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Show CIVE IT A CHANCE. We sincerely hopa that not many people in this city are afraid to give Utah asphalt a fair test on our streets. The people of Salt Lake should be the last people on earth to ba timid about making such a test. We tell the world that we have great resources. We honestly believe Utah ia endowed beyond be-yond her sister commonwealths. Is all this mere talk? Are wa to halt and hesitate and express fears when at last we have a chance to make a practical test in one department of our resources? It must be remembered that the company com-pany to which the board of public works last night awarded the contract has had faith enough in this material to expend large sums of money in the development de-velopment of the industry. It must be remembered that they give ample bonds for a proper and faithful performance per-formance of the contract. It must be remembered that it is only by such a test that we can ever know whether Utah can be a producer of merchantable merchanta-ble asphalt. W say let every man who believes what we have all said about the splendid splen-did resources of this territory should today be in favor of giving Utah asphalt a fair trial on our streets, when its proprietors have fairly won the opportunity oppor-tunity by putting in tbe lowest bid. We believe this will be the result, as it ought to b9. . |