The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-01-25

Interpretation from $S.OO 10 9lG'Vo
a day, which you readily see would be
an exorbitant price.
81 lust now called up one or the
most practical road men in Wapello
county, and asked what the average
days work was of travel, for a good
heavy team, heavy drag and man.
He said that in his township, he mad
dragged from the center to one cor
ner of the township, and back in
forenoon, making total travel of
twelve miles, which is six miles
round trip, and in the afternoon mad
travelled in the other direction, eX-
actly the same distance and back,
making another twelve miles travel,
or another six miles round trip, or a
total travel of twenty-four miles for
the day, which would be twelve miles
round trip. According to your in
depreciation this would bring him
twelve dollars, which would be eX-
tremely extravagant. He tells me
that team on ordinary roads would
travel twenty miles with a drag and
on your Interpretation, even this
would give him ten dollars.
A.-You cite various illustrations
to demonstrate that the cOmpensa-
ton to be paid for dragging under
the Interpretation Of the law as you
conceive l made it exorbitant. For
instance, you say that under my in
depreciation of the law a person in
making a round trip with the drag
on a six-mile stretch Of road would
be entitled to $500 and that under
average conditions man with a
team of two or three horses could
accomplish this in half day and
could drag another stretch OF road
equally long in the afternoon and
thus earn another $500, making
$1,000 in all. l might agree with
you that this much compensation for
the law l have interpretated it is alb
solutely unnecessary to pay the
amount mentioned for tnat amount
of work. AS I said at the outset
you have misread what l said on the
subject. l think you have assumed
that I held that the trustees were
compelled to pay fifty cents for every
mile travelled with a drag in the act
of dragging the road. I quote this
much from the first paragraph of my
letter relating to this subject which
I think sufficiently states the rule
correctly:
THE amount that can be paid fol
dragging the roads is not to exceed
fifty cents per mile for every mile
, necessarily and actually travelled up.
on the highway while in the act Of
dragging the same in accordance
with the contract therefore,
And there is nothing to prevent
, the trustees from fixing different
rates Of compensation for dragging
the roads in the same township
Under certain conditions twenty-five
cents per mile of travel might be
: very liberal compensation Under
other conditions in the same town.
ship forty cents per mile of trave
would not be too much"
| Q.-What penalties are provided
. for failure of carrying out the pro
visions of this bill?
Amy violation of any of the
provisions OF this act, by the superin
tendent OF dragging or any person
or persons, who may be required un
der contract to drag district roads
or neglect on the part of any town
ship clerk to set aside the funds re
quired by this act, shall on convic
ton thereof, be fined not less thar
ten dollars ($10.O0) or more thar
, twenty-five (25.00) for the first Of
Tense, and for each subsequent Of
Tense Shall be fined not less thar
twenty-five ($25.0O) nor more thar
f1ftV t1ts1iarS $50 0O1