topping and baso I d 1 on the time whole street pay pay- g while on more than 1 yards ar s is figured at nt only and 00 respectively The city statistician does docs not de- de nbc ribe the time method by iy which ho lie arrived the time average prices or the deduc- deduc J. J ons ens he lie makes from them