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Show COST OF PAVING MAY HALT UTAHPRQGRAM State Road Commission Is Disappointed in Substitute Sub-stitute Prices. 'Lean' Cement Base With Bituminous Topping Is Found Expensive. I r members of tne Eta to road commission commis-sion had Imped for a marked decrease in the east of hard -surface pavement by substituting a "lean" cement base with a. bituminous topping for reinforced concrete, con-crete, they appeared yesterday afternoon, when bids had been tabulated on two places of work in .Salt Lake county, to be doomed to disappointment. On Thirty-third fe'outh street In Halt l.ako county, where 4.SG miles of pavement pave-ment are planned to complete the connection connec-tion between Suit Dako and Garfield, the state obtained a bid for the new class of pavement of about ? U'OO a mile 'under thf low bid of I'. J. Moran on the former ndvertising of this project, for reinforced concrete. for ttio 11. miles, beginning five and one-third miles soutli of Mid vale Junction Junc-tion and continuing to the north city limits oi American Fork, exclusive of the part within the city limits of Dehi, the cost for tiie bituminous topping on a concrete con-crete base, it was found, would exceed the coMt of reinforced concrete by ?o00 a mile. Are Considering Bids. The commission' took these bids under advisement until Monday. The members wen; free to express keen disappointment nt the showing made, and feared that thn paving program of the state might 1)6 indeiinltely delayed, if not curtailed entirely, en-tirely, us a result. The contract for 27,313 cubic yards of excavation at Fisher pass, formerly Johnson's John-son's pass, on the Lincoln highway, between be-tween Clover and Orr's ranch, was let to t'ouu & Fuller Construction company for 6'J!s cents a yard, or $10,449 for the job as estimated at present. Mr. Coan was present and said he is equipped well enough to have the work completed by July 15, as required in the specifications. J I o could put on twenty teams if necessary. neces-sary. The only other contractor bidding was the Ileislet Construction company, at S4 cents a vard, or ?2LiitiS for the job. The work will he partly paid for out of the $25,iOU fund provided by Carl H. Fisher Fish-er or' the P res to-O-Lite company, vice president of the Lincoln Highway association, associa-tion, in consideration of the name of the pass being changed, of the state designating desig-nating the Lincoln highway as a state thoroughfare and connecting it with the state road system. The money will not be quite sufficient to complete the work, and the state will have to provide the additional funds from its own resources or from money provided by Tooele county. Bids Formerly Advertised. The two paving contracts on which bids were considered had already been advertised once as reinforced concrete propositions. For the work on Thirty -thtrd South street. P. J. Moran had been low bidder for that class of construction, at ?-7.u"l a mile, the - pavement to be 6 inches deep at the shoulder and S inches deep at the center, and to be IS feet wide. The work was readvertised for a base of concrete not reinforced, and mixed in the proportion of one part of Portland cement to nine of sand and gravel for a base, varying from 4 to 6 inches, to be covered by bltulithic or by a bituminous concrete, known technically as Topeka mix, two inches thick. Bids opened yesterdav were bv Owen H. Gray & Co.. at J31.577.77 for the work as estimated ; bv Rvberg Brothers, at $llt,!h)5.75; by P. j. Moran, at $105,424.15, and by J. W. Mellen. at Slu9.163.45. To each of these amounts must be added 'the cost of material to the state, which was $47,215.24 for the bitulithin surfacing, when a 25-cent royalty a yard was paid to AVarren Brothers, and $:J5,&Po .24 for the Topeka mix surfacing, on which no royalty is required. Thero were also some slight differences in some of the bids for the laying of bitulithic as compared com-pared with the Topeka mix, the latter being be-ing slightly cheaper. Gray & Co. offrad to lay bitulithic and Topeka mix at the same figure, fiO cents a square yard, and this brought the total of their bid for Topeka mix to J127.572.99, or S2il.30;l.l per mile For bitulithic the cost would be S2S.647 . 11 per mile, or slightiy in excess of the previous Moran bid for reinforced concrete. Cost $:J2,379 a Mile. On the long stre'.ch of pavement, which includes the cost of considerable excavation exca-vation at the Point of the Mountain, near the boundary line between Salt Lake and Vtah counties, bids were from J. "YV. Mellen. Mel-len. n. total cost, exclusive of the cost of materials furnished by the state, of $256,-I22.9;i $256,-I22.9;i for Topeka mix, no bid being furnished fur-nished on bitulithic: by the Moran Paving company at S2t2.02G. 65, and bv Gibbons & Reed at $251,223.33 for laying either bitulithic or Topeka mix. This would bring the total cost to the state, it was estimated, to ?3u0.05t.S. or $32,379 per mile for bitulithic. on the low bid, and to 5o34.212.15. or $30. 055 per mile for Topeka To-peka mix. The bid of J. AY. Mellen on the previously advertised reinforced concrete con-crete was $29.5S7 a mile, the specifications specifica-tions being for pavement of the same aggregate width and thickness in all cases. An influential delegation was present to argue in favor of unsurfaced and unrein un-rein farced concrete as a road material suitable to solve tho road-building problems prob-lems of Vtah at the present time. The state road commission has had some experience ex-perience with this type of road, largely in Davis and Salt Lake counties. The delegation present yesterday included "VY. W. Kinney of Chicago, general manager of the- Port land Cement Association of America, who happened to be passing through I'tah; AY. J. Gilson, "VVlllard Ev-nns. Ev-nns. Ralph E. Bristol. J. M. Tlavs. F. M. Maher, AV. D. Long, Major J. S. Farley, secretary of the Manufacturers' association, associa-tion, and V. A. Tracy, also representing that associat ion. Mr. Kinney addressed the commission, giving extensive details as to the use of cement in road construction construc-tion In other states, saying that so far t his season about SO'i miles of cement roads had been contracted for. and listing list-ing many other pieces of work on which the contracts are to be let soon. Cement Favored. For the t tali Associated Industries there were presented telegrams from P. IS. Greene, state Highway crgincer of New York: Coleman bulVnt, holding a similar position in De'awa:.-, and a large number of others, jn favor of cemeii t const ruction, ruc-tion, some saying reinforcement was not pec.-'ss'iry. especially under certain conditions. con-ditions. Still u'.lnr telegrams refused to decide inv qiu-.-iio:is uniess familiar with local conditions. A letter was read from J. R.. GaJighrr. , president of the Associated Industries, supporting the idea of unsurfaced. tin-' reinforced eoner-H? as economical in first 1 o-st and upkeep, and a resolution was i:vloF"d. adopted yesterday by th di- j rectors of the association. io the effort: I "Thai the association indorse the use of unsurfaced. unreinforeed mm-rete ruad ' the type of construction which will, in j the judgment of the assn.-ir-.t iun. result in the greatest anvurit of crond to the industries in-dustries of th- btalc of 1 tnh and to its people, and will at the same time provide pro-vide a type of construction which is the most f.-nm "ideal r.s a mat t cr of initial cos ( and i h IcH is far If.v.s e pens! v in upkeep t ban ot h?r type a of construct ion i I pronrv-d. and we t!ieref.rp unhositatinply I comrnond it t" the state hiphwiiy enm-I enm-I rnissi'Mi and pledge, the sutport of the as-! as-! so'-'at iu.ni to it." Mr. Tra.-. in behalf of tlit Maimfnc- up'i'.V a.ssifiarion. presented the hearty 1 ind'.M'setnent of ; hat asiociati'.-u to the I resolutions and letter. |