Show A boom c al for carbon asphalt the decision of tho the salt lake and ogden municipal authorities to use nothing bat utah rock asphalt in future paving contracts has lent a decided impetus to the opening up of the vast deposits of this material that I 1 lie e a few miles beloy 1 sunnyside Sunny side in this county there is a mountain of this rock or sand asphalt about 7 miles from sunnyside Sunny side and a good wagon road which will materially reduce the cost of transportation between the mine and sunnyside Sunny side where connection is made the D R G is being built on the more difficult part of the road the two miles lying nearest the mide is being spent it is planned in the near future to build an aerial tram which will carry the asphalt forn f orn the mine to td d a point in the canyon in in which sunnyside Sunny side is situated from there a short wagon haul will it to the railroad it is a well known fact that the asphaltum uro used in street paving 1 is is shipped to the point where it is to bi ba u used sed in a pure state it Js is then midd m axa with sand in the proportion of 80 parts of sand to 20 of the pure asphaltum the sand asphalt in the big deposit below sunnyside Sunny side has been mixed by nature in about the right proportions and very little further preparation is necessary this it I 1 is claimed however is a drawback ini stead of an advantage and will limit its ita market to a radius of a few hundred mil esthe fact that the sand has to be hauled instead of added at destination making the freight rate prohibitive it is the hope of the promo promoters tore however to eventually pave every olty in utah as well as a large part cf ef the state highways with this material |