Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-06-01
PENRoSE DRIVE DIFFERENT
After Five Years 1t Is As Good as
The Day the Government
Experts Laid It.
Discussion Is Lively Over the Failure
OF Macadam and 1t May Result in
Agitation for Utah Asphalt.

Moran's maeadam is now only a mess
o. slush. There Is one streak of it run
ming east on Second avenue. another
streak running south on Tenth East
street, and still another streak on Sixth
East street
70 members of the Moran ring tho
news will be good news because an ar
gument for asphalt has always meant
am argument for a California product
ana the asphalt ring in the city govern
ment' has not vet been known to oh
ject when thar product was making
friends.
But In Striking contrast to the Moran
macolam arose drive traverses the
east bench lands, built by government
experts intent upon making good
road instead Of an argument FOR a GER
tain Kind of paving and the result ls
that the road this morning is as good
as the day il went down five years ago
Chuckholes and pools of water have so
badly cut up Second avenue that driv-
ers no longer consider it a good street
to use in working eastward from Main
and the sad condition of the other
streets is becoming a matter of general
comment looked upon now In the light
of the contractors lively interest in
another material that would gain every
time macadam failed.
Discussion is becoming general es-
pecially by the residents of First ave-
nue. and other districts considering the
matter of laying new paving. Some
taking their observations from second
avenue are strongly set against nacad-
am. but these partisans have to yiaid
their arguments when Penros., drive
| is shown TO them and then comes into
| prominence the Moran Joker by which
| former Councilman Rulou $. -Wells
| resolution TO stop Moran from continue
1 ting The use OF soft rock on second ava
nue. was sidetracked and the city was
prevented from securing the use of the
stone from which Penrose drive is
made; the sidetracking being done by
Councilman Blacks street oommitte 3
which has since been allied strongly
in the public mind with asphalt and It's
source of supply to the city,
FOR UTAH ASPHALT.
Those who favor asphalt. as per the
Moran desires. find with a glance at
First street that it is not Just what is
wanted, and then they take a look ut
the job done with Utah material on
west Second South street and towards
that material opinion seems now to be
settling.
That Moran absolutely cannot be
trusted on any kind of road hut one
using his California product, because
of his active interest in this product is
the opinion of great many of those
who have been looking up his record
since the Goshen expose, and il is now
doubtful If the people viii center on Il
| proposition in which both Utah asphalt
| and Moran will have place.
Councilman Fernstrom has explained
that the high figures given FOR Utah
asphalt on the First South street job
are due to the fact that the entire cost
of opening the mine. which would be
about $4,000. was charged against First
South the plan being thus to leave the
properly free from debt after this one
fob had been completed With the
First South Street matter still
unsettled. and with the First
Avenue people and people IN
other sections demanding Utah asphalt
II may be that public agitation viii
begin for opening up the city mine too
strong for the cit yengineer. Moran and
thp RING Ia forestall That the most
vigorous kind OF fight VIII lbs ncces-
cary 10 get the mine opened
is conceded as the delay In this Inhttsr
for tho past five yenrs las been con-
stentls forced by certain interests. now
pretty well known and located where
their opposition can be accurately
measuscd
A number OF First Avenue residents
stated today when interviewed con-
corning pnvlng that street, that they
would nave nothing TO do with maoad-
III, Second
and that they favored asphalt as tie
result OF the lessons of this storms,
provided the soft springy Utah asphalt
could be secured instead OF the hart
and brittle California stuff WHOSE llfo
time ia limited to q very few years.
Tenth East has been 50 damaged by
the rain that the road is almost lmpaS-
sable IN parts aud wherever IL ~
necessary FOR two teams 70 pass, one
is almost sure 10 sink deeper than IN
the old dirt road preceding the enort
OF Moran to macadami2e 1t.