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township board. The draggers are paid 50 cents a mile for one 

 round. They are under contract with the township board, who 

 guarantees them 15 draggings each year. The cost for one drag- 

 ging of a five-mile stretch is $2.50. Although 15 draggings per 

 year are guaranteed, the number more often reaches 18 to 20. 

 The drags used are a four-horse steel drag, purchased at a cost 

 to the township of $17.50 each. 



The funds for carrying on this work are obtained from the 

 city council of Salisbury and from the township board, half from 

 each. During the present year (1912) a total of $500 was raised. 

 This money was deposited to the credit of Mr. John Legandre, 

 president of the township board, and was paid out by personal 

 check to the road draggers. The township board, at the beginning 

 of the dragging season, drew one warrant for $250 in favor of the 

 president of the board. This system of dragging has been used in 

 Salisbury township for the past four years, and this 35 miles of 

 roads will compare favorably with any earth roads in the State. 

 It is now proposed to extend the above-mentioned system of drag- 

 ging to all the roads in the township, rather than only the main 

 roads leading into Salisbury. 



Twenty-three concrete culverts were built during the summer 

 of 1912. Last year seven concrete culverts were built; the year 

 preceding that, one, and the year before that, none. All culverts up 

 to two feet in diameter are corrugated metal without head walls. 

 Above two feet in diameter they are built of concrete arch section 

 with head walls. Two sizes of arches have been built thus far, 

 namely, four feet and six feet. The county pays for all cost above 

 $100 on a single culvert. The concrete foreman with team and 

 helper is paid $5.50 per day. 



MONETT SPECIAL DISTRICT. 



The Monett, Barry county, district is a fair example of what 

 may be accomplished by a special district of average conditions 

 without issuing bonds. The district is in a square four by four 

 miles, sixteen square miles area, and has twenty-eight miles of 

 public wagon roads outside of the city limits of Monett, which 

 city lies about one mile north of the center of the district with 

 a population of four thousand. The population of the district out- 

 side of the city is about six hundred. The nature of the country 

 is generally level to slightly rolling. There is considerable cherty 



