14 BULLETIN 583, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Paint: 
550 pounds white lead $37. 12 
1 barrel half and half oil 34. 10 
30 pounds chrome yellow med. in oil 4. 20 
Total cost of paint $75. 42 
Carpenter labor: 
Time of shop foreman 55. 00 
10.7 days at $3.50 37. 45 
88.5 days at $2.50 221. 25 
1.5 days at $4 6. 00 
Total cost of carpenter labor 319. 70 
Blacksmith and machinist labor : 
4| days at $2.75 12. 38 
5| days at $2.50 13. 75 
4i days at $2 9.00 
Total cost of blacksmith and machinist labor 35. 13 
Painter labor: 
22 days at $3.50 - 55. 00 
1 month at $40 40. 00 
Total cost of painter labor 95. 00 
Total cost of buildings 1, 598. 82 
The above is the cost of constructing the parts and units of the 
buildings. The cost of assembling them and erecting the buildings 
at the camp site was as follows: 
86i carpenter days at $2.50 $216. 25 
28 convict days at 77 cents 21. 56 
237. 81 
If to these costs be added the cost of loading and hauling the sec- 
tions and parts from the county shops at the Bellwood Convict Bar- 
racks, where they were made, to the camp site, which was $76.87, 
the cost of the buildings erected may be summarized as follows: 
Cost of materials $1, 148. 99 
Cost of labor (construction of parts) 449. 83 
Cost of loading and hauling 76. 87 
Cost of labor (erection) 237. 81 
Total cost of buildings erected 1, 913. 50 
Free labor was used in constructing and erecting because all con- 
victs were employed on other work from which they could not be 
spared. However, it is believed that the work could have been per- 
formed satisfactorily by selected convicts at a considerable saving. 
In view of the fact that the cost of the convict labor was only about 
77 cents per working day and the average wage paid to free labor 
was $2.40, it seems probable that the saving would have amounted 
to fully one-half the labor cost, or approximately $350, a reduction 
of about 18 per cent. 
