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Show The paving will be done by Utah men and with asphalt taken from the hills of this territory.- . This means a good deal more than the successful termination of an aggressive ag-gressive newspaper fight. It means that one of the most notorious monopolies monop-olies in the country, which ha3 been strong enough to throttle public sentiment senti-ment in a score of American cities, has been squarely whipped by an arousad public -opinion in this oity. It means that Utah material will at last have a fair test iD this large city, and that when the prospective investor looks at our main thoroughfare next spring we shall be able to say to him not only, "You see our streets are paved," but we can add, "You will observe that they are paved with Utah asphalt." That will be something to be proud of, and, if the work is well done and the material entirely satisfactory, every citizen of this town will feel a sense of pride and satisfaction in the fact that it is Utah material, and not asphalt from the island of Trinidad, with which these streets are paved. There is another thing for the taxpayer tax-payer to consider in connection with this result. The board of public works at first awarded this job of paving to the liARiiEit company for $145,325. They will now award it to the Cclmee-Jennings Cclmee-Jennings company for $136,400. The tax-paj-ers nave tnus savea ssho as tne result of the fight on the Bakber monopoly mo-nopoly and of the action of the city council in rejecting the first award. One word uow to the successful bidders. bid-ders. We believe every right-thinking man in this territory desires to see this important experiment with Utah asphalt as-phalt succeed. The success of the experiment ex-periment means not only good pavement pave-ment for Salt Lake City, but a wide market for Utah asphalt throughout the United States. It is therefore of the highest importance that this work should be quickly and thoroughly done and that the material should be vindicated vindi-cated by this experiment. Iiie Times has the utmost faith that tho results of this work will justify it in its contention for the recognition of home material and home industry, and for the rejection of foreign material and an alien corporation. VICTORY FOR UTAH ASPHALT. We have reached the end of the fight over the contract for paving in this city. The Barber monopoly, which was beaten two weeks ago, is now bnried. The cause of house industry has won. |
