Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-07-25


added to the present paving commits.
sion, as engineer Parish spent som,
time with Mr.. Turney Yesterday AZ IN,
city han, and the engineers had thei,
! heads together working out ,he com
pick problems which have arisen dur
ing the progress of the grading. and
other work preliminary to the actual
! paving of the city streets.
In the meantime the Barber As
| phalt Company's representative. Mr.
! L. p. Conway has little to saw. and he
, shows his opinion of the hire and fire
/ methods of the commission by adopt
| ing a radically different method i'm his
| OWN operations. He goes Steadily
! ahead, entering upon this weeks work
with the same assistants that came to
Phoenix To aid him when the grading
first begun. 1t is evident that al
though storm may have been raging
around the Barber Asphalt Paving
Company no storm has been raging
within il, nor has the charge been
made that the storm is raging about
IT,
A letter published yesterday morn
ing by the Sun produced a statement
from Mr.. Conway, issued to the press
later in the day, for the purpose Of
correcting certain statements made in
the letter, which had been sent by the
Department Of Public Works of tn.
city of Milwaukee to the Phoenix
Street Paving Committee.
The opinion was advanced in the let
ter that better pavement was laid in
milwaukee, for $140 n square Va-1
than Is being laid in Phoenix for the
higher price At which the Barber AS
phalt Company agreed to do the work
1t was also alleged that the Warren
Brothers, owners of the patents for
Bitulithic. although at war with the
Barber Asphalt Company in other
parts of the country, have not carried
their animosity into the southwest.
but seem satisfied to see their big
competitor pull all the plums i'm this
part of the country.
second letter with the same origin
declared that Edward F. Smith. man
ager of the California Liquid Asphalt
company, upon being asked in Chi
cago If there had been anything crook
ed IN the Phoenix paving deal, had re-
piled with a broad grin"
Concerning these allegations. Mr..
Conway said:
The expert authority quoted in
the Sun this morning, is in error i'm a
number of his statements. There is
monopoly on bitulithic pavement in
favor of the Warren Brothers. for the
reason that the pavement is their
patent. There was nothing Deculiar
IN the paving deal in Phoenix whatso-
ever. The paving committee consist
ing of Mr.. McClmg, Mr. Hackett, Mr..
Goldberg, Mr.. Goodrich, Judge Kibbev.
Mr.. Heard, Stauffer and Mr.. Thar
aldson and the council made an ex-
haustive Investigation of paving in
different places and when they chose
TO use bitulithic, they did so with the
fun knowledge that il was n patented
pavement, owned and controlled by the
Warren Bros. Company The Warren
Bros. Company filed a mixture agree
ment here and any contractor who
chose to meet their terms could bid on
their material There We're three bids
on bitulithic. The Texas RituIithic
Company, the WrOswick Paving Com
pany and the Barber Asphalt Paving |
Company. This was an absolutely
open bidding, in which any and every
contractor had an opportunity To hid |
on bitulithic. 1t is hardly to he |
presumed that men as intelligent as
those composing the paving committee |
and the council could have the wool |
pulled over their blue eyes and the |
Sun does little compliment to the |
Of the foremost citizens
Df this city when il speaks of these |
gentlemen as being fooled The re-
marks of Mr.. A G. Mullen. s,lperin |
tendent Of street construction in Mil |
are not at all to the point.
since everyone here who was ac
luainted with the situation knew i'm |
advance that they were adopting BIZ
tulithic specifications In this con-
nection II might be said that Phoenix
Is the first and only city in the conn
try to get bitulithfc pavement for
less than 1928 a square yard. The
price here is S2.O9. This should con-
vince the most skeptical that there
was competition.
Mr.. Mullen says better mixtures
,ould be made in other ways. In max
ing this statement he sets himself at
oi idiiSS WIN lne expert opinion of /
practically every up-to-date engineer
in the United States. The Warren
Bros. Company have 26 or more pat
ents. 1t is hardly to be presumed that
4 concern of their size and intelligence
would permit any better mixture to
go unpatented, and. in fact. they have
not done so. Mr.. Mullen's remarks
about the cost of materials and labor
In Milwaukee and Phoenix are also
in error. Labor is about the same
there; crushed rock and sand cheaper
T anything. and cement, less than one
half as much as here. If the intention
was to make Phoenix property own
FRS pay all the traffic would bear
Why is Phoenix getting bitulithic pave
nent for siXteen-cents square yard
ess than any other city? The Texas
Company is laying or has
aid pavement for S1.S3 a yard in
FL Paso. This pavement, however. did
not have a five-inch cement concrete
base, such as is to be used here. hut
N place of it had a four-inch broken
stone base, rolled and poured with
asphalt. This base is very much
cheaper. Figures can be produced
% show that paving is considerably
ess expensive to lay in FL Paso than
n Phoenix. We know nothing about
where the machinery of the Texas BIZ