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Show tition in paving as in all public improvements improve-ments in order to get the lowest possible prices for satisfactory work. If any favoritism favorit-ism is to be 6hown it should be to those who use home materials and develop the productive produc-tive industries of the country, and not to those who depend on cooiie labor for their products." Omaha aud St Joe are examples of the results re-sults of dealing with -the Barber Asphalt company and of permitting that foreign monopoly to gain a foothold in a city and a mortgage on it. streets. It will cost both of these cities millions to replace the asphalt laid as pavement by the Barber company, but whether they have paid for as much coal tar as Denver is paying for is a matter on which we are not informed. The experience l of sister cities should bo a warning to Den-j Den-j ver, whose taxpayers should profit by it. The sinking of wagons in the asphalt . pavement "the best known to modern science" is becouiiug so common a thing on Fifteenth street as to have ceased to excite ex-cite wonder. The last instance was an ordinary or-dinary stone wagon on Monday, loaded with a couple of sills, the whole thing weighing not to exceed two and a half tons. regret that they were employed. I think it is time to call a halt. I think it is time our people were given a fair 6how with nonresidents. non-residents. A RAILROAD HELPS. The R. G. W. Encourages Home Pavement Pave-ment by Reducing Freights. S. H. Babcock, who has justreturned from the meeting of the Transcontinental association asso-ciation iu New . York, today notified the AVasatcff' Asphalt company that the Bio Grande AVestern Railway company had made liberal reductions in freight tariff on asphaltum shipped from the mines of this company for the purpose of assisting and encouraging home industries indus-tries in their competition wi.h outside and alien contractors, which is a consideration that our people will fully appreciate. MAY POSTl'OME ACTIOS. The Council May Iecile to Await an Expression Ex-pression by the Taxpayers. It is possible that the paving contract may not be awarded at this evening's meeting of. the council. ' If not it will be because certain members of that body are not yet prepared to assume the responsibility of deciding the question without becoming more familiar with the sentiment of the taxpayers of the city. A plan is being considered this afternoon which has In view the postponement of consideration con-sideration at tonight's meeting, and the. recommendation that a mass meeting of the taxpayers be held for the purpose of securing se-curing an expression upon the matter. This would, to a certain extent, guide the council coun-cil iu its consideration of the matter and enable en-able them to reach a decision in harmony with the will of the people. Members of the council realize most fully that this is a question of great importance and one in which they cannot afford to make any mistake. Several so expressed themselves them-selves to a Times reporter this morning, and stated that, all things being equal, home industries in-dustries should have the preference. Home Material First. Editor Times: I am glad to see that you are taking a decided stand on what appears to me, and, from the talk on the street, to most people, as a decided injustice to our citizen contractors, and a disgraceful way of advertising to the world our mistrust in our strength and resources. Everyone knows, who has taken interest enough in our local affairs, that Utah abounds in suitable material ma-terial for street paving. The best of rock for curbing and blocking right at our doors and within easy access; mountains of pure asphaltic limestone, which is proven to be the best known material for road-making. I say proven, because, first, anyone inter- TIIEBARBERpTRACT Curious Proceedings on the Part of the Board of Public Works. SAMPLES CALLED FOR THAT WERE NOT EVEN OPENED. Home Material Contrasted With the Imported Stuff. ONLY ONE WAY OPEN FOR THE CITY COUNCIL TO PURSUE. The CitiiKcns Fully Aroused to the Situation end Determined to Have Fair Play Known The Ilecord of the Itarber Asphalt Company Creates Cre-ates Surprise-More Expressions cf Opinion. The publication in The Times yesterday of the record of the Barber Asphalt company in every city where it secured a paving contract, con-tract, and especially its expulsion from all competition in Omaha, where General Agent Squires hns his headquarters, created a commotion com-motion in this community that demonstrates the deep feeling on the subject on the part of our citieens. It would be exceedingly unwise for the city council to ignore the temper of the people upon this vital question ques-tion now that the whole scheme is laid bare. Fair play is demanded, and nothing short of that. Several persons, interested or otherwise, .- give their views below. Mora Opinions. G. F. Culmer, president of the AA'asatch Asphaltum company and of the Montana Stone company, and snior member of the Culiner-Jennings Paving company, which pu! in a bid on the street paving of Main and r'irl and Second South streets, speaking of the lclling of the contract by the board of public works, said: 'The board of public works asked forbids, furnishing specifications for work, which stated that no bid would be considered which w:s not accompanied by samples properly marked wiih the date, namu of bidder and the place from whence, the samples Mere obtained. ob-tained. Yet, in flu face of all this, the Barber Bar-ber company's bid was entertained, while it l:i:4 nil sr;pii les in compliance with the speei- ested enough to get an assay and analysis can find, as the owners have done, that the deposit referred to is nearly the same, and in some coses is exactly the same, as the famous Xcnchatel asphalt with which Paris, London, Berlin and A'ienna are paved with, and which is pronounced by eminent authority, author-ity, as the best material known. I refer to the product of the AA'asatch Asphaltum compauy, com-pauy, which is the material I am told is used on Richards avenue and which the Culmer-Jennings Culmer-Jennings company proposa to ase on Main street, if they jjet the contract. This material ma-terial Ts"ownecf by Salt Lake citi sens', 'la " mined by Utahmiaer8,mlttedandl&idby Utah skilled labor, and means that whatever it costs, to do it, whether with a bis profit or a a great loss, that the moneys the whole of it, stays heie and continues to lubricate the wheels of trade and other industries. On the contrary it is a conspicuous fact that if a Utah material is not used and the Barber people won't use it we will get no better roads, but will forever part with that money. A wise statesman once pointed out the fact that a country, a state or a city wa3 not impoverished im-poverished to any extent, no matter how much' money is expended for public improvements, im-provements, provided it was not so unwise as to go outside of its own commonwealth frr money, labor or material; but, that on the other hand, it is enriched to the full extent ex-tent of it expenditures, having its money still in hand, p.nd its improvements to boot. This is sound logic, and it should take but a moment's thought to convince us of the folly of having a foreisn body to do for us what we can easily do for ourselves, or of the extravagance of shoveling our hard-earned hard-earned dollars into the lap of New York cor- lira. lens, iu any one instance. "' i '(lers were invited to put in bids, spend their time and procure - a $10,000 certified cheek 11s ;mi evidence of good faith, yet when the linn came lor awsrdins the contracts our s. iu; l:' packases were not opened or even examined by the board. They remain ideutiily in the same position as they did on the. 10th of Jugust, when deposited. Nov,, what, have we concluded from this treatment ? Was it intended that the con-- con-- tract should be let to the Barber Asphalt company regardless of what anybody else did. mid, If r.orh6.ii -home, enterprise ever ; ..t Tie lostoivd in our mWst tVe understand """" tliilV't'fTe utAetS!'rcTrt esentatire states that ;1: they me the only people who are prepared f , '". to-nio t!iu work qrk-kly ; yet, our company J. j d j-Jich ;tr.,teJ "its ability to perform this work within il.e time bpecified and in a satisfactory sat-isfactory manner, and is prepared with its bonds to gu irantee the same 4 i;t t'.iis contract. We have expended in the deveiopm'-nt of this business up-w;;ri!-. of .5.),()tA, and should this work go to ., the i'.arher people v, hat au it mean but the ruin of this enterprise? "One bid was $5000 less than the Barber coni; rtny on the nrphait work; it was much less tn the curbing and would have been less n;; the blocking hud the Barber people 'i put in a legitimate bid. We have been in-j formed thflt it was thefr intention to put in a bid cn stone work at a big loss and sacrifice sacri-fice to themselves in order that they might down the Utah product, for if our own citizens ;will not support the home companies com-panies how eau it be expected that other cities will adopt our pavement? "As for material the quarizose sandstone is eminently fitted for first-class pavement, being much superior, both in appearance (Ind wear, to the mica schist or trap-rock commonly known here as Cottonwood granite, which, under the influence of moisture, frost and abrasion, rapidly wear smooth and cobble shaped. - . , "The Wasatch asphaltum is an asphaltic limestone similar to the A'al De Travers from the provinces of Xeuchatel, wtiicli has heretofore been acknowledged as the best pavement on the continent of Europe, the Trinidad variety having been knocked cut entirely there. - "The work done by our company on Richards street and elsewhere should sa'isfy any citizen that we are abundantly able to carry out our contracts, besides, while taking into consideration the reputation reputa-tion of our firm aud the further fact that we believe we are the only contractors that ever completed any street paving within the contracted rime in this city. In the 138 strest crosaiags put down by us last fall we We used more than one-half as many blocks of stone as vrtil be required in this contract and we ooly had ninety days to do the whole Job of our work. Since that time we have expended over $50,000 in railroad and quarry developments, etc., which puts us in position posi-tion to ten times double our former capacity." capac-ity." Joht O.BecJiSol If a home company can do tne work properly, it should certainly have the contract, If it can come anywhere Heaf the figures of the outside concern. porations, when our own struggling indus-drics indus-drics are languishing for lack of public appreciation. ap-preciation. Another thing that strikes me as very funny, is this: The board of public works required each bidder to segregate his bid so as to show at what price per foot he could furnish the curbing and at what price per yard for blocking and asphalting. AVhy did they do this, if not for the purpose of themselves dividing the work and give to the lowest bidder on each part, their share? Were this done, the local material would have been adopted, since the Culmer-Jen-uings bid cn the curbing and on the asphaltum as-phaltum was considerably the lowest. AA'hy not award the contract separately to the lowest bidder? Let the Barber company have the blocking if they are the lowest, and the curbing to the Culincr people, who are certainly lowest on the parts mentioned. At any rate, I sincerely hope that such pressure j may be brought to bear in the way of public 1 opinion as will induce the city council to award the contract to any one who can do good work, but surely with Utah material. Yours for the best good of all, AV. B. A Canard Nailed. Editor or The Times: Some persons who of course are controlled by personal motives mo-tives have circulated the report that we are out of the contest for the city paving now pending before the city council. This report re-port is absolutely false and without foundation. founda-tion. AVe are citizens of Salt Lake, mean business busi-ness and are in the fight to stay. Our bid is the lowest by $4525. We propose to use Salt Lake labor and Utah materials and we offer as bondsmen for the faithful performance per-formance of our contract these well known citizens, Matthew Cullen and Allen G. Campbell Camp-bell in any amount required by the council. We are entitled to the contract on a square deal, and if we cannot get it we want to know the reason why, and we think the citizens cit-izens aud taxpayers of Salt Lake City are of the same mind. Respectfully, Rtax & GiuFri.v. Salt Lake City, Utah, September 2, 1692. What the Bids Are. In a morning paper the bids for paving were quoted, showing that the Barber W . H. Iccmington A year or two ago I '. as using my best endeavors to get contracts, con-tracts, but it seem impossible because every trip Mr. Squires of the Barber company made here the specifications seemed to be changed to euit their class of material. Tfee home people engaged in this yrorkhave never been able to get a fair show tere. Mr. Ryan is associated with Dennis Ryan, who is bis brother, and they are worth a great deal of money. Ryan's partner, Mr. Griffin, baa been associated with Kilpatrick Bros. fc Coilins, and is known to be a first-class first-class contractor. Their sureties, Messrs. Campbell aad Cullen, are all that could be asked. I have inspected the Barber company's -work in Omaha, and when I was thqre their paving was a network of cracks, and the volatile substance emed t have disappeared from the material mater-ial used. I dida't find a single person per-son who had a good word to say lor the Barber people or their work. So much for this talk about the Bsjrber company's "experience." Byan & Griftia have botfi the money and ability to do good work. They have ordered a first class plant, and I think the discrimination against them, by the board of public works lan outrage. Of course, I think the members mem-bers of the board are above suspicion in this matter, but they have made a serious mistake, and certainly have laid themselves open to criticism. I believe in public work as in private, the men who are putting out the money should have the tight to get the kind of contractors they like. Judging from the expressions made, it is evident that in this case, home contractors are preerred. It has teen the rule in the past to give the work to some oue not a resident of the city. Is it fair to presume that we haven't men of sufficient intelligence to do our own work? Our officers are apparently very ' zealous zeal-ous during campaign times'in declaiming in favor of home workmen and home industries. indus-tries. Yet these same men are now giving heme workmen the, cold shoulder and en-Cour.iging en-Cour.iging an outside concern, whose work lias mad') those cities where it has operated Asphalt company made the lowest bid. This was done by omitting one firm entirely. Here are the lowest bids: BTAN A GRIFFIN. Curbing, 11,000 linear feet, $1.15 12,650 00 Blorks, 1.S.000 square yards, (a $2.55 SyO 00 Asphalt, 29,000 square yards, $3.25.. . M,a50 00 Total $145,150 CO BARBER COMPA5T. Curbing, 11,000 linear feet, J1.01....$ 11.110 00 Biocks. 15,t. square yards, (g $2.79 41,R50 00 Asphalt, 29,01)0 square yams,. $11,184. S-VJtt 00 Toal ? $145,325 00 145,15(1 00 Difference $175 U0 Take Warning. The following excerpts arc from Denver papers, but excepting the name, might have been penned in Salt Lake: . "The attempt to hand the city over to a ; Having concern which deals in a foreign importation im-portation and buncoes every community which it gets in its grssp, should be reseutcd by every taxpayer. Denver wants compe- |