The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-02
FREAKS OF FINANCIERING.
A Bank Statement That Doesn't
State Anything Definite.


Some veritabfe gems of financiering
are shown by Mr.. Geddes ait times.
On September % the State Bank of
Utah presented its bill to the county,
wherein is shown that Mr.. Geddes paid
'for rent of paupers $17O;" food and
aid for furnishing employment, 500. rs; -
Transportation, sending paupers to
home, $S13.1O;" Stamps and care of
sick, $1667O;;" 'fcoal. $1475;' Interest
on overdraft, s1226, discount S37.1S-
1914" total SCOTIA And yet Mr.. Ged-
des o. KS. this bill and thinks it's all
right, and that he is a sure enough
business man. When this bill was
passed Mr.. Geddes asked The Herald
man Ito please say nothing about it
as it was all right
Another break lis for shale said to
have been delivered in three days by
the Quartzite Macadam company
"569,52O pounds, or 21O yards at 81.
per yard, $S62.SO; discount $3.50
$91796." And this bill was 20. K.'P'
and paid and no one stopped to think
how many teams 1T really required to
haul this much shale in three days; or
the price, or if it was hauled, where it
was put or anything about it,
Mr.. Roberts o. KID. the bills that
paid Charles j. Tineu and L. c. Jeffrey
S. a day as special officers at Bingham
on July 8, and 5. or $50. Bingham
policemen come high when Mr. Roberts
pays for them out of the county funds.
Perhaps the neatest bit of financial
leg-pulling which most forcibly shows
the utter fncapacity of the board and
the lack of Judgment of it's legal ad-
wiser, was when E. B. Tyson made a
Jerk Leg contract on June II with the
board for correcting pIats. 1t so turned
out that the plats could not be obtained
from the county assessor but Tyson
after working a few days or
the book of the recorder SEM
in some threatening bills about
suing for damages but was willing
to compromise the contract for sos. >
To the great surprise and utter disgust
OF all the county officials the board
! allowed this, and paid him sos
After he got the money he told Judge
McNlally that he didn't thil1 they were
quite such easy suckers and laughed
at how easily he had worked them.
In another part of this article the
fact is pointed out that the Electric
Light company had not presented bill.
for the county office lighting for sew
I he Lab
in a bunch, ranging from 1892 in June
to $62.40 in March, but the total foi
six months was $192.SS, or about a.
much for six months as it was fo
| January or December, previous.
Janitor Lees was paid sS721 for haul
ing shale in July, at the. same time h,
was paid $50 as janitor.
In the bill for work on State road
| a. J. Burton is said to have worked
twenty-nine and one41lalf days in tn.
month at $3.50 per day, $1O3.25; and E
H. Stool works thirty-six one-quarte
days at Sc a day. $2175O. Will Mr.
Roberts kindly explain this?
| In borrowing the road roller from
Ogden, used on the State road, Nj
GeddeS takes men from here, pays tf1ei
fares and hotel expenses and Incl
dentals to load the roller on the cars
S15.25. Then MI. Roberts o. KS al
Ogden city claim for Cooking at role
when it left Ogden, s25," looking a
roller when it came back to Ogden an,
repairs, $17.5O." For use of road role
$780," Total Ogden expense $157.7
Added to this Is one item of E. H
Stout's expense for team of sec 70
eleven days and the road roller bill
without the freight, Is S22375 whicl
would buy road roller.
T. J. Williams was given a contrac
to fix the Mill Creek bridge for $35 Blu
he was paid SGT, 1872 extra" for what
]. Boyes was paid a bill Of $4O54 80
difference for shaIe hauling in July, re
ported from Mill Creek instead of. BIZ
Cottonwood. Jee whizl Then he add
a bill for $40 ito damage to harness
wagon and loss of TOOLS" by ''bridg
giving away" The blacksmith at Muir
ray claims to have made all damage
good for SO. Why $40? The bill wa
paid,
THE COUNTY INFIRMARY.
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