Laravel: Get pivot data for specific many to many relation
On the relationships for both User and Target, tack on a ->withPivot('type') which will instruct Laravel to include that column. Then once you have your result set, you can access the field with $user->pivot->type.
If you're not iterating over a collection, but have a user and one of their targets and want the type field, you could use $target = $user->targets->find($targetId) and access the type with $target->pivot->type.
More at http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/eloquent#working-with-pivot-tables
You can also limit columns by passing array as 2nd arg to simplePaginate
$query->users()->simplePaginate($per_page, ['users.id', 'users.email']);