The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-22
MUNICIPAL MATTERS
Some of the Advantages OF Strad-
amant MaStic Payements.
WHERE THE MATERIAL is USED
A Man who Says the Council is Simply Beg
ging 10 be Enjoined, So They Can
Use it in Defense.

The feeling of the city council in regard
to the advisability of laying brick sidewalk
pavements seems to have under gone de-
cided change since the proposition was
first introduced, which may be largely at
tributed TO the antagonsion of the tax pay
ers to brick. True, the plan of the council
was to select brick, but still leave it to the
choice Of the tax payers whether or not
some other material should be used IN front
of their property, but this would result in
patchwork walk which should be avoided
If possible. The Stradamant mastic pave
ment is looked up with great favor by the
city officials and by such taxpayers as are
at all familiar with the material. There
are three grades of this pavement, the
hghtest Of which would cost only - per
cent for square foot The second grade,
which consists Of a good base and a ] "a
inch finish, costs about 10 cents per
square foot. This second grade has
been fully tested in Ogden and
gives complete satisfaction. The walks
from the Union depot at Ogden to the
town, are of this grade, and were laid by
David Kay. The material is meeting with
great favor elsewhere. 1t was selected for
the walks at the Stanford university, Palo
Alto, California, and great deal of it is
being laid at Seattle, Tacoma, Portland,
San Francisco and elsewhere. 1t has been
laid at the ferry landing in San Francisco,
and all who have seen il there are satisfied
that it makes q most durable and satisfac-
tory pavement, either for streets or side
walks. 1t was recently tested at Mare
Island navy yard, and an unsupported top
one inch thick stood a pressure of l,0S0
pounds. The third grade, which is pro-
posed TO be laid here, costs SLIGO per ineal
foot for an S-foot walk, or Sl.20 cents per
lineal foot for a 6-foot walk. This cost is
about double the cost of brick, and fully
as much as cement, but there
is no doubt but that it is
superior to either, and it would go down
under five years guarantee. AS stated at
the city council last Tuesday night the
pavement has been laid in Chicago, on a
corner of Madison street, and after being
subjected to the hardest kind of usage by
heavy vehicles, is still in perfect condition,
and Supervisor Mccain is enthusiastic
over it. Its textile strength is one and a
half times greater than Portland cement,
and its great advantage over that material
is that the base and tops are one mass, as
has been SHOWN, by experiments on the
sample here. Another point in its favor
is that so per cent of the material used IN
its manufacture are produced here, and il
will be manufactured in Salt Lake. To dc
this steam Jacket plant, costing 81, 600,
will be brought here ana Mr.. Remington
says this plant is all ready to be shipped.
All Mr. Remington asks is that
the material be given fair
test and then he will be willing to leave il
with the taxpayers. To this end it is ex
pected that the council will designate one
district, probably First East street, ap6
designate this class of material as the kind
TO be used. Then, while the notice of in.
tention is being advertised, Mr.. Remington
will lay one block of his pavement at his
own risk, and if it is not entirely satisfac
tory he will stand the expense.
As to brick pavements, it may be sale
that they are everywhere being replaced
with other material.
Mr.. Barton, the superintendent of the
company for which Mr.. Remington il
acting, will be here on Monday night. Mr.
Barton was a successful lawyer and some.
thing of musician, being the author Of the
famous "Razzle DAZZLE and he gave VI
the law to get an interest in this pavement