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Show STILL ARGUE OVER PAVING MATERIAL SALT LAKE, Nov. 1. Two hours of argument yesterday before the state I road commission failed to result in any final decision as to the type of in ad i lai which win b used in the iu-ink' iu-ink' of th- Brlgham-Corlnne highway. The u.so of bituminous concrete against Portland cement was the Issue. Is-sue. , A recent decision of the tnle road i run in i -. Ion v is . n fa vol of lhe I 'orl - kind cemunl typo on ihe Brigham Corlnne road In Box Elder county, as being the lowest in cost, after the bids were opened, of the three types advertised. ad-vertised. These types were declurd by engineers for the state road ' pmmls-slon pmmls-slon and tho federal bureau of public roads to be comparable as to their abllltj to stand up under the truffle to which the road Is likely to be subjected. sub-jected. A majority of the BOX Elder commission com-mission favored In preference a Portland Port-land Cement concrete type, with a bituminous bi-tuminous surfacing, known as the "squeegee seal coat." Commissioner Brlgham Wright and Chairman Alberl Holmgren wcro ot this opinion. Commissioner Com-missioner J J, Cramer favoring the solid Portland cement concrete, wllh steel rclnrorcements tor about 30 per cent of the distance. This was the typo on which the state road commission commis-sion awarded the contract. Thc successful bidders. Gibbons & Reed, were low also on the "black top" types advertised at the same time. The majority of the Hox Elder COm-mosslon COm-mosslon bad expressed a willingness to pay the extra S&.OOO and to award tho contract for the black top The state road commission felt that, ln- asmuch as the responsibility fell on it, an.l inasmuch as li was puidb moni even though contributed solely by ih-taxpayers ih-taxpayers of Box Elder county, it could not accept other than the low bid for a comparable type. |