Show KELSEY DISLIKES MACADAM PAVING City Engineer Says Asphalt Is Much Cheaper in the theLong theLong theLong Long Run WARNS PROPERTY OWNERS I GROWING TENDENCY TO STIPULATE STIPULATE STIPULATE LATE CHEAPER MATERIAL The growing tendency of property own owners owners owners ers In the tho residence r district to stipulate In their petitions for street paving that macadam Instead of asphalt Is to be used is 1 is not approved by L C Kelsey Kelse city engineer or the board of public works which has charge of or all public improvements It is pointed out that thai on heavy 11 avy traveled residential streets the life of a macadam pavement Is much shorter and the annual expense of maintaining much greater than in the case of or asphalt and that in the long run asphalt Is the cheapest pavement which can be laid In Inthis Inthis this section of at the country In what respect macadam Is deficient Is shown In n a tabulated statement of or the life lite of various forms of pavement and the tle annual an al cost of construction and main maintenance maintenance maintenance recently made by b Edwin A Fish Fisher er city engineer of Rochester N Y in lu ina lua ina a report to the mayor of or if that city Ity The table shows the cost ost of the construction and maintenance of pavements on op a street having a traffic of tons Ions per square yard ard per day The tonnage would It was explained correspond to lo that of or a rather heavily traveled residence street streel or a bus iness mess street of medium travel in cities from to population The ta ble Is as follows Comparison of Cost Life Lite of Annual cost Material pavement per sq yd d Granite block 20 O years oars Sheet Sheat asphalt 15 n years Brick 12 iz years ears Macadam 5 years ears From this It Is argued that thai macadam in the long run Js Is s the most costly and besides has the disagreeable feature of having to lo be renewed at short Intervals necessitating the tearing up of ot the streets Asphalt is declared to be the cheapest when It is taken into consideration that Its life lite Is fifteen years ears Brick Is only of one cent per por year cheaper than asphalt but Us its life Ufe Is three years Gars less which more than equalized equalize S the cost In favor of the tho If the city engineer had his way only streets which had but a comparatively small amount of or travel would be lac paved with macadam but the property owners have the say if they so desire as to lo what whal material shall be used and on such thor ihor thoroughfares thoroughfares as Second avenue which has recently been macadamized their choice was for that thai material because of the low lower lower lower er initial cost The engineer however says sas that they the will wiil find that it would have been much cheaper In the end to lay la an asphalt pavement Macadam Requires Care To keep a macadam road from wearing out constant care Is necessary The best engineering practice for country roads is said to be to employ a man steadily for each limited section of the road to spend his entire time In filling depressions with screenings and In preventing ruts from forming Many macadam roads have been ruined and rendered worse than the aver average average average age dirt road by failure 10 adopt systematic matic matl precautions It might be explained In connection with the table shown that It would be impossible Impossible impossible sible to lo lay either a granite or brick pave pavement pavement ment meat In Salt Sail Lake without considerable additional cost over the figures given It must also be remembered that while Salt Lake has excellent material for ma macadam macadam macadam cadam in the shape of the stone from froni the Pasco quarries It does docs not equal that which can be secured in the east cast and therefore the cost of maintenance here Is considerably higher |