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Show rii TO UTILIZE H COUNTY PRISONERS Fi ROAD WORK Salt Lake, Feb. 28.' Informally ffsaafl tho board ot county commissioners HLLl docldcd to Inaugurate tho system of 8 assail working county prlsonors on tho fsH roads, Sheriff John S. Corlosa advls- iH cd tho board that about twenty-five 'H men can bo furnished from tho coun- 'H ty Jail dally providing tho county fur- H nlslics somo means of transportation. H Tho board agreed to purchaso a now ' aH nutoiuobllo for tho uso of tho shor- H Iff's olllco and to convort tho old car H Into a truck for hauling tho prlsonors H to and from tho scono ot tho road H Sheriff Corless told tho commls- B sloncrs thnt nbont ono third ot tho H prisoners in tho Jnll enn ho worked H on tho roads. Ho said tliero nro now H about 100 Inmates. When tho board H of commissioners consldorcd th einat- H tor Inst yenr, Andrew Smith, Jr., then H sheriff, advised tho commissioners H that tho plan to put tho prlsonors on ;H tho roads would not bo advlsablo in H thnt many Inmates ot Uio Jail could H not bo worked In that thoy woro jH awaiting trial or appeal and woro not ' HH actual county prisoners. Tho actual H county prisoners, ho said, woro need- rH cd for work nbout tho Jail. OLLfl It was suggested today that It H would bo a good thing to put thoso ! H prisoners to work who nro serving H tlmo for fnlluro to provldo for their j H families. It Is posslblo that an nr- H rangomont can bo mado whereby tho j H families will bo paid by tho county iLfl tho monoy which Is earned by tho j H work of tho prlsonors. Tho sheriff ! H bcllovcd thnt two guards would bo , H sufficient to hnndlo 25 prlsonors ! jH whllo they nro working on tho roads. ; H |