The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1917-07-12
County Road and bridge Notes.
Decatur county, in all work, pays
for actual time nut in. whether on

Decatur county, in all work, pays
for actual time put in, whether on
bridge OF road gangs. When working
up to the present system, It.. was
found that ii one way time was al
lowed, or part of Saturday afternoon
was given the men in which to reach
their respective homes, that this was
imposed upon in numerous ways and
now only actual time is paid Tor. or
course there are few exceptions to
this rule, as when patrOlman is
hauling tools from one job to anoth-
er, but these exceptions are scarce:
Time is all reckoned by the hour and
foreman of each gang keeps a detail
ed time sheet Of each mans daily
time. what he was doing and the
number Of hours on that particular
Job. Our working weeks close on
Thursday night of each week and the
daily time sheets are sent to the Of
flee Friday morning, and this gives
time to get the warrants out and dis
posed of to the mems wish, either
sent to their post office address, held
in the office, or left some place where
the men can get them when they
reach town on Saturday night. Or
ders for time are made out in the en-
gineer's office and as the county en-
gineer is behind these orders on his
bond, the auditor issues vacation
warrants for the same and these are
then stamped by the board OF super
visors at their next session. II any
irregularities are found by the board
of supervisors or the state checkers
the engineer or his bondsmen are
required to make the same good to
the county A copy Of these orders
to the auditor is also found in the
engineers office as well as all OF the
time sheets, etc BY this method,
the office is enabled to tell what any
lob on any day that his name APP
pears on the pay roll, hence on any
day he worked. The only exception
to the above rule is for repair work,
either road or bridge. That is not
designated by the engineer, but by
the board, then this time comes in as
a claim to the board when IN session
and then is no. paid until stamped
and approved by, the board.
one foreman, f. L. Barrett, on con-
crete work and six men and one
teamster. The men pay all OF their
own expenses and receive from 80
to so cents for single man per work
ing hour and the teamster 60 cents.
The motor truck does the larger part
of the hauling for concrete and re-
pair gangs, mus saving TWO Teams
on the regular pay roll and. we are
finding that it is quite a saving.
The bridge gang is composed of a
foreman, w. A. Dodge, and three
regular single men and one teamster.
Rates are from FIX cents to 35
cents single and SO cents for team
ster.
The road wheeler gang under Mel
son Smith, has generally about. ilYe
or six regular teams. Rates from
27la cents to 35 cents single, regu-
lar teams at SO cents per hour. One
team is at present doing all of the
plowing and for this work receives
so cents per hour.
The patrol men receive 50 cents
per hour, for himself and team.
single men helping % cents per
hour.
Draggers are paid a. S''Tfaite 81 70
S 81 & ;s,~ffiie Tor dragging one round
and 80 cents for the second round. A
mile of road is considered to be
round trip over piece of road, with
a team, equal in length from a sec
ton corner to section corner.
All road tools and machinery is
furnished by the county, except wag-
ons for teamsters and doubletfees
and neck yokes for road men.