Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-06-10 | Page 4 | Cheap Pavement

CHEAP IPA PAVEMENT T THE lE city commission has decided to experIment experiment ment upon the surface of defective street pavement by applying a coat of oil and gravel The pavement to be thus shabbily treated has deteriorated because it was not properly laid or because inferior or insufficient materIals materials materials ma ma- were used Engineers reported to the commission that an asphalt surface upon a certain stretch of defective street pavement would cost 2000 while oil and gravel would cost about one- one fifth that amount Of course the commission took the nIggardly niggardly nig fig gardly way out by ordering the cheaper work entirely ignoring the fact that the property owners who bought the pavement in the first place paid a first-class first price for shoddy ma ma- Oil and gravel will hide the cracked and broken surface of the concrete for a while but the deteriorating legacy of inefficiency or worse will still remain