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Show THE HMJi OF BLACK The Spreading of Asphaltura to B.gin in tho Light of Its Own Flames on Monday. THE DELAYS OF A LONG HAUL The Superintendent Denounces Certain Slanders Declares Commercial a Sample of the Whole, The concrete base for the asphalt, paving has been practically completed and Commercial street is now suggestive suggest-ive of what it will look like when all work has been completed and the finishing finish-ing touches administered. A Tim fs reporter called upon Mr. Austin, who is directing details, this morning. "Wo propose." said he, "to begin spreading the asphalt Monday morning when the street will be ablaze with flame. It will require as many men and as much, if not more, skill to do this work than was required to lay tho concrete. Then there is the roller. This is packed wilh a furnace of fire that keeps it red hot. at all times. You see the handling of asphalt is identical with the handling of plaster of Paris. You can't use the former wheu it onco cools on you" "Yes, and in that respoct it's on the principle of a coquette" chanted Hob Skinner looking up from a block of stone on which he was chisseling. "Exactly" continued the bearded superintendent, "although my knowledge knowl-edge of llirtatiou has been dimmed by a gootl many years. Hut as I was saying you can't handle cold asphaltura any more thau vou can dry." "No reference to Mumm's Extra Dry," broke iu the sculptor again. "No, but dry plaster of Paris. Hence the use of tho big roller that will fry an egg in a moment. Yes, sir, the scene on Monday will be a busy one. Of course it won't be so agreeable to the olfactories but that offense wont be remembered re-membered iu a hundred years." "And when will tho throughfare be open for traffic?" "Say about December 5. Not earlier ear-lier than that for we want to give tho material every opportunity to show what it can do. Tlio Utah asphalt company can givo you more information as to that, however." how-ever." "All material on hand ?" ."Save the curbing stone that has been delayed right along from the start. Thero should be twelve cars more than we now have right a the depot. If they had adopted Park city stono tho work would now have been practically done. Tho haul from Fort. Collins, Colorado, has occasioned all the delay. Wo shall not wait on the curbing, though, and on Monday steam will begin to rise." "It has been said." remarked the interviewer, in-terviewer, "that this will not be a fair index of the general work that is to follow; fol-low; that you have lavished unusual care, skiil aud material, that the contractors con-tractors may get tho balance of the work?" "To all of which there is no foundation founda-tion whatever. This is a sample sam-ple of the whole thing and unlcss the results on Commercial should suggest some alteration not tho slightest slight-est will be made. Reputation is always at stake in the race and men who are seeking such work on tho frontier cannot can-not afford to sacrifice their integrity for a trille. 1 can assure those that are circulating cir-culating that romance, that every yard of paving will bo laid just as faithfully as that which has been laid on this thoroughfare. The object that has been kept before the contractors right along has been to demonstrate tho adaptability of asphalt to street paving. One faction wanted stone because it was a local product. One the same principle princi-ple we want to demonstrate that asphalt is the stuff because it is a local product. The fate of the industry in Utah will be largely influenced by the result of street paving in Salt Lake City, and knowing this the contractors can well afford a porfect job. No, sir; you can assure tho taxpayer that he is getting his money's worth and that the work on Commercial Commer-cial is a faithful index of all that is to follow." Work on the concrete was finished this morning, and if the progress of the past may be accepted as a criterion for tho future, it will require but it short lime to place the black mantle ou all the thoroughfares. |