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Show CITY WILL If I ASPHALT LAND 1 1 Special Committee Has Agreed on Terms. 3 Venders Promise to Mine and Refine Product for Three Years. R-etail Butchers and Grocers Want Trading Stamps Taxed Out of Existence. Salt Lake City Is to become the 0TPl,,p of the pope asphnlt mine at Westwater' In Grand county. The special asphalt committee last night decided to recommend recom-mend to tho Council that the city buy for $4-.0 the Imp acres of land offered hv I R. M Pope y Messrs. POIw and Uwcon, who own th mine, agree to establish a refinery and to mlno and refine all the asphalt the ! city wants for $5 a ton. The rvport of " the expert was favorable. jn It he snld I that tlu ie would be 33,f'iO,OfiO tons of n. phall In sight in the claim he selerted This would r , :;.mvi t,,,M ,,f asphalt, a supply In ex.-. ss of what thi i city would need. The cost, however ! ' would be, great It would , j.v( tr', A pm up a refinery, $2yo to build a wagon road and dugway to haul the stuff from the mine the railroad. It would cost $iu a ton to mine the asphalt. $l.5ft to re- 1 tine it $4 .30 for the w;tgon haul to the railroad and $3 a ton for th.- railroad haul t" il" Bul Pop, and Lawson sav TmmL that they cm mine R and refine it f,-,r e i a ton Tills th y agree to do for a terra ' '9 of three :e.-,rs. provided thi- the .-n , ',n . require nv.re than Sn-nt tons This sssK Paves an expense of J2.Vin on the-city for fl sW' the wagon road, and a cost of $7 u a ton Ml for delivering the stuff In Salt Lake City, , Against Trading Stamps. J W Burt, secretnry of the Butchers' I Jin.l Grocers' Retail association, was pre- '! cnt with counsel to prev,UI on the conti mittee to put a heavy license on tradlng-stamp tradlng-stamp companies and to tax those mer-1 mer-1 hunts who use trading stamDS. Th matter was laid over so that the 1 ity .i- I torney's opinion could t asked as to tho legality Of such a license Assistant City Attorney W H Rramel said to The Tribune that it would b lep to Increase the license at present paid by the trading-stamp people u would, however, be unlawful to impose any tax on merchants who give away trading j si imps. "That h not a business, he '3 said 'The Council only has ?l right to . Impose a license n businesses. It can : 1 not Impose a tax on people who are n i ! a business and glv nw. certain stamys. J Denver recently passed an ordinance drlvl lng out tho trading-stamp companies. Judge Lindsay of the District eourt del 3 elded that the ordinance was uneonstltu- j ' tlonal." j |