Show I CONVICT LABOR DISCUSSED IN PUBLIC ROADS ROADS' State Road oad Engineer Brown Brown- inc ing y Contributes Article on Subject In Public Roads a monthly publication pub pub- of of- the United States department depart depart- ment mont of of ot agriculture the last edition deals exclusively with sIth tho the employment of oC convicts In highway highway construction I In tho the story pertaining to Convict LJ Labor or on on the Mountain Roads of or Utah Proves a Notable Success In heavy Heavy 1 Construction V by Irl R. R Browning state slate road engineers leers follows follows- I I Use Uso of Gf convict con labor on the public public pub pub- lic roads in years past In Utah and other thinly settled western states has hasI I peen given very little attention probably probably I ably because u CJ of f the thc difficulties of oC i I tro transporting tinz and ami guarding the prison ga gangi gaLga R In the tho districts where suitable projects of oC road construction were cro 10 rc- rc under a way Used on OD nod nock Work York Short Shortly Shorty after the the organization of the state road commission ln of Utah however cr definite steps o wore c taken alcen to towar toward toward to- to I war ward utilizing lct labor on difficult difficult cult and e extensive e side Bille hill cuts rod rork- rork 1 work won and almost Impassable ble sandy l I sections of ot the roads In southern Utah Ono One of tho requirements in conner conner- I j I tion with iti convict labor In the tho mountain moun moun- I tam tain districts must be bo the compactness I I of organization In order lo to effectively effective effective- ly guard 1 the prisoners and prevent wholesale wholesale- escape escape- from camps in the I mountain fastnesses and this naturally natural ly lv limits the thi work to heavy y con con- n n. n I Honor Sj- Sj om As to the tho methods o of OC work worl upon th the part of convicts Mr l Browning Drowning continues contin contin- ues we have havo ha had gangs s-angs of OC prisoners arid and of oC ordinary laborers laborel's wor working inS inS' on the same roads road in Utah at various times s 's and nd have havo been heon impressed with tho the lack of or efficiency of or the convict times due duo to their lack of oC dependability for regular service ser on wording days das For Instance a n gang ang of thirty convicts con showed an aVera average o of ot less than t twenty regularly res employed ed 1 at road load work worl during one ono period of ob lb observation er b ri n The t tJ stay In ramp camp on account of slight Might I t. t Il illness s or l- l w I I in III u 11 I c measure C AUL for the disparity between free and convict labor It Is believed ed that a l solution has been found for this problem tho the honor system among the thc prisoners that will abide b by the rules granting more liberty has placed them practically practically ally on n a l par with tho the average l free tree I laborer borer so far as effective c work Is concerned |