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Show ployiient on all public and private work, and Kie use of home material. j P. E. Van Houghton was in favor of home : men end material in every branch of public work. The money spent in that way will be reinvested here instead of being carried out of the territory, and I think we should keep every dollar at home that we can. :W1L. Pickard, Jr., said he favored giving" the con tract to the home company, because they rould employ home labor and material in their work, and the money they paid out would be spent here. He said he was familiar famil-iar wth the methods of the Barber company and they would import their men as well as thebf material, as they had done in other cities, and Uie money paid for the labor wonli be carried out of the territory and : spent elsewhere. We have plenty of good material at home, and plenty of workmen whoould be benefitted by the work. Hi'mm Ktmball I expect to live here and my aUdren will live here after me, and 1 want to patronize home industries, use home material and give employment to our own idle orkmen before going outside for them. H.'M. Wells Asa general proposition I am ia favor of patronizing: home labor and home material all the time. S. M. A'lerbach I am not a competent judge of street paving, a d while I favor home material, if as good as the imported, I baveirt decided in my own mind what material ma-terial J would prefer. The city council are th IWaJ judges in the matter. I have confi-dencj-1 thwiu, and as it is their duty to investigate in-vestigate thoroughly, I think their decision, whe- once made, will be satisfactory. The ,city Council will be held responsible by the taxpayers and will not act unwisely or with-ouSj'ie with-ouSj'ie consideration. i ft H. Clark said he would favor the home com,tjmy every time, even if it cost a third more tf they could do the work as well. He believed iu fostering home industries, and it waa a principle he applied to the manasre-ineiH)f manasre-ineiH)f his private" business. If more people peo-ple old adopt that prineipte he thought there would be less complaint about hard ttmeshere. .J. IliFawt Pay a third more if necessary to keen the- work home; then -we can turn the doUars over again among ourselves. "I have adne considerable traveling lately," he said, f and have made it my business to look into this paving question pretty thoroughly, and I toll you our material is as good as any forefgn." "- O. Johnson of the Western Shoe and Dry Goods company, said he favored giving the work to the home company-: He believed it the right thinr to do, oven if it cost more. Horn enterprise should be protected aud fostered, and he adopted that plan himself in'aTl his busine&s dealings. " Witl" Lynn All things being: equal, I favor giving the contract to the home company----. . , Edu' Douxlen I would favor the home company on general principles. : J, 3.' Walden I would give the contract to the home company, of course, if they are the lowest bidders and can do the work as well &a the outsiders.' Mr. Vinson, the manager of the Stude-baker Stude-baker company, said he . was decidedly in favor of the home, company. W, S. MeCornic k It should go to the lowest bidder. . , ' : Y' THE COUNCIIS POWER. " ' .... Mot W-tricted to th Mar Veto of the Action of thJHord or Pnblio Works. This afternoon the reporter called upon Mr. Ciiiftner of the Culmer & Jennings Pav- ''fag company, for a little additional information informa-tion 'f"cS?rd fathe llagttd interview 'Kif morning" contemporary wilh .Chairman Haines of the board of public wwrks "How about the statement of . Mr. Haines that the board of public works has no alternative alter-native but to award the - contract to the Barber company as the next lowest respon- siblaWddcr?" asked the scribe. - "The facts arc," replied Mr. Culmer, "that - the Barber company did not comply with the specifications or instructions to bidders, in "furnishing samples marked with the THE AWARD FORME; The Barber Asphalt Company Com-pany Has No Claim to It. Neither Its Record Nor Its Bid Entitle It Thereto. The History of Its Past Work Is Uniformly Bad. :- All Other Cities Have Suffered Suf-fered Loss and Disappointment Disap-pointment from It. . Further Expressions of Opinion From Citizens of Salt .ae in Every Occupation Oc-cupation of L.ife Show Conclusively Conclusive-ly that the Sentiment Is Almost Unanimous in Favor of Home Work and Home Material as Against the Barber Company.' One week ago the board of public works awarded the contract for paving Main street to the Barber AsDhalt company. Last Wednesday The Tikes demanded an explanation and aaked that the public be informed in-formed why the lowest bidder had been set aside, why home companies had been discriminated dis-criminated against, and why a?phaltum from the West. Indies had been taken in preference to aaphaltum from the mine of Utah. : ' Tailing to receive any explanation, The Times proceeded to show that pnblic sentiment senti-ment was overwhelmingly opposed to having hav-ing the Barber contract confirmed under these circumstances. Last Thursday The Times exhibited the record which the Barber company ha made in the pavibg business in several American cities. It was demonstrated that their paving was voted a lamentable failure in St. .Joseph. ' It was shown that the Barber company had probably made 11,000,000 out of the city of Buffalo, N. T and given a very soor pavement pave-ment In return. It waa shown that ia Omaha the boipe of General Agentqnirea, the Bar. iJerpavine is absolutely repudiated." It waa shown that the New York "World charged that the city of New York had been swindled by the Barber company in the ahape of a fraudulent guarantee of their work for fifteen years, and that litigation and scandal had followed. It was shown that our home companies are capable of doing the work promptly and date, name of bidder, or the place where the sample was- procured," and the board of public works should have refused to entertain enter-tain their bid and thrown it out as informal, as they said they would in their "advertisement "advertise-ment and instructions to bidders." We are the lowest resposible bidders which furnished fur-nished sample of everything used in the contract and ought to be awarded the contract on purely legal grounds, besides which nearly two-thirds of the abuttors ask for our Wasatch asphaHum ; they are willine to give us a chance. Why should the board that does not have to pay for the work try to crush out the home product? "The path seems clear to us. On investigation investi-gation the - council committee will find that we are the lowest bidders 'entitled 'enti-tled to the work,' and all, they have to do is to refuse to rat'fy the action of the board in awarding contracts to the Barber company and send the papers back with instructions in-structions to let the contract to the Culmer fe Jennings Paving company, for the reason I that they are the lowest responsible bidders who have complied with the terms of the advertisement. ad-vertisement. There is na earthly reason to re-advertise, as the matter can be referred time and time again from council to board, and until all the bidders fail to qualify there is no occasion to re -advertise. - CCI-MEK-JENNISGS COMPANY. Vf hat Their Friend Say of Their Ability . . for tbe Work. - - - A gentleman who has made inquiries into the ability of the Culmer-Jennings company to do tbe paving, says: - ."It seems impossible for any company to do more than this firm Is prepared to do, for their foresight ia simply remarkable, they having - provided for every possible contingency, contin-gency, and I am satisfied they could get through with this work much sooner than any foreijrn company. They have over two blocks of curbing on hand' ready to go to work with, and can deliver from one and one-half to two blocks per week from now till the contract is comp eted. "They have over 300 carloads of blocking material on band now, and can furnish it quicker than it can be laid. "Their capacity for asphalt work is at present sixty tons per day, which could be Increased to any amount necessary in short notice. I am surprised to find this company to well equipped fordoing work quickly and well, and from my observations I know there will be no mistake in intrusting the work to them, besides which they are always here to take charge of changes in the work brought about by putting in pipes, etc., while foreign company would, after taking away their plant as soon as they are through with their contract, entail a loss and inconvenience incon-venience to abutters almost inconceivable." A typographical error occurred In 'our Saturday evening' Times, in which we were made to say that the Culmer-Jenning company com-pany were paying $300 per year In taxes. It should have read $300 per month quite a difference. . properly with home material. It was shown that the lowest bidder had put up a first-class first-class bond for the faithful and satisfactory performance of their contract. If anything further is wanting to demonstrate demon-strate that this odious contract should not be confirmed, The Times does "not know what It is. The city council will act upon the matter tonight, and there ia every reason to believe that the member of that body will reflect in their action the sentiment which prevails in this community, and that this bare-faced attempt of a power ful monopoly to get control Of the streets of Salt Lake will meet with an ignominious defeat. de-feat. , ," " " . , - Further facta in regard to the paving is-sue, is-sue, and further expressions of opinion from prominent citizens, are presented today. MORE CITIZENS SPEAK. They are All in Favor of Hairing the Work Done Bt Utah Men. Judge Thou. Marshall This is a serious matter and one which should not be decided in a hurry. But if the home company can do the work as well, I favor giving them the contract, of course. Home enterprise and home industries should certainly be encouraged. en-couraged. Mr. Johnson of Remington, Johnson db Co. It is queer that when we have so much material here that we can export it, we are obliged to go away from home for the same material, and for workmen when there are so many workmen here without employment. I favor home industry from building a house up, and want to aee the home company get that contract. - E. C. Coffin said that hi sympathy waa with the home company and home enterprise enter-prise always. "In regard to this - paving business," said he, "there may be some local antagonism to individual members of the home company, but I do not think that should be allowed to figure in a matter of the public welfare." Judge Bartch If the home company' bid is anywhere near the Barber company's figures I would give the contract to the home company. It is a matter of building up our own city and giving work to the great many idle men in the community. The home company would employ heme material, and the money paid out to them would come back again into the channel of local trade and enterprise. I would protect home enterprise, and . I do not see how the council can do anything else, even if it cost more, and I would fight the matter out to that end inch by inch. Arthur Brown said he did not thoroughly understand how the matter stood, but from what he does know about it he would natur-allv natur-allv favor the home company. Marshal Parsons said that a a fundamental principle ha favored giving the contract to the home company. Frsd Simon I favor giving the contract to the home company. To patronize home labor la-bor and material i the only way to make our city prosperous. I am absolutely in favor of patronizing local enterprise against outsiders, out-siders, and I apply th proposition from matches to woolen good and paving. C. H. Parsons i am In favor of home men, home work and home material, even if we have to pay more for it. For we will all be benefitted by it. directly or la directly. I think there is only one question ques-tion to be considered in tha matter, with an outside company, end that ia the quality of the work. E. R. Clute "Give the contract where it belong." , "And where to that?" mildly Inquired the reporter. ' "It - belongs at home, that's where It belongs," be-longs," answered tbe e-eeeor and collector, col-lector, emphatically. h. XT. CotbathAU thing being equal he favored the home company, of course. " F. Wantiand I favor the home company always. If they can do good work, and I don't believe there is any question as to that. ' 1 believe In giving home men em- A FERMANEXT INCOME. Tbmt X Whet the Barber People Get from Their "Repair." The Barber company claim that they hare laid 7,000,000 yards of their asphalt, and that tbey are prepared to do repairing on the same for the guaranteed time of five years, and after that for ten years more at 8 cents per yard. Now, what does this mean? These 7,000,000 yards at 8 cents make $560,000 per annum that the monopoly Is squeezing out of the American cities, and a each and every yard haa to pay thia 8 cents, it follows that it is to their interests to have jnst enough of repairs going on during the first , five years of their guarantee to scare any city government into in-to making the additional ten years income secure to that company. While our home Company is using as. they do a literal mineral rubber, they will not have to mend their work, and the citizens will -save the 8 cents per 1 1 '- j--- - Continued on page 4. : - "' '-' ' ' THE AWARD FOR PAVING. Continued from page 1. square yard on this 29.000 yards as the pavement, pave-ment, we are informed, is good for twenty years or more without any repairing. Different Asphaltum. Editor Times: Gentlemen: From the talk on the street I should think it was pretty definitely settled that the Barber people peo-ple "ain't in it," so far as the disposition of the citizens generally and especially the owners of property who have to pay the tax are concerned. Your good fight in favor of home material and against that unscrupulous unscrupu-lous monopoly have had the good effect of causing inquiry as to the best material to be had, and the possibility of it being found among our resources, and also brought out the desires more definitely than before expressed, ex-pressed, as to when and how the abutters wish the work done. Asphaltum is a material that very, very few people understand, and so many different differ-ent compounds, as well as material products, pro-ducts, are known by that name that it is no wonder it is confusing. Paving asphalts as-phalts are either natural products or artificial arti-ficial compounds. Among the latter is the old 6tyle "coal tar pavement," that has outlived out-lived its day in this city, but is still used in other places in the absence of better material. ma-terial. The fault of this compound is that when the volitile oil in the tar is evaporated the binding property is lost and the balance of the material "disintegrates. This is why holes appear very shortly after the first summer's sum-mer's heat in any such pavements. Other artificial compounds are made by the admixture of crude petroleum with coal tar pitch and sand; sometimes with pure bitumen, bitu-men, residium, rosin and sand, but all of these have the same objection, ' vi: That when the oil departs or dries up, as it soon does, the remainder of the material falls apart. The natural asphalts as mined vary very much as regards their value for paving, those that contain petroleum being be-ing of least value; those without, but containing con-taining clay, being next; and those composed com-posed of lime, silica, or a combination of both, prove most valuable. All of the California Cali-fornia deposits, as far as I can learn, are bituminous sand containing more or less of volatile oil. The Trinidad, or pitch lake deposit, is bituminous clay with some silica, much organic matter and volatile oil. The Switzerland, or the Val de Travers, deposit, is an asphaltic limestone; that is, limestone impregnated with from 5 to 12 per cent of fixed asphalt, and is the only known deposit In the world outside of Utah. The Wasatch Asphaltum company of this city own extensive deposits in Tie Fork of Spanish Fork canyon, Utah county, of asphaltic limestone analyzing precisely the same as the famous Val de Travers, except that it contains a greater percentage of fixed sphalt, assaying from 20 to 65 per cent and Viveraging 30 per cent of pure asphalts. 'This asphaltic limestone contains not a trace of petrolenm and therein lies its superlariveKvalue over any other material our roads can be paved wnh, as it will never disintegrate and will naturally take mach more time to wear out than a material that will volatilize. This is the material that will be laid on our streets if the Calmer-Jennings Calmer-Jennings company get the contract. While it is true tkat the experience in laying roads of this company is limited to only a few years, yet their knowledge of asphaltic material has been gained by years of study and their product has been known and in iise for a century in Europe. Some Itreets in London bave been paved with it for about fifty years and are still ia. good order, while in the last twenty years" it has been accepted as the only kind f of asphalt that is reliable and that will bear heavy traffic Many millions of yards ot it are laid in London, Paris, Berlin Ber-lin and pther continental cities, and the Trinidad material has failed to find competi-. lion witli it, although much perseverance and a small ' fortune was spent in tbe attempt. at-tempt. Wherever experiments were made with it tbe work was condemned. Tbe Utah asphaltic limestone must not be confused with tbe Thistle asphalt or the eastern Utah bituminous sand, which is not as good as the California product and bears no comparison for excellence as a paving material with the limestone. Tbe . Wasatch company bring their rock, which is of a dark brown color and very hard, from their mines to their mills In North Salt Lake, where H is crushed and ground and then heated to about 400 degrees and mixed with enough silica to reduce its strength to 15 per cent of asphalt This is taken and rolled on the street at 300 degress of heat and of a thickness thick-ness of two or two and one-half inches and in a few hours is ready for traffic I bave spent the best part of my life in the study of this subject and know whereof I speak when I say that to my certain knowledge the Utah asphaltic limestone will make a more durable road than will any other known variety of asphalt in America. What a pity, then, to even consider for a minute the proposition of giving this work to a foreign company who would use a foreign material. The prosperity of this city as well as of any ether consists in fostering the capital and resources we bave and in producing everything possible for export, coaxing capital cap-ital frcm abroad for investment here, as well as in retaining what we bave. . Rather than import asphaltum we should make a strenuous stren-uous effort to make our own valuable product pro-duct known abroad,-with a view to export to less favored localities. The first step in this direction is to show our own faith aud confidence in our resources or we may never expect our neighbors to notice us. Let us not hide our light under a bushel. Expert. |