| Show work starts to pave west center street using utah rock asphalt property owners and city cooperate grading was started monday on west center street preparatory to 0 o laying rock asphalt pavement dong along this from main to the hiah school campus at about fifth yes ves it is expected the work of laying the n pavement which is to be b a strip 30 feet wide will be aled next IV monday Inday according to jahs V christensen chistensen city engineer who is supervising the project under direction of the streets project committee from the city council G W coons J orvil hansen and J lerue ogden at the same time asphalt will be laid on the block adjoining the city park on north main negotiations for the center street project have been under way for several weeks A resolution was adopted by the city council in regular session thursday evening approving a petition for such a project the petition signed by property owners along the street pledges that the owners will vill pay 70 cents per front foot of their property for cost of material the city to furnish labor under a general streets improvement program this action was taken to speed the project up and avoid necessity of making a special improvement district and collecting by taxation rock asphalt is being used on a number of paving projects in utah and neighboring states the city of price has some 16 miles of its residential streets surfaced with this material the city of provo began its surfacing with utah rock asphalt six years ago and just finished its block covering approximately 30 miles preston idaho has begun rock asphalt surfacing work and several era I 1 other idaho towns as well as evanston wyoming plan to use this material according to wesley king representative of the rock asphalt company of utah recently the state of nebraska made tests of various types of natural rock asphalt found in the united sta states tes and selected utah rock asphalt as being superior to the other products an appreciable boost was given the utah rock asphalt industry through the efforts of the associated civic clubs of southern utah and the southern utah associated socia ted industries the rock asphalt company of utah has developed a natural deposit of the material found in the mountainside near sunnyside Sunny side in carbon county and containing hundreds of millions of tons of this nature made surfacing material it is predicted by those in the know that utah rock asphalt will eventually make utah famous because road paving and sidewalk building now constitute one of the major activities in the united states and while there are five deposits of natural rock asphalt in the country only one of them that at sunnyside Sunny side utah contains the exact ration of natural asphaltum bitumen and silica sand which comply with the specifications laid down by the federal research bureau at washington D C and the federal bureau of roads 10 per cent asphaltum 90 per cent silica sand |
