Public works . anicalequipment is operated by free labor. The system will beexpanded as rapidly as the number of men available willpermit and existing laws are modified to give greaterelasticity in the disposition of the men in the field and acloser co-operation between the reformatory institutionsand the highway department. A comparison between thelabor of these men at $ per day and the general runof free labor at $ to $ per day is decidedly in favorof the inmate labor. Jlyoming.—Convict labor has been used in Wyomingsince 1911, the number of gangs in the different yearsvarying an
Public works . anicalequipment is operated by free labor. The system will beexpanded as rapidly as the number of men available willpermit and existing laws are modified to give greaterelasticity in the disposition of the men in the field and acloser co-operation between the reformatory institutionsand the highway department. A comparison between thelabor of these men at $ per day and the general runof free labor at $ to $ per day is decidedly in favorof the inmate labor. Jlyoming.—Convict labor has been used in Wyomingsince 1911, the number of gangs in the different yearsvarying and the size of gang varying from ten to twentymen. Up to 1917 practically all of the work was donewithout survey or plans and with no record of 1917 a gang of sixteen men continued work on aroad that had been in progress for two years previous,but worked according to surveys and plans of the StateHighway Department, the cost being paid by Lincoln August 2, 1919 MUNICIPAL JOURNAL AND PUBLIC WORKS 67. STORM SEWER 1,400 FEET LONG TO CARRY CREEKUNDER NEW JERSEY ROAD, BUILT BY CON^aCTS. county. In 1918 a gang of eighteen convicts continuedthe same work and this was the only convict road workdone in the state last year, convicts who ordinarily wouldhave been available for road work being used on farmsand ranches. This project is located entirely in a canyon and in-volves a considerable amount of rock work, which classof work is more suitable to convict labor than that whereteams and machinery are employed. On this job thework done by convicts was equal to that done by commonlabor. The superintendent boarded the men, receiving40 cents per meal. No guards were provided and the menwere sent alone to the nearest railroad point thirty milesaway for supplies and to distant ranches for hay andfeed. They were allowed to have guns and ammunitionfor hunting, and fishing tackle for trout fishing and aconsiderable proportion of the fresh meat used in thecamp was obtained in this way
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