Show CITY aty DADS FAVOR PAVING the result of the visit of mayor J F erdmann and members of the city council to salt lake city last week to inspect the various kinds or of street paving is that the city dads favor the formula above them all the officials were taken to salt lake city as guests of bros who are doing a big job of this kind of paying paving in in the fashionable federal heights district and a splendid opportunity was afforded to ib study the difference between the tom composition position of and asphaltum asp hallum paving for most of the street paving in salt lake city has been done with asphalt and where the new pavement was joined on an to the eld tile the difference between the mixtures was easy to discern on capitol hill another stretch of pa paving is being connected with the asphalt pavement and large chunks ot of both kinds of pavement were broken out so that th the e composition of each could be more closely studied the city officials were driven over the splendid murray otate state highway which was laid a year ago an and was recognized as the finest concrete road in the intermountain west the our surface Is wearing ott off and some extensive repairs will be necessary before another year it if the highway is maintained in proper shape the officials were also taken to the mixing plant where the compound is prepared and there saw the process which the material goes thru to prepare the proper grade for street surfacing and it was these things that determined the city dads to select as the best and cheapest kind of paying paving for brigham cites main street when that work Is undertaken nothing but the cleanest rock coarse gravel and then fine sand gosi goes into the bitti mixture which is patented by its discoverer and when the job is completed the road surface is not hard but has the resiliency of rubber with a first class wearing surface E tery thing wears out in time of cours but by reason of the texture of this material it lasts a long time and responds quickly to the influence of beat and cold without breaking all to pieces the paving costs more than does the asphaltum aspli altum paving the price of the two jobs being done in salt lake city at the present time shows that the first named costs just 8 cents per square yard more than aspli asphalt alt is being put in for per square yard arid and asphaltum for per square yard there is another grade of paving the ordinary concrete road and then the sheet asphalt over aver macadam but the city officials became converted that of all tile the various k kinds was superior and the proper kind to decide upon tor for the work to be done in this city just when the paving of main street will begin cannot be announced at this time for the reason atiat a notice of intention must lie bi published and the property owners riven ivan an opportunity to their wishes relative to making the tl a after which bids must be advertised advertise for and then the work rom coninx icca 1 it t is very improbable that anything will be done except the preliminary work this summer |