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Show u THAT NEW PAVEMENT. Tho city authorities ought to bo condemned con-demned for laying tho asphalt around tho city and county building as it has been laid. All reports to the contrary, that Is the best material ever used in this city. It Is the same as that in front of tho Dooly blocx, wnich has lain thero nlno years, and has never cost the city a cent for repairs. At tho time it was laid, Colonel Nelson of tho Tribune, and others, predicted that it would have to be "shoveled off" and now material laid. But the contrary was the case, and the block is in better bet-ter condition right now than many which have been laid very recently. While the asphalt laid at tho county building will adjust itself to tho conditions con-ditions and in time become a first-class pavement, more care should have been exercised in spreading it. Tho material is not mixed, as it should be, because a complete disintegration of tho asphalt and a proper mixing with tho sand contained in tho rock is not had ere laying. It is not heated thoroughly thor-oughly either, and is not laid undor the pressure that should bo given the material. Of course tralllc will in time do the work, but it should have been done before, for tho best interests of tho city. Because the Barber Asphalt people have already secured a column of space in tho Tribune, deriding the work, and the Herald hns taken a crack at tho job, and with apparent gcod reason. It is true tho material can be dug out' with a knife, and so could the material in front of the Dooly block. But as time has progressed, pro-gressed, and heavy traffic has rolled down the asphalt, that block has become be-come good, as will tho roads around the county building. Instead of closing clos-ing tho roadways they should be opened and give vehicles the chance to complete the work so badly begur-by begur-by tho authorities. Let them drive on, and if tho calks on tho horses feet do make indentations, no matter. In the next two months tho pavement will become first-class. There seems to be a concert of action ac-tion on the part of certain parties In this city to decry the use of homo ma-torlal. ma-torlal. And tho city authorities, after buying a piece of asphalt ground tha:.-which tha:.-which thero is no better m use anywhere, any-where, play3 right into tho hands of tho manufactured asphalt people by doing poor work. Had that piece of pavement been laid properly, the enemies ene-mies of Utah asphalt would have been forever silenced; ns it is, it will take two or three months cro their clamor will bo stopped. But in tho meat time other paving work Is contemplated, and instead of using tho Utah product as would have been tho caso had this work been properly done, tho nrnn. orty owners will bo timid and will give tho outsiders a chanco to got a lot of homo money that ought to have remained at home. Now despite tho ciamor raised bv tho outside asphalt men, Truth wilt state that thero is llttlo doubt that this pavement on tho loint building grounds, poorly laid as It is, will outlast out-last and outwear tho outside com-pany's com-pany's materials, and that time will demonstrate tho truth or the assertion, asser-tion, as it did in tho caso of tho block in front of tho present postofflco. But the pity of it. When one str s der how much wo are hi, . ,' co"- sidors and tho further ra' y. out- have at our very doors relic-. T 8 ono want to kick somebody . 3 (03 so penny wise and pound t, , Ins have been those in charge as ing around the joint bulldln Pav' |
