Show SOUTH PAVING There is i something touching in the ther r confidence of ot the First South In the th good faith of o city I ty I administration regarding their 1 for fOI or paving on that important h They asked for a pave lent tent of Utah Itah asphalt only to t find that one olle bidder would offer to do the lie ork and au he asked over oer for tali tah asphalt paving than for the Cali Call material Then a proposal was ladt ade and partially lly adopted u ti t use the tah lali material except at the ions which were wore to be he constructed of ot alifornia distillate in order that the ity might gets its Us share of the work one cheaper Complications have risen so o that in the final analysis if It hf tip work is done at all aI it will probably t deferred for tor another year ear earIt It does not eem to have ha e occurred d to lo tolie lip lie that the city ad adl l is In no position to lo pay pa or its share of the paving this year Either ither afraid or ashamed to confess hi lit fi fA t 1 the council If h I preparing the thea a lot foi a postponement because it Itan annot an not well do anything elase It Ita a on advertising great public V Improvements knowing g that the thel therk l rk t annot be done now and with a eckless ec kless disregard of ot the waste which a S Involved In preliminary estimates ln ring work and arid advertising all r if Pr which will vIll probably have to be done delia ver f r again when the works are finally the First South people fall fail to I I the situation as affecting he use Ube of Utah material The council councils J Js T s much more interested In seeing the contractor do the work than It Its s R to promote the use of native natle asphalt the official contractor finds find it more profitable to use the California than to get asphalt right at athe athe athe r he its s door Moreover the of contracts by b the council the thrown in the way WIY of ot Mo Mons Io Ions nans ns rivals rias the certainty that he will ivill willet willel et el the work anyway has has convinced very Jeo possible competitor that It Is not north while to b against a t him Of our ourse e this enables the successful bid bidle ler le to name his own price as he has hason nn on the till First Firt South job but hut it is the tho least bit hard on the pi ho have to foot the bill hili furiously enough the last election returns show that First South was one 1 if the strong h American districts in inthe Inthe inthe the voting toting and ought to get the most favored treatment at the hands of or the Administration Possibly it would if the Interests of the voters voter did not hap happen happen pen to conflict with tho the Interests of the contractor In any event the men interested in securing the pavement arc are getting some homo valuable Information at Qt first hand as to the kind of admin administration they elected |