The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-03-16
Ardmore, Thursday, March IS, 1911
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high enough already In Oklahoma
City, and that delegation OF ciu-
zens to influence the council to cut
expenses with reference to paving
presented themselves before the
council and asked them TO reconsider
the motion for the rayng Of more
paving which VIII mean saving
of one million five hundred thous-
aud dollars at present, which was
granted them.
We note that the committee rec.
commended that the Shelby Downard
Asphalt Company Of this city be dis
qualified from bidding.
II Is a known fact by many OF the
property owcnrs OF Oklahoma City
that the Shelby Downward Asphalt
Company uses the best material, and
does tho best paving, and that, too,
at lower price than any other
paving company In the state. A
9arge property owner of Oklahoma
City remarked when he heard that
the Shelby Downward low bid had
turned down, that there was some
thing wrong. and that the property y
owners and tax payers should not
submit TO any such treatment. The
people in Oklahoma City are as 10y
al to home products, all things be.
Ing equal as can be found anywhere,
and would use their home product
IL permitted to do so. one council
man speaking on the subject said
the people did not know what they
wanted, and he for one would choose
for them any kind OF paving that
he thought was best. Notwithstanding
the fact that the property owners and
citizens in general of the city were
clamoring for cheaper and better
paving, just such as is being now laid
on many OF the city streets of va
rious towns in oklahoma by the
Shelby Downard Asphalt Company,
who have gone 10 the expense of es-
tabllshing the best and biggest nat
ural asphalt paving plant that can
DE found anywhere in the country.
The paving committee of Oklahoma
City would please more OF It's prop
cry owners by using the very best
paving material at a saving of from
ten to fifteen cents per square yard
instead OF catering to the capriccs
OF the gigantic paving trust that has
Oklahoma City by the throat and is
slowly and surely strangling 1t to
death. 1t has been truthruly said
that where influence becomes com.
ponent part OF paving material, the
moro worthless the paving becomes,
and the greater the howls and com
plants from the property owner who
pays the bills are heard.
The bid OF the Shelby Downard
Asphalt Company was the lowest, |
and every citizen of Ardmore or oh. F..
server of Ardmore asphalt knows |
that the objection that the pavement /
is worthless. had no foundation in
fact, and It is further a well known |
fact that every street in Oklahoma |
City now possible TO pave was pre- /
scented by the council for letting. and |
it would appear that the old regime .
with its last expiring breath led .
every pig to the slaughter, and saw
that Is was properly stuck.
Now comes the commission form .
of government for Oklahoma city. |
with promises of new administra-
tion in every sense of the word
Following is an extract from q
work on solid btumens. their chem
ical properties, etc, 10y 5. F. Peck
ham, NJ. A., Chemist to the depart.
ment of Finance City of New Youl.
and member of the American Philo- |
sophical Society:
On page 2S7, MI. Pccllham makes .
reference to the rock asphalt streets .
in Ardmore, Okla. Previous to this
discussion concerning the Ardmore
asphalt, he treats rock asphalt as 1t
Is laid in Europe in the fullest pos
sible manner and praises the charac.
.er OF the pavement. Proving with.
)ut doubt from various data that
-ock asphalt is superior TO any arti-
icial hituminous streets.
Under the same heading would
one artificial asphalt and all