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Show WARFARE OF PAVK1G CORPOSATIOS PgOIliSED WHEN SURFACtriG OF THIaD AVENUE COHES UP Asphalt or bltullthle? Thl la the aw big question which th present city council coun-cil or the comminion form of government will have to pass on when It comes to consider the petition of property owners on Third avenue from A street to en-oral en-oral Heights and the Intersecting streets from Third avenue to South Temple street- . A number of petition for the eurferlnt of atreeta of thlo aectlon will be presented present-ed within a ehort time. Two set of pe-tltlona pe-tltlona are being circulated, and each la being lgned by a majority of the Property Prop-erty owner., according to st.wment. made thla morning. The first pel t Ion. e.klna for the psvin- of Third avenue from A street to th rrvtlon. been la circulation for aom lime, as well aa on for th pavtna of the atreeta run. nlng north from Booth Temple to Third avenue. It ! I4 that bv far the m.lor-lly m.lor-lly af th property ownera haa alaneil thl petition, which calls for no epuclal kind of pavement. . , . Thla petition waa about to be ' to th city council when a proteat waa tarted oa th part of more than one property owner that the petition did not tat what kind of pacement waa to be laid. It la aJd that many property owner own-er declared that If the atreete were to be mradmtBed. like Second avnu or Tenth Kasl .treeta from LcJlh to rifth South, they would withdraw their name. It 1 admitted that tr macadamising macad-amising of theee etreet coat lea than MDh.lt pevlns. but It t claimed that the property owner, simply Paid o much per front foot for "' mud In winter, and that either because the pavement waa not properly leld the material waa not what It sMmM have been, both atreeta are In such condition that th property owner will have to pay for a nw pavmnt If they waai a decent atreet. New Company Makes Claim. Th laat month or two a nev pavlnir concern haa entered the field, and Irom preeent Uidlcatlona will make a Wrong bid for th pavtna of the mw district Petition hav been drenlatsd In the pro-poeed pro-poeed dtetrlct. and It la Bald "JeTal y signed, that th dletrlct b paved with bltullthle. . tt,,m The company holding the patent on this pavlna maj om .Trong clallbj for It. The patent fT pavement we J"r?d In 1K01 by P. J. Warren. Before the jndof the preeent year more than auar yard of thla pavement will have beeat taM to th. United Bute and Can-.da. Can-.da. mor. th.n aufflclent to pave a thirty-foot roadway from Salt Lak City to "Vt u"Sr.fmil that th. w pav;m.nt doea not crack, aa do aaPhalt. that It doe not absorb watr and Irtntear.t Ilk macadam, that while the orlalnaJ cost I about the earn aa sspl;"-, " last o much longer that It la far cheaper. ' New Law Admits It. It is claimed that the reaaon that this claa of paving haa not been tried In Jily before waa on account of a law P In Utah which prohibited the ua of patented pat-ented material fn public work. This law waa. however, repealed by the m by the laat legt.l.ture of hou hill r.o. si. by Allieon. Thl. bill, which "' th ahortest ever Introduced In the Ulan leal.lature. reader . "That aectlon MIX!, compiled ! rtah. 1907. b. and the aame ia hereby "fieclton 1JXJ of the compiled laws of Utah 1907 waa as follow.: Patented article, or prooea. prohibiten prohib-iten no city, town or municipal corporation corpor-ation .hall adopt plan, or apeclflcatlona for any public Improvement, which re-qulree re-qulree the enrluelve uee of any patentea article or proceae. or any article or pro-ceaa pro-ceaa nroteeted bv any trade mark, or any article or process wholly controlled oy anv person, firm or corporation or combination com-bination thereof." . . It haa een reneatedly claimed that this section of the rtah law waa paseed at the Inottcatlon of the so called asphalt trust, with a view of keepina out of Utah anythin except the product of that concern. con-cern. It waa aaaerted during the committee com-mittee hearing on the Allieon bill that the law aa It .food waa working to the detriment of the cltle of the tt nd hould be repealed. It Is said that a. the direct result of th repeal of that section of the Utah lawe. the new company ha. entered the field with a view of securing business in this snd other Uteh cities. Officers of the new pavlna aystem say that Strange A Magulre. who laid the asphalt as-phalt On Third South .treet. from Mate to Tenlh Ea.t streets, last year, now have a contract for the laving of the new pavement In Klamath Palla. Or. Property owner In the proposged new district declare that aH thev want la the beet that ran be secured for the money which they pay. It wa. .aid i thlj morning morn-ing that the company which has the new process would likely lav a .mall aectlon of street In thl city and hav It ubmlt-ted ubmlt-ted to the severest possible teat. In competition com-petition with the other niethode of paving. |