The Salt Lake tribune. [volume], December 29, 1907, Page 17, Image 17

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1 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 29, 1907. 17
ISf In the making of a greater Salt
Hi Lake City, the one thing that has
I if caused the admiration of. visitors
H is the magnificent, streets, paved
K wiih asphalt and macadam, which
now radiate from the business sec
Mi lion of lhe cily in alL directions.
Tho larger part of this work of ira-
proving the street has been done
, W within the past two years. The
work has been done in the best
1 possible way and the bulk of it has
tl m 'JC?'1 UIKcr direction, of one
1 K man.
I "This street closed. P. J. Moran, Contractor," This Is aoout as
terse a story as could be told. To Salt Lakers it is a familiar sign.
A They look at it, know what it means, and pass on. On the way down
M town the pedestrian meets a quiet, unassuming man, who talks, in a
V low, pleasant voice. lie does not appear to have worried over the
I happenings of the day before, of the present day, of the future. There
I is no ostentation, no display, about him, but he is just a plain, ordinary
K citizen. This man is P. J. Moran.
JJ, V An army of laboring men know Pat Moran. They are upon his
5 IB Py roll, and during the past year he paid to his army of men $310,-
isjlB 000. They are a part of the tin bucket brigade, a part of SaltLako
9fM lIllt' C'ty eoul not and wuld not get along without.
' Merchants of Salt Lake know Pat Moran, for in addition to the
$11 $3:1-0000 which he disbursed to tho workingman and which gets back
SL l'JlC cnaimcls of trade he paid them $80,000 during the year.
f m' ooc' im a nian to navc m tt community. Almost $400,000 turned
N il 'nt0 cn:uinels lade by one man means a great deal for Zion. It
Si gg menns $1500 a day, over $3 a minute. Many people would miss this,
jr.- 3 Then, too, the railroads would miss P. J. Moran, for during the
1Cfli I past yeav he pad them for frei6nt charges upon material $112,000, or
51 . over 300 pcr da,y Yes Pat lon is a factor' in Salt Lake City,
giej ft During the year now ending Pat Moran has done work for the
S t cilv which amounted to $900,000 ;,at the same time ho has done work
i'
for the Utah Light & "Railway company upon the streets which : 1J
amounted to $1SO,000. During the year he has put down three and a tylM
half miles of asphalt streets and three miles of macadam street. Be- Ifffl
sides he has laid one mile of thirty-six-inch water pipe and twro miles I (a
of thirty-inch water pipe, all this pipe in a straight line from Parley's ffl
conduit on the "Fort. Douglas military reservation to Third AVest street, H
the line. being put down on Fifth South street. fl
II ere arc some figures which show the work done the past year by
the big army of men under the command of P. J': Moran and his of- H
ficial lieutenants: M
Excavation, cubic yards. .' .160,000 i fl
Concrete, cubic .yards .' , ......... 27.500 - 1 I
Asphalt paving,' square yards ...158,000 r 'I
Macadam pavement, square yards : o7,500 !' M
Cement curb and gutters, lineal feet '. 6-1,000 9
Cast iron pipe, tons ..: ......... 3,500 )
Sand and gravel, cubic yards '. . 50.000 1 M
Cement, barrels ........ ' .,.;...'. . 50..000. ; jl
Crushed rock, cubic yards.'. . ; r.-.v.-',. . . .' 24,000 t lm
Refined asphal turn, tons 4,000 j.W
The above is the story told in figures. An average reader, of f ill
course, will not stop to figure out the detail, hence The Tribune wilL. H
do this in order to make it plain to all. ' H
Li tho matter of excavation, the earth romoved represents 240,- ; 'M
000 tons or 12,000 carloads; of concrete, 41.250 tons or 2062 cars; of ' - jffl
cast iron pipe. 175 car loads; of sand, 7500 tons or 3750 ears; of ce- Sm
uicnt, 10.000 tons or 333 carloads; of crushed rock, 36,000 tons or i 11
1SO0. cars, and of asphalt, 200 cars, or altogether 30.320 cars, or 225 !; '121
miles of cars, and which, if in one train, would extend from Salt Lake ' ' jmt
to Minidoka, Tdaho. If made up into trains of 20 cars each, there jjlnffl
would be 1516 trains. Fairly good year, and a fair amount of work (jjjjl
ilonc by Mr. Moran during the twelve months ended on Tuesday next. J wj
The work oX Mr. Moran is well done; his worst enemies have ' l
never accused him of shirking or of putting in inferior material. In , Jl
. other words, Mr. Moran is thorough and in the making of tho city f Jifl
beautiful lie has done the best that it was possible for one to do. The j m
latest ! ' njfil;:::'- the most modern appliances, have been Ha
. purcha U.al am work which he had contracted to do V B
might be completed at the earliest possible date, and tho plant which. H
he now has is one of the best, and in which he has invested a very ; A
considerabl'e fortune. - 1 m