Show ASPHALT MIXER I l tl I HAS HAS' DISAPPEARED Breath of Scandal Again Felt Feltin Feltin in American Street 0 Department r t CITY LOSES LOSES- MONEY TOO s. s 1 r Paving Repairs Cost Much More M ore by I JY Virtue v of 0 f the Loss 1 is i p c Following the mysterious f a ance aulce of oC the poll tax records s from loom the 1 street department comes the he i. i that the asphalt mixing plant ilant f. f that was us used d with profit ant and success j by y the lie ell city up ulI to 1906 has dropped ri f- f out of ot sight und and not nor only are arc the all at attaches at- at l tj of the street department in ut utter ut- ut r t let ter 1 1 ignorance of oC thi the valuable lc equipment equip equip- ment hut but ut the tite present clerk says s 's he heat at never Jw heard of It Jt The Tho annual report t l l A of Jake Take Raleigh h for fOl l ll 1007 07 Oi does not mention the equipment The disappearance of the a mixing ng plant ilant has II linked II lail the lie street department anti and its HM supervisor with another scandal In the report of ur the street department for fOl 1905 Jh 1110 he closing year car of or th the thit Morris on tile the asphalt mixer was valued at l I 1210 In Ill addition to tu this mixer there was other oilier l equipment which th the city bought hought In 1901 from flom ruin a a. contractor If who went vent broke luJ at nt Or Ogden cn The en en- en I tiro equipment was as valued at hut the city paid laid about 1000 for it City DM 1 Us lis 11 0 l I When hell the lie cil city ha had possession sion of uC tho lie asphalt plant the tho j repairs were vei-c v done lolie by r the tho city and alid motley money was vas The following follo Is g taken from Lf f the annual animal report of of ot the thc street department cut In referring to time the laying of or as- as y- y around time the city and county building I T wish to briefly state stale that i although working un under el great dise dis- dis e v a advantages we were cre able to save Lave l a on this work worl between what the thc contractors r- r tot tors charge and antl the thc figure it was done lone for fOl or The Time contractors contractor's price for fur I.- I. this kind l of oC work worl has not nut been J less les s sf f than 10 per ym yard while we did hl It it for 1 14 time the sa hi saving to lo time the city r mill and county being Gl lI l. l I I also cull cuB your attention to the repairing on pavement on un Main Iahn State Slate West l Temple and mill First and Second South streets The sammie same amount of oC work by ly contract last year veal cost cust the city 10 per yard while this year rC when we dl lid did time tile work o ourselves It only cost a R saving t of StIO 82 1 10 CoSts Co Cil City More mc It will be iC noted In ill strong contrast to this statement that with the he disappearance dis dis- 18 appearance of the tile city's equipment for COI repairing asphalt streets the work worle now nov costs per square yard ard a- a loran Iolan does the work for tills this amount while the time city was able to do llo it il with Its Us equipment for 75 it 5 cents own a square yard ald he difference IU r In cost will u i n t th t h it i ap- ap tl or 1110 mixing machine machine-ami n arl l ma material Frank R. R Christensen en clerk cierI IJ of time the board of public pu works has started out outto outto to Ii find the tile the equipment but he wont won't go flU far because It is decreed that It shall shah not lint be lie found Like the poll tax books book that lint disappeared the he asphalt plant must be e a a. thing of I the time past It Il mu must t h he forgotten In Imi the 1 07 re report report re- re port POlL o of Jake Jale hl no Inventory Is given at all Neither Is the property listed in the 1906 report i. i |