Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-11-15
JACK FROST MAY
Win FIGHT WITH
PAVING LEC|0NS.
Cold Weather Materially Retards
Spreading Of Bithulithic on
Main
INSPECTOR ON JOB TO
INSURE GOOD PAVEMENT

With decided handicap in his fav
or, due to delays which no one seems
to assume responsibility for, there is
an excellent chance that Jack Frost
Bismarcks latest opponent to paving
may succeed in laying an injunction
against further progress in district No.
].
The spreading of bitllithic on Main
at the corner of Fourth, was begun yes.
terday morning, under difficulties. Al
though the mixture arrived on the job
hot enough, it cooled rapidly after be-
ing dumped. was found difficult to
spread and hard to roll into a compact
mass. Consulting Engineer Farrell Of
Duluth arrived on the job yesterday
noon. He states that to date he has
found nothing unsatisfactory. Today
he will cut out a section Of the btu
lithic for a test, and if he finds the re-
suits not what they should be, he will
order the work stopped.
Chances Against Completion.
Chances are against the completion
of the No. district this fall. Several
weeks of splendid warm weather were
wasted while the paving contractors
awaited the arrival of their mixing
plant, from. Great Falls. The Great
Falls Jon: was flushed first Then it
developed Monday that the flux speci.
fed for, the natural lake asphalt which
the property-owners are presumed to
be buying was not on the ground, and
there was another delay. Monday eve.
ming the city commission gave Hanlon
4 Okes permission to go ahead with
the work, using a Warren Bros. btu
lithic cement, which could be obtain
ed from the Mandan job, providing
both Warren Bros. and the general
contractors would contract to guaran-
tee good workmanship and extend
over the altered specifications. the
same bonded security called for in the
original contract. There is really very
little difference, Hanlon & Okes and
the Warren representatives claim, ex-
tept that Bismarck is not getting, on
this particular block, at least, the pave.
ment it contracted for. .,-.
.,,.,-. RI. gre, Cause Of Delay. ...,.......
The flux is not here because the 500
line on November 4 rejected, in bad
order, the car in which the material
was delivered by the Minnesota trans
fer The Minnesota transfer has had
since November to repair the car or
transfer its contents. Up to Monday
evening neither had been accomplish
ed, in spite of the fact that local Agent
T.. K. Thompson and 500 traffic men
generally had kept the wires hot The.
'hux was not ordered earlier, Warren
Bros representative Informs the city
commission, because the company OBJ
jected to the possible payment Of a de,
,annrrage fee of 81 the day. A crew o.
fifty men lay idle all day Monday to
save a demurrage charge of one dollar,
and on Tuesday, when work really did
start, it was with material mot the
same, but just as good"
ManhoIes RemodeIed.
Among other things, it has been
found necessary at the very last mo-
ment to change the grade Of a number
of manholes, which We're improperly
placed to begin with. Some sections
of the concrete base are alleged to be-
''out Of kilter,' and there are other
little things, all making for delay,
which have been deferred to the elev
enth hour
II worst comes to worst, there is
some consolation in the fact that, the
concrete base can be used during the
winter months. It will not be the
paving anticipated, but it will be bets
ter than mud, and assuredly, better
than a botched job which must be re-
placed in few years, no matteraat
whose expense the work may be DONE