The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1924-01-31
BITULITHIC PAVING
HAS FIRST HEARING
MAKES GOOD SHOWING
Large Attendance at Board
Meeting Indicates Wide
spread Interest in Subject

spread Interest in Subject
THAT THE people Of shoshone
county are thoroughly Interested
in the class of paving to be used
on the highway now under con-
struction, and are going to insist upon
full value for the money they have
provided to pay for it, was clearly ev-
ident at the meeting of the board OF
trade yesterday The announcement
that the meeting would be given over
entirely to the discussion of paving,
and that a representative of asphaltic
or bitulithic paving would be on hand
to explain the merits of his product,
attracted a record attendance. A large
delegation from Kellogg was present,
which with the unusual attendance
from Wallace almost reached the seat
/ ing capacity of the large dining room
of the Banquet restaurant. Unfortun-
ately by the time the luncheon was
disposed of the available time was so
limited that the speaker for bitulithic
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the most essential part of his argu-
ment, together with views and other
exhibits accompanying the same AS
remedy for this President Hull an
nOunced that a meeting would be held
in the district court room at 1880 at
which the bitulithic people would pre-
sent their case in full and answer all
questions. AS most of the Kellogg
people planned to return home on the
200 o'clock train, arrangements were
made for them to meet the bitulithic
representatives in the lobby of the
Samuels hotel Immediately following
the board of trade meeting.
Advantages of BituIithc.
President Hull preliminary to in
Producing the speaker, stated that the
bitulithic representatives would have
the floor today; that next week the
concrete people would have their in
ming, and that the following week the
time would be divided between them
for rebuttal. He then introduced +.
$ Ross of Portland, district engineer
in the technical service department of
Warren Brothers company, Of Bos-
ton. Other representatives, Of the
Warren company were Chas. f. Speak
er field engineer and f. NJ Res, both
of Portland; also accompanying the
Warren representatives was r. NJ
Smith, of Tacoma, of the asphalt div-
sion of the Standard Oil company
Seated at the same table with the
speaker and other representatives of
the Warren company was perhaps the
most interested listener. This was
Mr.. Richardson, of Portland field en-
gineer for the Portland Cement assoc
citation, who will speak in behalf of
concrete paving next week
Advantages of Bitulthic.
In his opening remarks Mr.. Ross re-
ferred to the fact that asphaltic ce-
ment paving had been used by the an
clients, and stated that blocks of this
class Of paving in a good state Of
preservation had in recent years been
found by archaeologists in the palace
grounds of ACKNOWLEDGMENT, king of
Babylon. 500 years before Christ. Com
ing down to modern times and to the
specific question under consideration.
the speaker said that it was evident
that the people of Shoshone county
were very much in earnest on the paw
ing question and were determined to
get the best that their money could
buy. The Warren company he said
was equally interested in giving them
the best possible paving The com
pany owned valuable patents COVERING
its paving mixture, and this value
could be protected only by seeing that
every factor affecting the quality of
the paving material was adapted to the
conditions of the particular job. For
that reason all asphaltic or bitulithic
paving material used under the War
rem patents was subjected to thorough
test in the company's laboratory and
the mixture was prepared solely by
and under the direct supervision Of
the Warren company. Mr.. Ross en-
phasized the advantages of asphaltic
or bitulithic paving. one of which was
the quality of yielding to swelling
ground caused by frost. This class Of
paving would not crack or break I'M
der such conditions, and would drop
back to its normal position when the
ground movement subsidized While
opposed to placing paving on newly
filed ground he said that in cases Of
that kind bitulithic had the advantage
over other paving in that it would not
crack or break as the ground settled
and that the depression could be built
up with additional bitulithic. Mr.. Ross
also stated that the Warren bitulithic
paving had a non-skid surface made
of the hardest erravel which had