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Show IUtlCK FOK KTKEET PAVEMENT. Somo people, who are not posted and up with the times, laugh at the idea of brick being used for street pavement. It may surprise such persons to learn that brick has been utilized for street-paving street-paving purposes for a number of years in several eastern cities, and has stood tho test of lime and wear. Urick is used as a pavement iu Whoceling, 'W. Va., Peoria, 111., and Omaha, Lincoln aud Beatrice, Neb., and in other places. It has been . strongly indorsed by the Omaha board of public works. At the recent paving-material exposition in Iudianapolis, brick pavement occupied a prominent place and attracted a great deal of attention from city officials who went there from all parts of the county to thoroughly investigate the costs and the durability aud other qualities qual-ities of tho various kinds of paving material ma-terial on exhibition. .Brick made a most favorable impression upon everybody, every-body, especially for the paving of residence resi-dence streets. The cost is reasonable, and should it be adopted for any of the streets of Salt, Lake tho homo manufacture manufac-ture of brick will receive quite a boom. The Daily Gaaetlo-Tribuue of Kokomo, Indiana, in speaking of tho paving exposition at Indianopolis, says: , Samples of tho different kinds of piiv-ing, piiv-ing, each JIiimo or four feet square, were oti exhibition showinir all the ma. ferial used in their construction. The kind that attracted the best attention of the officials and regarded as the most practical for this cily was the pavement constructed of brick and gravel. Streets made by this method are graded tho same as where macadam is used after which a layer of gravel is put on, then a layer of brick llatwise as Inordinary sidewalks. On this is put another layer of gravel and another course of brick set edgewise as close together as they can bo laid. The brick used must bo tho very hardest that can bo burned vitrified brick. It is claimed that streets made in this manner will last a half a century with little or no repairs. When the brick becomes worn ou tho crown of tho streot they can be taken out and turned bottom eilgo up. making it as good aa now. Streets built in this way will come as near lasting forever as anything yet mado, or thought of. Tho cost of building, includingsidewalksand gutters, is about 0 per lineal foot, not quite double tho expense of macadam. |