Show Street Pavements In Fait Lake city we find one of the few cities of twentyfive thousand or ever population that has not yet a paved street Consequently the matter of pavements is one of vital interest When President Young and Orson Pratt laid out Salt Lake city they very wisely rave us wide streets and made it resemble Washington in being a city of magnificent distances Very wrong indeed are those croakers who demand narrower streets the future will show the wisdom of the policy pursued forty years ago The folly of narrow streets is very well exemplified by Sixteenth street Omaha I carries an immense traffic the street is so narrow that it usually presents the appearance ap-pearance of a procession going up the eastside east-side of the street and another coming down the west side The consequence is that the wheels all follow in nearly the same track and therefore wear out the pavement in the wheel racks before the rest is worn scarcely all and the whole pavement must fee replaced every few years Were the street wider the wheels would wear it out more equally and the pavement last fully three imps as long on this score alone Of course besides this a wider pavement would last longer in proportion to its width with equal traffic Now how shall we dispose of he extra width that is not present neces ary but will be when the city grows larger I would suggest that the sidewalk on one side of the street be 30 feet and the other the upper side be made 50 feet for the present This to apply to all but the business portion of the busiest streets Then the curb could be set on the lower side of the street so that waste water would run off properly and the upper side eccive only a temporary curb In this way let these streets be paved Whenever in after years the travel demands a wider street the other 30 feet can ba added almost as easily as to pave it at first From this rule I would exempt Main street from North Temple to Fifth South State road from First South to Third South West Temple from South Temple to Third South South Temple First South Second South and Third South between be-tween West Temple and State road or to Second East street Other portions of streets could be widened as needed As to material we find much diversity of opinion We have t choose from granite sandstone asphaltum brick cedar blocks and shale Stone pavement is too noisy for a main street In Omaha Farnam street is paved with granite and the noise is intolerable Douglass street the next north is paved with asphalt and is almost noiseless ando and-o this wo attribute largely the steady growth of business on that street The busiest streets where property is lighpriccd can be paved properly without taxes being at all high Then we should choose for these streets the best pavement without paying so much attention to comparative first cost as on ho other streets For these streets stone I is out of the question on account of its noise great wear on vehicles and rough ness for rapid traveling cedar blocks arc not adapted to heavy traffic brick would be an experiment and under very heavy traffic would break up and be dusty Shale is too dusty and rough for business streets and should not now be placed on First South street Then for these streets J would recommend asphaltum pavement as far the best There are one or two streets that should be paved with stone One street to each depot from the busi ne3S centre should be so paved and heavy trucks and freight wagons be forced t drive on these streets when loaded For instance ThirdSouth street to the D H G depot and South Temple to the Utah Central < depot With granite so cheap granite should be used on these streets The streets named to be left full width should therefore be all paved with aspha turn except the two streets named for granite pavement For residence streets the choice will be for reasons mentioned between asphalt brick cedar blocks and shale We would advise on these streets that a few blocks on parallel streets be paved with each material and the comparative tive merits be thus tested for after use We would suggest then that Brigham street as the best drive be paved with asphalt for a few blocks east from the business portion That Second South be paved with shale Third South with cedar blocks and Fourth South with brick each for say three blocks at first Shale seems to offer a solution of the pavement question for streets that cannot can-not stand much expense but should not be allowed on the business street Asphalt is rather costly but propertyowners wishing to make their streets choice drives will find it the best material Cedar blocks will be largely an experiment as many like them and many do not like them Brick would bo altogether an experiment But if the right kind of clay can be found here as at Bloomington Bloom-ington IlL and many other cities they will prove a cheap and gocd pavement I think the clay tound at tho end of the Sat Lake A Fort Douglas railway in Red Butte canon or in Emigration caOon about one half mile above tho California brewery would be good to experiment a little with I should certainly advise the immediate trial of these materials on a small scale only one block each perhaps that when wo are ready to begin extensive paving we may know what is the best material toe to-e The Utah asphalt found at Thistle I should be tried at once for should it prove I as good a the Trinidad article it would bo I a most desirable paving material besides I being cheap in comparison and being a home production I Whatever parcmont i used as far a I possible it shoud be a home product and I such we think granite asphalt shale and I possibly brick will prove t be I To show comparative cost of pavements ve give prices paid in Lincoln and Omaha Nebraska on a lat contract I should b membered that both granite and Utah asphalt would to much cheaper here Granite 259 to 315 per sq yd according t foundation Colorado sandstone J858 to 313 cedar blocks SI35 t 184 cypress blocks 162 asphaltum 343 t 20S brick data not at hand but about 150 perhaps less necessary These figures do not include the curbing M F STUHQES C E |