Show day explains attitude in road building matter the following communication from 9 wilford day is self exola batory carowan parowan ri Pa rowan utah march 1 23 3 1931 editor parowan carowan times may hay I 1 beg space lit in your valuable paper to explain briefly the interest I 1 had in the parowan carowan bah binh iah road matter last fall I 1 was in millard county N where here I 1 found that the road job under there was similar to ours ours and that they were using three horses and paying tor for them I 1 took occasion to ask the contractor here on oil returning from there why he was only paying tor for two when ills employees were using three itis answer was that a yard of gravel Is a horse load therefore two yards Is only a two horse load ile he al also 0 said that they were ere not laying for foi three horses in millard county I 1 replied that a yard of gravel Is not a horse load when a horse cant pull it and that I 1 knew they v were vere ere paying for three horses in millard county I 1 talked to the district road engineer about the matter lie he said they were not paying for three horses in millard county and that a yard of gravel is a horse load I 1 knew where to get definite ili information and we got it to the effect that millard county teams were getting pay tor for horses used and that a yard of gravel Is not a horse load when a horse can not pull it I 1 atso also got information that it we desired s red we could get pey for all horses used and that the contra contractor clor COULD NOT N use his own horses or go to other towns tor for horses but that he had to use local teams as this was a relief job clair rowley called me on the telephone f ome me time a ago c in salt lake city and sa said i that loral people and the contractor had got together tog ethe and wanted to work the turee horses as in the tall fall lie he i if I 1 would agree to it and if so it if I 1 would clil on the state road people and advise them which I 1 did I 1 told the state roa people that they were not dot to know anything about this job except that it was going on as per contract my aly only interest in the whole matter was to get reliable information and to be of service in the interest of the people not to meddle why iron county teams should not get the same pay tor for similar work as did the teams on the millard county job was the chiji that did not look good to me I 1 could not get ct information here 0 0 1 I went to I 1 hope tills ills will explain my poston i and ni ali i ilose the matter once ind arid for ail wilford day |