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Show ZEN Published Every Saturday GOODWIN'S WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO INC. -- 7 AJ: W. RAYBOULD,. Manager E. SCIEFSKI, Editor SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: a. i In the United Canada and Mexico, 2.50 per year, States, .Hiding postage to all Subscriptions foreign countries, within the Postal )r six months. BY per year. $4.50 Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. ;.N Address aJ) communication a to The Citizen. Entered ' as secondclass matter, 1919, at the postofllce at 8alt Lake c Utah under the Act of March 3, 31112-1Phone Wasatch 6409 Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah A- - T?' 3 SAFE INVESTMENTS liere are many people who look around for safe investments, that will bring good returns in interest in a large d business is about as safe as investments can be. Of course If all the streams s a certain risk attached to all investments. west dried up, the Utah Power and Light Company would be iinst it as far as water power is concerned and such a condition If the not doubt greatly effect the standing of the company. ould run out in Utah, the Utah Gas and Coke Company would o import coal, to make its gas or become a defunct institution. Silver King Coalition or Tintic Standard mines could find no Thus it can be tore, these properties would become liabilities. lat there is a certain risk in all investments, but the risks in sub-i- l properties and business enterprises are so slight that it can ely said that there is absolutely no risk in purchasing such restment es-ie- and Coke Company is now offering the public preferred stock which will pay more than 7 per cent interest is doubtful if such stock will rmain long on the market. To ewho has a little money saved up there is no better opportunity ) place a few hundred or a few thousand in a local enterprise, the Gas company. You are not only helping to build up your y industry, but you are making money as well. Hpre is an to make seven per cent on idle money; such opportunities ITie Utah Gas is op-iit- themselves every day. e Utah Gas and Coke Company is a growing firm. The larger y grows the larger will this corporation become in this commu-ndth- e stronger, financially. Being a local concern, the local should see to it that they become the owners, instead of allow-- e outsiders to gobble up all the stock. present 4 PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRIES. are commencing to wonder just how much longer our of streets is to be allowed to betray in his present the industrial and commercial interests of the state of people 'ssioner high-bann- er tis becoming more and more apparent to even the most casual er that the supposedly paved streets of this city are a disgrace "Nnicipality, a jn the menace to traffic and an altogether unwarranted pocketbooks of an exasperated public. , far-fame- d nt 110 non-technic- al nature? Many people remember the trend of events that lead up to the property owners on Fourth East street paying approximately forty cents a running foot more than was necessary, and against the recommendations of the engineering department, for a pavement in no way the equal of that of lower cost and this, too, in the face of strenuous protest on the part of a majority of the taxpayers interested. Now we have the following example of what one man can do to militate against the best interests of one of Utahs chief industries and to discount the purchasing value of the taxpayers dollar: It is proposed to pave Military Drive and other streets on the east bench. There are specified for this project two types of construction as follows: A three inch asphaltic or bituminous base with a two inch topping of a similar material. A plastic pavement of California material upon part of which an excessive royalty is demanded.. Against this is specified a seven inch Portland cement concrete pavement of latest design and composed of all Utah materials; a type of construction recognized by no less an authority than the United States Bureau of Public Roads as being of the best and rapidly being adopted by many of the leading cities of the nation as their standard street construction. The best engineering authorities of the country claim that inch for inch in thickness these pavements should cost the same. This being the fact, then why should the Utah pavement be handicapped by two inches of thickness and Utah industries discriminated against accordingly? Can it be that someone has an axe to grind and finds it expedient to favor California manufacturers as against those of Utah, or is.the head of our Street department so woefully deficient in knowledge as to what should and should not be done as to warrant the people demanding his immediate resignation and the appointment of someone more capable of properly administering the affairs of this department? $ ROAD VS. TRUCK $ $ sc r cities are profiting by mistakes of the past, are revolution-ei- r methods and manners of construction and relegating to the d those materials that are of proven inefficiency and that are t comply with the requirements of present day traffic. Salt many ways Queen City of the West continues, however, in ne rut and bumps along over corrugated surfaces that put the J? trenches of Flanders. Clly, 'v'. believe, has a most capable and efficient engincer-Partmewhich, if permitted to function without interference, doubt pve to the people a service equal to that of any other , city of similar size and importance in the country. As it is, however, we have information to the effect that specifications submitted by this technical department and approved by it for certain projects were, upon presentation to the commissioner of streets, revised, changed and in one case at least, omitted, because they did not comindividual. Of ply with the whims and desires of this what use is an engineering department under conditions of this The road of todqy is not destroyed by the heavier truck and most all 'talk to the contrary is blabber by the uninformed. The Lincoln Highway Forum says that Secretary of Agriculture W. M. Jardine, in a recent address before the Midwest Transportation Conference, at Chicago, undertook to destroy several fallacies which recent investigation by the Bureau of Public Roads of the Department of Agriculture have demonstrated as such. He stated that changed conditions in connection with highway transportation had made many beliefs which were true enough several years ago, inaccurate and that the public |