The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-08-02

thic and of the lasting kind. The
!; kind that can be laid and is being
laid in Idaho towns at, from $2.15
to $3.50 per square yard, and when
once laid is ready for travel with nc
interruption for repairs and not af'
fected by the elements.
The trouble with great many i'm
itations we saw was that they begin
to decay as soon as they are exposed
to the sun and moisture. Where the
drainage comes, next to the curb
they give out in very short time
and have to be repaired with brick
or cement. A good illustration Of
the way they rot is the tar paper used
a few years ago for covering build
ings. When fresh and new it looks
good, but the evaporation of the oily
part begins as soon as 1t Is exposed,
and in short time it is soft and has
little resistance. The bitulithic paw
ing retains its elasticity under all
conditions, sun, moisture and wear
where we found it. In every town
we visited, if there was bitulithic
paving, people want no other, and
can easily understand why Warren
Brothers can afford to carry on a
campaign of education as they did
with us, for no committee after see
ing what we saw of pavements, and
the experiences of the various towns,
would ever go back home and enter
tain any proposition from the max
ers of any of these cheaper materials
that become so expensive soon after
being laid.
A person not familiar with the
work of the bitulithic company is
apt to think of it as something small
or commonplace, but they have a
plant of mammoth proportions oc-
cupying a tract of the water front
where barges come and go carrying
cargoes of materials and carloads
come and go by rail- They have ma
chinery for grinding up rocks and
gravel, machinery for mixing and
spreading and for rolling it down,
great laboratory for testing materials,
altogether representing Investments
of millions of dollars in the one set
of yards.
They do paving in 256 cities and
towns, and nothing is laid anywhere
until the materials such as rock, sand
gravel, etc., proposed for use in that
locality have been submitted and
tested in the laboratory. The mat
erials have to be mixed at certain
temperature, no hotter and no cold
err, and when these details are all at
tended to under their directions the
quality of the pavement will be as
forecasted. The process is patented,
so that they are protected in the use
of the formula which they have dev-
eloped, and which they stand behind
with their guarantee.
We investigated the whole subject
to our entire satisfaction and while
1 do not recommend doing any paw
ing at this time in Blackfoot,
should be emphatic in demanding bit
ulithic when we do get ready for paw
ing. The city government is in debt
so much already that think we are
not justified in going in deeper for
paving. I understand there is some
talk of paving couple of blocks OF
main street, two on Bridge and one
on Pacific, and if the property own
ers want to do this themselves l
would have no objection to the city
putting in the crossings to connect
them. Mr.. Boyle and Mr.. Kennedy
are anxious to pave the street in front
of their property, and if others in the
same block feel as they do about it
I shall not stand in the way. In fact
am willing to pave at any time, so
far as my individual interest goes,
but l don't feel disposed to get the
city any deeper in dabt
When asked about some features
of the development of the city of
Portland, Mr.. Younie said it had been
eighteen years since lie was there,
and that the old wooden buildings
and the low brick structures had
largely disappeared and modern build
ings were in their places, and besides
this the city was building away back
in the woods and up on the hills.
Continuing he said, IT saw them fill
ing in low place at the foot of the
hills which they spoke of as the lag
DON, and it was done by sluicing from
the hills. The water was pumped up
and by the hydraulic pressure the
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