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Show CONSTRUCTIVECRITICISM BY DISTRICT ENGINEER ,'Motivbors of tine governing' body of Salt Lako City struck: a serious olow at Hah labor and Utah Industry when on June 8 they awarded tho contract for paving 20,000 square yards In dlatrictNo. 181 with a California asphalt as-phalt product when home products would have served the purpose equally equal-ly well, If not better." This waa tho charge in an address by William F. Long, district engiB.eer of the Portland Cement association, before tho regular weekly luncheon of the Lions club at tho Hotel Utah Friday afternoon. V- "Such action on the part ot these Salt Iakoclty offlclnl,"Mr. I-onis said, "Is all the more astounding and difficult to explain when It is authoritatively author-itatively advised ha of h total of 2340.1! lineal feet o'f property In tho dlstrlrt on which resident owners voided opinion In tho mater of types In the form ot a petition nddressed to tho city officials, n representation of 73 per cent urged th use of Utah products In the form of concrete, whll0 but 27 per cent favored tho material ma-terial from outsldo the state. A representative rep-resentative of 622 additional feet expressed ex-pressed neutrality In the matter. "Concrete homo product were Included In-cluded In the specifications for the work and bids wore submitted therefor. there-for. However, tho requirement for this type wore made ao rigid as compared com-pared to the California material that there was positively no chance for local products to compete, at laaat on a price basis." After naming the throe types of paving on which blda wero submitted, submit-ted, Mr. Long gave quotations and statistics. He contended that had the homo product been used, Utah would have received considerable mora for Its money In labor, materials, and quality, Mr. Long summed up his arguments argu-ments for the use of homo products, by saying that concrete, after all. Is a product of Utah, resulting from a scientific combination of, rocks from Utah'a own mountains or the clay and marl from her flatlands, of coal from her fields, of th energy developed devel-oped from the fall of her waters and the musclo and brain of her workers. "Tho foregoing constructive criticism, criti-cism, for as such It Is Intended to be," ho said, "is presented for citizens citi-zens and taxpayers who are vitally con'cornod, clthor directly or Indirectly. Indirect-ly. I know that Salt Ijko will give It no more consideration than It has given tho coticroto product Itself. "Tho uso of concrole," he said, "tcndi vory materially to build up our stato and nt tho samo lino lighten the burden ot Individual taxation. Asphalt, As-phalt, on tho othor hand, is a California Cali-fornia product, nnd Its usu tends to build up that state, which suroly needs no help from us. I am sure that you, as tajiyers utll not regret having heard tlieao romnrks. It Is for the taxpuyora to docldo If our public officials of-ficials shall continue, to uso the products pro-ducts ot othor states In preference tp. homo products, or whether those homo products shall bo used to tho maximum extent possible consistent with good Judgement and sound business busi-ness principles." |