Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1917 — SAVE $465,000 ON HIGHWAYS [ARTICLE]

SAVE $465,000 ON HIGHWAYS

Use of Convicts on Colorado Rdada Results in Big Saving to the State. Denver, Colo. —Approximately $465.000 was saved to Colorado in the last two years in the construction of 145 miles of roads, by convicts, according to Thomas Tynan, warden of the stat* penitentiary. This amount represents the difference between what the roads actually would have cost under contract and what was actually paid the institution at the rate of 35 1-3 cents a -day for each convict’s cost. Many of the roads were cut out ol solid rock in the hills for scenic higtb difficult and wonderful pieces of construction being in the canyons of th£ Grand river. bea® Glenwood Springs, and the Cache 1< Poudre river, west of Fort Collins.