The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-05
MORE PAVEMENT TROUBLES
CONTRACTOR HoBsoN's WORK
WILL BE INSPECTED.
Board of Public Works Gets Report
On Culmer-Jennings Co.'S Repairs
Bad Streets, Slippery Sidewalks.

Whether or not to accept the asphalt
pavement laid by a. L. Hobson on Sec
ond South street, from West Temple to
First West, as meeting the require
ments of the contract, will be deter
mined by the board of public works
this afternoon. The board held a meet
ing Saturday afternoon to make the
necessary Investigations, but the pave
ment was found too dirty to admit of
rigid inspection. Before this afternoon
the asphalt will be washed off and
made ready to be inspected. This ar
rangement was agreed to by Contractor
Hobson, and, in addition, he waived
any rights that might accrue to him by
reason of the inspection being deferred
from Saturday, which was probably
the last day, under the terms of ithe
contract, on which the board is re-
quired to take formal action.
This pavement was permitted to be
laid under a supplemental cash guar
anty of $1,000 that the asphalt covering,
which failed to meet all that was re-
CURED in the specifications, would wear
/ well for a term OF two years from Dec.
., 1896. City Engineer Kelsey is on
record as having opposed this action,
his contention being that the pavement
is not satisfactory contract work, and,
MN COfOl, iiOl ctS SQOQ do hllcil lIiS
abutting property was taxed to pay for,
! although it is now better than he ex-
pected it would be.
Mr.. Hobson was on his way east to
Kansas City from California, where he
has been filing pavement contracts
since leaving Salt Lake, when he read
in a Saturdays Herald, purchased at
Ogden, that the board was considering
the acceptance or otherwise of his West
Second South street work. The con-
tractor Immediately changed his course
of travel and arrived in this city in
time to look after his interests.
Relative to the repairs on the Main
and First and Second South street
pavement by the Culmer-Jennings Paw
ing company, to place the pavement in
the perfect condition required by the
contract at the end of the five-year
: guaranty period Inspector CLANCY re-
ported to the board that only about
half the area had received the atten-
/ ton of the repairing gang. On ac-
count of the cold weather, no work
was going on now, but to date f95
patches had been made in the asphalt
and the aggregate length of the COW
cred cracks was 5226 feet.
The board voted to notify the street
car companies to at once repair Their
stone block pavements. City Engineer
and Chairman Kelsey dissented, on the
ground that, according to the ordi-
nance, the city council shall give such
, notice, and failure to comply shall be
sufficient warrant to levy a special ta1
on the companies for funds to make
repairs under the city's direction
David E. Fullmer has proffered t
roughen slippery cement sidewalks BY
bush-hammering in spots, at the rate
j of 21a cents a square foot, or cent!
for thorough work. No certified checl
nor notice of acquiescence in specffica
tions accompanied the proposal, ant
Mr.. Fullmer was referred to the cit1
council. The lowest bid heretofore fo1
such work was that made by Stephe1
Tyne, but the council refused to ratif,
the contract.