The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-24
WILL Be BIDDERS.
Barber Asphalt Company to
Have Competition.
Anti Trust Companies Win
Take a Hand.
TO OPEN on MAY ).
Councilmen Interest Themselves
in Protecting City.
Fear Engineers Specifications
Are Not Broad Enough.

There are said to be about 20 sub
sidiary companies in the Barber asphalt
paving trust, and the expectation is
that several of them will be on hand in
Topeka on May with bids on the pro-
posed fve-year pavement repair con-
tract to be awarded on that date.
Several members of the city council
have interested themselves in protect
ing the city from entering into another
contract with the Barber Asphalt COM
pany, and are endeavoring to secure the
names of such of the subsidiary COM
panies as are likely to be represented
in the bidding Among other companies
in the Barber trust are the following.
together with smaller companies owned
or afhliated by these:
Gilsonite company
New Trinidad Lake Asphalt Co.. Ltd.
NUlcanite Paving Co
Western Paving and Supply Co. Of
Illinois
United Asphalt Co.
Trinidad Bituminous Asphalt Co.
Southern Paving and Construction Co.
Rock Greek Natural Asphalt Co.
Richardson & Ross Asphalt Paving
company.
Columbia Contract and Construction
company.
Assyrian Asphalt Co.
Pennsylvania Asphaltum Paving Co.
Barber Asphalt Co
view OK ana B0llQuQeZ 20.
New Jersey Asphalt Co.
National Contracting Co.
Buffalo Construction Co.
Mack Paving Co
lroqucis Iron Works.
Ind. Bernudez Asphalt Co.
Grant Paving Co.
Gibson Asphaltum CO.
Colorado Paving Co.
Bormudez Asphalt Paving Co.
American Contracting Co.
Alcatraz Paving co.
arren-Scharf Co.
It is also claimed by some that the
Buckhorn deposits in Indian Territory
are also controlled by the trust, but this
is eInphatically denied. J. Bradley of the
! Topeka Roofing company, declares that
the BuckhOrn mines cover a wide range
Of territory, and are owned by dozens of
| different people
KICK ON SPECIFICATIONS
The ohje ctions to the pavement re-
pair specification of City Engineer
( MeCabe are still coming in. The natural
rock asphalt people who are the main
/ sist that the requirements of the speci-
{ fications are such that natural rock
/ pavement has no chance in the compe-
/ tition.
| City Engineer McCabe said today:
! The natural rock section was put into
! the specifications at the order of the
council. and appears there exactly as the
I council ordered, and exactly as it is
/ DIJulEQ III luG dSJndll SDEGlnCdtlOIlo III
! Kansas City. 1 do not believe that the
I binder course is anything the natural
/ rock people can object to-
! William L. BTeyfogle, the editor of TIE
| American Asphalt Journal, has sent to
1 the State Journal a copy of asphalt
/ pavement specifications which he says
are entirely satisfactory and fair to all
! pavement companies in the world, trust
! and antitrust.
The difference between the specifica-
tions submitted by Mr.. Breyfogle and
/ the ones drawn up by City Engineer
! AfcCabe is that Mr.. AcCabe's specIfica-
tions call for binder course under
natural rock, and also specify that the
natural rock asphalt must come from
/ Breckenridge county. Kentucky, or
! from the ChickaSha nation, Indian Ter
/ ritory. He also mentions the Buck
| horn mines as the source of the btu
minous lime rock required The Brey-
1 fogle specifications are simply these:
Said asphalt pavement shall be made
Of natural rock, which shall consist of
no other material than said natural
rock composed OF pure asphalt and fine
/ silicious sand, and it shall be thorough
/ ~ disintegrated and of a uniform and
| homogeneous quality"
The only trouble with City Engineer
McCabe's specifications seems to be
that they are not quite broad enough
| but it is to be hoped that they viii not
bar out free and full competition on the