Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-18
Which the Board of Public Works
Also Might Consider
81 Well.
CITY COUNCIL INVOLVED.
Some Of Worst Examples Of City
Road Making to be Seen in
Modern Times.
And the People Wish to Know What
The Dumb Officials Are Going
To Do About 1t.

IA "after many days weak and wcb-
b,v voice is heard in defense OF the
&,treet rnaeadamizlng now in progress on
RI miles Of The city streets. The news
Mas shown that these roads are maze
n yro,, the worst material and laid in
n manner condemned by all authorities
*rhe Tribune at last has found us voice
|X snd says:
III THAT MACADAM ISLANDER"
~ "Any citizen who has been befogged
|E ty the cry OF The Lords Own that the
III " acaaam now being laid in certain por-
hi iio,,a of the city is no good, mas ohiy
IN visit Sixth East street or Second ave-
IS nua Ia see with his own eyes that the
0stale is untrue
|z,sf any citizen Is ito visit sixth EAST
Ian Second avenue or Third West. or
|.5second West, etc. but especially rlsnt
F'a fter N rainstorm Sixth East VIII soon
NJ eli ITS tale of shame and disgrace
ESud the people will have more paving
:S yes more waiting, more inconVen-
|Ei.nce' more tearing up and putting
|'7sown'' of a macadamized road ALREADY
ia THE SIMPLE FACTS.
|# Last saturday News" reporter
|.;,unnIied The Information, which was
HI Suly published in this paper that the
paved Sixth East street is
IA ready showing signs of going rapidly
|fIto pieces. that the materials are nor
and do not appear to be able 20
|svithstand the weather. to say Moth
hr of the effects OF traffic. " even
|:.7ooks dilapidated in places already
E,>Flrst II is rolling Humps and hol-
&jows are plainly descernible. More
#bvsr the surface Is loose and shifting.
E}it has not cemented together, and the
|Hhrge blocks show tendency to work
1tlo the surface.
Ek THE ISSUE JOINED.
Now, this mornings Tribune says
fhat sixth East street is now cont
Sleted. That the road is solid,
Beautiful, and enduring one. 1t is
pne OF tho finest streets in salt Lake.
Ind the complaint which has neeil
made against it is merely spitai u,
eitempt to dlscredit the American
administration? :,
So SAYS the organ. But the News
butts this question to the city en-
kineer: Did you give the Tribune the
bbove INSTRUMENTATION, or did the re-
porter merely guess at 1t? Are you
willing to be judged as an engineer
BIZ the qualities of the paving Of sixth
d,ast street? Do you approve what
hat paper says of 1t? Are you will
ling 10 take any engineer upon that
ttreet and publish his findings rs to
It's worth or worthlessnoss as pave
3nent considering the amount 1t has
blready cost. TO say nothing of the
H5tepairs it will need before it has been
|#Lown a year? In short. is the puiNc
E&to understand that Sixth East ls n
No
S5pn every other suburban street?
81 LOOK AT SECOND SOUTH
EM The News" stated last Saturday
THAT the recently macaddmized Sec
pnd South street west OF sixth West
k&is already almost as uneven as many
kountry roads made almost solely of
|3arth.r
Eta Do you defend the method and
materials OF macadamizing employed
1 IN Sixth West? Or do you think win
E;Xhis reporter that the work there -,
f3onsidering its cost, a wretched rail-
nc?
DON'T MISS THIRD WEST.
<& The News stated that on Third
Vest. between North and South
temple streets, and adjoining the
hort Line depot on the east. a real
pectacle of municipal workmanship
bid engineering Is exhibited: and a
ainful and shocking sight 1t is. This
freet was paved by the present city
administration something over a year
30. At present. nothing remains OF
be so-called pavement except piles OF
lack mud or deep chuckhoes and
Iooved and irregular gulleys made by
be cart-wheeis. In wet weather, II is
ostly black mud mingled with par
ally ground-up remnants Of the blue
ANsNrN lAt. 10 oil
pc dust ankle deep. In all weather
is miserable road. and was never
forth while TO lay down as a public
ponth"
Do you affirm or deny the truth OF
is statement made last Saturday and
faffirmed daily since that time?
Is that type OF the macadamized
= PADS YOU are constructing? Are you
aking any more out OF the same ma
rials? IL so, WHY
ALSO SECOND WEST.
Nearly week ago the News" pub
Fhed the allegation that "the west
DE of Second West street between
puth Temple and First North Is a
Fixing evidence of incompetence In
ad building. This road was laid
thin about one year It's present
>nditlon Is such that II will have to
"a re another winter passes, II is cut
pieces IN certain spots and ground
10 black dust everywhere on the
rface--the same disagreeable, aka
Pc black mud IL found every
hsre on top OF these 'pavements.'
ly that there Is rather more OF II
square foot than on other similar
pads that have been laid down with
Is that a false or a true report
pes II faithfully and accurately or
lsely and loosely describe the act
condition OF Second West? Are
IA paving other streets IN tho
NE manner and with the same ma
AS TO TWELFTH EAST.
% the Just completed and outwardly
etty looking matchmaking on one
ock OF Twelfth East. the News
70 that ''at frst the road looked
booth and attractive. but already Il
gins TO show It's real nature III
aces, II. too. Is soft and can be loos-
ed by the toe OF ones shoe. Here
there slight inequalities In the
rIace are manifest, and an occas-
pnai large stone Is 10 be found quite