Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-20
FOURTEEN PLAIN VIOLATIONS.
Ordinary Observation Should
Convince Any One That Street
Work is Huge BIunder.
MANY Miles More OF Such Contract TO
BE Hurried Through by the
City Administration.

In view of the fact. that the city
authorities. as stated by the engineer,
arc about to clinch the bargain for
hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth more of the condemned and
discredited street paving recently in
nicted on Third West, Second West,
sixth street and elsewhere. the
News" urges the people to be awake
to their interests as taxpayers and to
the welfare of the city.
There 10 other evidence as to the
worth or worthlessness of the the
city's recently macadamlzed streets, of
their untitness. to be presented at the
proper time; but for the present 1t
seems sufficient to submit the case to
the observation Nand Judgment of an
intelligent public. before presenting
other phases of 1t.
POINTS TO OBSERVE.
For the present it is urged that
those Interested should satisfy them
selves by direct, personal observa-
ton.
The people who live along the
streets on which matchmaking by the
city is now going on would do we'll
to observe closely the process. not
ing particularly the eight violations
OF the rules for road construction
previously published in this paper.
Observations should be made in or
der to answer more particularly the
following questions.
l. Is the foundation made hard
and thoroughly compacted by rolling,
preferably also by the working in
OF sand and gravel before any brok-
en- stone Is laid? If not. the city is
employing a method condemned by
authority. as on Second avenue.
2, Are the stones screened? II so,
one of the worst frauds or blunders,
according to authority, IS being per-
petrated upon the taxpaying property
that Is supposed to be benefited by
the paving. This was the case on
Second avenue. on the occasions of
the reporters visits.
5. Is clay. dust. or soil of any kind
completely excluded from mingling
with the broken rock? If not. there
is another serious and costly fraud,
or blunder as on Second avenue
when observed one week ago.
4. Is sand, gravel, or some other
material employed in sufficient guam
tity to fill the interstices among the
broken rock? If not, as on Second
avenue the pavement Is at fault.
s. Is each successive layer of broken
stone thoroughly compacted by rolling
before another layer Is added? If not,
the road will be loose, like that which
the writer has inspected on the avenue.
6. Are stones larger than three
in. dimensions mingled with the smaller
ones? IL so, here is another error, as
was observed on Sixth and Twelfth
East. as well as on the avenue.
Z. Is the screened stone assorted in
layers, the largest at the bottom? II
So the larger pieces will work to the
surface, as observed In various parts OF
the city work with this kind OF paving
5. is layer of stone dust used to
cover tho surface OF the compacted
stone. as was the case on some OF
the work observed? If so, the road
will be a disappointment, as is the
case with all the city's macadamized
roads to date.
3. Is the soil surface rolled thorough
ny from tho extreme outer edges TO the
center, beginning on the edges? II not,
as In the case observed on Second
avenue, the road will not be solid.
10. Is the binder thoroughly wetted,
and thoroughly rolled in, so that the fin
ished surface resembles mosaic work
If not, and no such good example was
seen anywhere during the inspection,
the work Is not really finished.
IL Would stone be broken under
the roller. before 1t could be crushed
into the road? If not, and no pave
ment of such hardness was observed
here. the work would be condemned
upon proper inspection.
u. VIII the newly finished road en-
ldure heavy sweeping with the citys
steel brooms? II not. 1t is fatally de-
fectiye, and will soon begin to ravel.
10. Has the rolling been prolonged
until the stone ceases to creep In front
of the roller and until the macadan Is
firm under the foot as one walks upon
dt? If not, good bye in very few
years to your road.
H. Is the stone laid In successive lay
ers each not more than four 10 six
inchet thick. and each Thoroughly
completed by rolling before the next
IS laid? II not the road Will not last
long.
With these directions as guide posts
almost any one should be able 10 de-
eide for himself whether or not the
city street work Is proceeding upon
established principles, or whether It
rs delusion and snare that viii be
the most costly OF blunders TO the
city's real progress.
THE BINDING MATERIAL.
There Is n difference OF opinion
among engineers as 10 the best meth
Cd OF applying the binding material.
Some apply IL on the top OF each
course. and some on top OF only tine
last course. In the first case the
voids from the bottom 70 the top OF
the road are filled with fine mater
ial. In the second case, the binder
usually nils the voids OF the top
course only. II the stone is hard or
II the lower layers have not been
thoroughly compacted by rolling, ape
plying the binding material on the top
OF the last course practically fills the
Yoids TO the earth foundation, II the
stone In the lower courses is soft, Of
IL the top of the next 10 last course
is thoroughly rolled. applying the
binder on the top fills the yoids In the
top course only. II IL said 20 be suf-
feient 10 MI the yolds of the top
course, but which OF these alterations
IA accomplished m the case OF our
streets now paving, Is not clear Along
Second avenue the binding material
IA laid ON the top course only, IN ops
position 10 former practise. IN very
thin layer This net IN OF itself an
admission that the binding layer Is
not intended to M the yolda TO the
A.