The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-13


not claimed; this to be done without ex-
pense to the city. Adopted
The petition of Joseph Muir to be allowed
10 tap the Jordan and Salt Lake canal for
the purpose OF obtaining water for sprink-
ling purposes was denied, as enough water
can be obtained from the irrigation ditch.
SALARIES OF CITY OFFICIALS.
The committee on the cost of maintain
ing and number of permanent employees in
the several municipal departments, re-
ported as follows:
CITY AUDITORS DEPARTMENT.
One auditor at 81, 800 per year.
CITY REcoRDER's DEPARTMENT
One recorder, 81, 400 per year: one deputy
Clerk, 30 per month"; one typewriter, $500 per
year; ,dotal-F1ve employees at Sc leo per gear,
OF SooS.5575 per month.
CITY TREASURES DEPARTMENT.
One treasurer, sa4OO per year; one deputy
al guy per year; one license man, ST. 600 per year.
Iotal-Three men at 81, 800 per year. or S40S. 1875
per month.
SEWER DEPARTMENT.
One superintendent at 81 600 per year; one en-
glneer at sump 81, 200 per year; one assistant
engineer might man. S728 per year; one clerk
ao S.oo per year; three men and teams, 81, 716
~ SSoi OHS lOreHldI, $3.50 per year; one pipe
gauger, S7S0 per year. Total-Nine men at
% $40 per year, or 1878. 3315 per month. Labor
ers receive 81 per week. or 81 per day. There
are often more than one foreman and pipe
eauger employed and sometimes there are none
employed, therefore they are not properly per-
manent employees This Will show still, prob
aply under rather than over. the annual and
monthly cost OF maintaining the department..
CITY ENGINEERS DEPARTMENT.
One city engineer, 5000 per year; one as,
|
draughtsman. s., 500; three assistant draughts-
men, So 600 per year: one clerk. 1000 pery year;
Two roaInen, $3.50 per year; ono man and
team o. s48 per year; one janitor, sl44 per year;
one inspector of plumbing and sewer, 81, $50 per
year: Total, twelve employees, S15o72, or
! Sl,3O6 per month.
smith, Jr., at S.. 90 per day and rodman at
- 80 per day are employed as their services
are required from day to-day, which makes the
a Dove figures an underestimate, though they
cannot be called permanent employees.
! STREET DEPARTMENT.
| One supervisor, 1900 per year; one superin-
tendent poll tax 81, 092 per year, So so per day;
one ONCE boy. $500 per year, S. per week; one
stable man, $3.50 per year. or 81 per day; one
carpenter and flume man, $3.50 per year, or &. so
per day; driver city cart, 1924 per year, or
q per day; two drivers Guy teams, 81, 248 per
year, or ~ per day each. Total, eight men,
| 81, ia per year, or 1894. 30 per month The sup.
erintendent of poll tax also acts as clerk to the
! supervisor. A collector Of poll tax is employed
in season at 81. so per day and this system col
lected the poll tax in 1891 at cost OF Is $40
| per cent. There are three foremen employed
| in this department they are needed at a sal
airy OF So So So 90 and So 80 per day respectively.
LaborerS, 81 90 per day, and teams with
drivers at only 50. so per day.
CITY CEMETERY.
One sexton. 81, 200 per year
CITY WATER TAX COLLECTOR.
One assessor and collector Sl.5C0 per year;
one clerk, $500 per year. Total, two men, s., 400
per year, or 500 per month.
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
One marshal and chief of police, So 400 per
year; one acting captain, 81, 40 per year, or
Si20 per month; two sergeants, $3.50 per year,
or Sll0 per month each; one acting sergeant,
| Sl,o2O per year. or clio per month; seventeen
patrolmen, S17O0 per year, or 500 per month
each; eight patrolmen, $40 per year, or 500 pei
month; one special, $1,000 per year; two spe
clals ~ 100 per year, or $50 per month each; one
desk sergeant 81 200 per year: one court baillf
BLU per year; one night clerk. 81 200 per year
two mounted police &, $40 per year. or Sll0 pei
month each; two patrol drivers, 81 100 per year
or $40 per month each; one park police, 81, 0S.
per year, or 500 per month: one guard at Jail
Sl.OoO per year; one iailor $500 per year or S75
per month; one electrician, $50 per year, or SlE
per month. Total, forty-four men, IS, go pei
year, or s. lo1. 6625 per month.
WATER WORKS DEPARTMENT
One superintendent $1,000 per year; three
y
week (seven nights and days.; one man emf
grafton pump, 500 per year, or Sl7.!0 per week
(seven days. three night watchmen, j., 366 pei
year, or $40. 80 per week; for men and teams
| $3.50 per year, or s67. so PER week six days)
two men and teams, Sl,7l6 per year, or S33 pei
| week (SlX days.; SIX men on mains. 81 $40 pei
year. or Ss2.t per week lose at SIX days and
tive at seven days.; one clerk, Sl,0l0 per year,
or $50 per week. To al, twenty-0ne men, SIS, s2I
per year, or 81 49, per month. Forem en- get S.
per day and laborers ~ per day.
CITY ATTORNEY IS DEPARTMENT.
One city attorney, &. 800 per year; one assist
ant $1,000 per year. Total-Two men, 81 OOt
per year, or S333.3315 per month.
POLICE JUSTICE.
One judge, 81 1900 per year; one clerk. ST.
per year. Total-two men, 81, 200 per year, O
Ss25 per month.
BOARD OF PUBLIC works.
One chairman s1,5cO per year; four members
| SS12. % per year; one clerk, 500 per year
Total-Six men, So 81 p per year, or S2Sl. O
per month.
BOARD OF HEALTH
One health commissioner, 81, 500 per year; on
sanitary inspector $1,000 per year. one cit
phys clan, 5000 per year; one clerk, $500 pc
year; three members, 500 per year each Tota
Seven men, 4,s0o per year, or 1900 per month
WATER MASTERS DEPARTMENT.
One water master, So eco per year: five depu
ties, $500 per year, or ZOO per year each
Total, six men, 1880 per year, or S54I. 662S pc
month. Feed is fur n!shed for one horse 70
each deputy.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
One chief s., COO per year; five men s., eco De
year, or $50 per month each TWENTY-FIVE men
| si9,S0O per year or SO per month each; twent
men al call, $1,000 per year, 900 Ter year each
Total forty-eight men, SsS, COS per year. or & 30
per month.
ASSESSOR AND COLLECTOR.
One assessor and collector: one assistant
Sl,SC0 per year; two assistants, 81, 4G0 per year
Total, "a, goo per year
RECOMMENDATIONS
Your committee respectfully recommend
that the following retrenchments be made
{ First-That the city assessor and collector b
) requ red to report al as early date as possibl
any retrenchmentS to be made in his depart
, ment; and your committee further respec
! fully recommends that the city sections ofhc
= be made salaned one at Sl,210 per year. hi
house rent being furnished him free of chara,
, as now. Second-qhat duties of the enginee
y of construction OF sewers at 50 per CAV, ana hl
y assistant at s.. so per day, be performed by tn
= permanent employees in the city engineers d.
' partment. Third-That the office of sanitar
y inspector be made a salaried Office. salary to Il
fixed by this council, and that tie recorder b
y instructed to have prepared a book of receipts
perforated in three sections, the stub to renal
in the recorders Office the second section 10
y left with citizen. signed by inspector and To
U third section signed by citizen and returned
v recorder by inspector, To correspond as 10 nun
y her, eacn section showing transaction as
character Of, and cost OF load removed by san
tary inspector. That the city council fix til
D cost 10 the citizen for removing each dead or
imal, each load of garbage and for cleaniu
each closet and ceSSpool.
10 ft1ss for1lT.1 "a