The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-09
GREAT is GRANITE.
The Best Material With Which
to Pave Our Streets.
MR.. JOHN RYAN'S EXPERIENCE.
There is No Use in Salt Lake COmmencins
Where Other Cities Left OFF.
AS to Asphalt.

"There is no use of this city commencing
way John Ryan put it to his honor, the
mayor, when the question of wood paving
was preached, the other day
Mr.. Ryan's experience in paving dates
back for twenty years including streets al
Albany and Troy, N. Y, though he has
recently been engaged in laying nine miles
of sewerage for Pueblo, Col.
''You know something of street paving
Clipped in THE HERALD reporter.
81 have done all kinds of wood, cobble-
stone and granite block paving" assented
Mr.. Ryan.
(which kind do you consider the best for
this city.''
Cali other things being equal, stone by
all means. The eastern cities have tried
wood, and found it failure; too short
lived. There is the same objection to
Nicholson as there is to Miller pave
ment and white cedar. In Nebraska and
Missouri, where much wood pavement is
used, the trouble is that when it wears
down three inches the bond is loosened and
it breaks loose and cannot again be
fastened down. A great deal of asphalt is
being used, but it is also
SHORT LIVED AND EXPENSIVE.
1t is a steady tax and expense on the
property owners, or the city. Its life is
not warranted at all; the contractors only
agreeing to keep it in repair for five years,
and for this they usually charge from 10
to 20 cents per yard. AT Kansas City they
put it down for $3.50 per yard, while at
Denver they ask 49,"
''ls asphalt not growing into popularity?''
mo, it is the other way"
1.-The pavement for this city should be
rock as you have an abundance of it.''
''Have you examined the granite here!'
81 have seen the granite at the temple
and would pronounce it good quality for
paving stone.''
sit is claimed that this granite is too
soft.n
mo granite can be too soft for paving.
When the stone is TOO hard it wears off
round and becomes polished, making it
slippery for the horses to gain a foothold
while if it is soft it wears off event.
Glow long will soft granite last?n
'There is no such thing as granite wear
ing OUT the softest will last as long as
your city,
What is the method of preparing it?''
"Granlte has no rift and will break
lengthwise, crosswise or diagonally which
ever way you hit it with hammer You
can take
A GRANITE BLOCK SIX FEET THICK,
drill a row of holes and plug and feather
it, and it will split clear through
What size blocks are best. for street
paving?"
would advise using blocks from to !
inches wide, to II inches long and from Z
to inches thick. Some cities use longer
sizes, but a short block on an arched street
makes smoother pavement, as the Joints
do not break as abruptly. Short blocks
conform better to the curve line.'
What is the cost of preparing these
blocks?n
The quarries in Maine and Massachu-
sets, which furnish much of the granite
| for the eastern cities. get them out for
| from Is to cents each. You ought TO be
able to prepare them here for at least Z
cents, and as twenty-five blocks will pave
square yard, the expense would not be
great.n
''What other expense is attached 10 Law
ing granite pavement?"
After the street is graded proper foun-
dation, a foundation must be secured that
Will act as drainage. In the east it was
the custom to lay the blocks on founda
ton of concrete. but this is now done away
with as an useless expense. In city like
| yours where there is
A GRAVEL FOUNDATION
very little sand will do, as the natural sol
furnishes good drainage. Four inches Of
sand would be sufficient, In this way one
load of sand would lay three wards of paw
ing. have paved lots of streets for from
81 to $3.50 a yard.n
What about pouring tar in the joints?'
This is also useless expense A little
sand dropped on the street and swept be-
tween the joints will work down and hold
| the blocks together as well as the tar
Earring is all monkey business. l DEFY
you to take out block with two crowbars
IN fifteen minutes after it has been rammeC
with sixty pound steel rammer. You sec
the hammers strike every block, and il
there is any defect in it, it will break. whe1
it must be replaced with another stone.n
WHO was the originator of block stone
pavements!'
Jack Stimpkins, of the Rockport
Granite company, of Cape Cod, laid the
hrst street IN this country, at New
OrleanSn
what contractor made the biggest
steal!"
Charles Gidean, Dutch Frenchmar
got 81. 80 yard for paving Broadway New
York, and made a millon and half dol
lars out OF the job. He also got s.. 80 fol
the concrete making SO yard in all.'
You did not mention the price for lay
ingm
Contractors estimate this at 25 cents Del
yard including hauling the stone, laying
and ramming"
The width of the streets to be paved in
this city is estimated at thirty feet OF
either side, which would make the expense
per foot front just about the same as {
a yard OF block pavement. In other words
man would have to pay for as many
yards OF paving as he has feet of AUDITING
property on the street
There will be a meeting of the Real Es
tate board at the Chamber of Commerce.
rooms on Wednesday evening, March -
at 7:30. VIM. FILLER, President
A. j.. GUNNELL, Sec.
H. BAMBERGER-REA ESTATE.
Under McCornick's bank. Long resi-
dence In Salt Lake. A number of desirabl,
properties for sale See mine.
YOU CAN MAKEMONEY