Show PAVING SCHEME IS DISAPPROVED Mayor Bransford Decides to Veto First South Street Contract PROPERTY OWNERS FAULT SQUABBLING NG OVER BRINGS ABOUT RESULT Mayor John S Bransford has decided to veto the contract passed by tHe council counell last Monday evening for Hie e paving t f First t South street The veto will be submitted to the council at its meeting Monday evening and will probably be approved by that body It Is now up to the council to pub publish lish Ish notice of intention for Cor paving paring that street again and to go to the trouble of or advertising for bids or award the contract to H P P J Moran under his bid for Utah asphalt which is It is probable that the latter course will be pursued because if it the contract is s trot not awarded soon the street will wilt not be paved for two or possibly three years Visited by Delegation The mayor action was taken after he ho had hM been visited by a delegation of pf property owners yesterday headed by J H Moyle and Dr T B Beatty eatty The contract proved approved by the council pro v ides that wherever Utah asphalt is de demanded demanded it shall be laid but that the intersections and all other places shall with the California product This contract was agreed upon as a compromise but tha mayor believes that if it was vas carried out it would be beI I too much of a patchwork job and there therefore therefore therefore fore decided to veto it in its entirety History of Trouble Two property owners seem to be to bl for the failure to pave the street streett Vt t first there was a squabble as to whether macadam m cadam or asphalt should be used Utah asphalt was finally decided upon after alter a year rear of fighting and no notice tice tic tk of intention for this his product was published and carried Moran was the only bidder and he h submitted a bid for both Utah and California asphalt the latter being the product which has given giyen so much satisfaction on the Salt Lake streets for tor years past The bid for tor California alifornia asphalt was wa and for Utah The board of pub public pu lie lic 11 works awarded the contract for Cal California California asphalt despite the notice of intention and the property owners would have consented and Moran would have hae now been at work on the street had L C Miller lIller and G E Kiser not protested They came before the coun counCil Cil a finance committee where the mat matter matter ter was under consideration and de declared that they would fight the lay lar laying layng ing ng of California asphalt although all the th rest ret of the property owners were v willing illing that material be used They w anted Utah asphalt and took up the committees time for tor two meetings Did Not Want Patchwork It was decided then that it would not bp b safe to award the contract for or Cali Call California California fornia asphalt contrary to the notice of intention and the scheme of letting each block decide what kind it wanted vas as hit upon and passed This how however hower however ever er did not meet with favor with the dt legation delegation which visited the mayor yesterday esterday As they asserted they were willing to have the street paved with either ither one or the other of the mate materials materials materials rials but did not nor want a patchwork joo jon This was enough for the mayor ma or and aid he informed them that he would veto to the contract As a result of the efforts of Mr Ir Kiser and Mr Miller Ie 1 it is probable that the itah tab asphalt contract will be let to Moran under his bid and that the property owners along the street will have to pay more for the work than if these gentlemen had remained at home and not protested |