The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-03

The county commissioners met again
yesterday and considered the fixing of
salaries for the deputies in the various
county offices. 1t is not an easy task
to perform to the satisfaction of the
employees as well as the taxpayers
in general hence it is not a surprise
that no definite action was taken yes
terday
The board was in executive session
all morning and it is understood they
reached a decision and prepared a
schedule of salaries and the number of
clerks to be allowed each department.
1t was not officially announced, how
ever, for the reason that several legal
questions remain to be settled. and as
County Attorney Whittemore was sick
yesterday his opinion could not be had.
The law recently Iassed provides that
no deputies shall be paid to exceed two
thirds of the salary paid the head of
the department In the case of the as
SCISSOR he reports having paid his two
deputies 1925 and $110 per month re-
spectively from January 4 up to the
present time According to the law
passed by the legislature they will be
entitled to only 800 per month, and
now the board wants to know if it can
legally allow the amount paid in excess
of the limit fixed in the recent act.
Assessor Lynch has receipts, he says
showing that this excessive amount
as above stated has been paid his dep
utieS since January 4, and asks that the
court allow him the amount.
The board is of the opinion that they
cannot allow the claim for any amount
in excess of 500 per month. Still, Mr.
L - l.
terpret the law on the point.
The next point to be decided by the
county attorney is whether the board
can allow any deputy or clerk any extra
compensation in excess of the regular
salary for work performed over hours.
This is designed to cover the case of
Al Reese and George Loomis. Under
the legislative act they are each emit
tied to a salary not to exceed. 81, 500
per year But County Clerk Stanton in
his report to the board states
that he has been paying them
S175 per month each. These
extra allowances are for performing
the duties Of bookkeepers after regu-
lar business hours. Mr.. Stanton rec
ommends that in addition to the 900
per year they he allowed $500 per
year each for doing this additional
work The question is whether the
law recognizes such a proposition. /
The board IS inclined to believe that !
it cannot he done; that if the Office /
needs a bookkeeper one should be en-
gagged and paid a regular salary.
The third question to. be submitted !
to Attorney Whittemore is whether I
the board can Fix the salary of the /
county superintendent of schools for |
one or two years.
AS previously stated, the board pre-
pared a schedule, but it was not Of !
ficially given ont or acted upon. To /
accommodate the force in the re- |
corder's office, however, the result of |
their deliberations IN this department /
was given out. and which show the I
following number OF employees to- |
gether with the salary agreed upon:
Fl. H. McKaig, chief deputy ...... $40 90 /
n II. Mack assistant deputy. 10 90 |
S. Seth Stone, assistant deputy. 10 60
Alice Crismon, copyist........... 60 90
Florence Roundy, copyist.....-.. 90 90 I
Alice Ebel, copyist.. 60 90
Monthly pay roll help only. $500 90
II will be noted that the only ma
terial change made in the recommen-
dations Of Recorder Crismon was cut
ting down the salaries of the copyists
from SIS to $50 per month. The two
chief deputies were cut from SILL
per month. No reduction was made
in the force.
Fish and Game Commissioner Heath,
who asked to be allowed salary OF
$500 per year and a deputy during the
busy season to be paid 81 per day, has
his compensation fixed at $500 per year,
while the privileges of deputy was
denied.
There was considerable stir among
the deputy sheriffs over what would be
their fate in the matter of salaries, but
they were doomed to be disappointed
~
til tomorrow. 1t is generally expected,
however, that their salaries will be
fixed at about $S5 per month or $50 at
the most. This is not in any way au-
thoritative, but the result of public
feeling, which seems to be that a dep
uty sheriff should be content with
salary equal to a policeman.
The Cottonwood Water, Power and
Electric company (limited) by Frank K.
Gillespie, secretary and manager, peti-
toned the court for a franchise to f;
transmit electrical current throughout
The county. The petition goes on to
state that the company is now and has
been for some time past actively en-
gagged in the work of development of its
the financing of IT'S project, and will
within a few weeks let contracts for
the machinery and equipments neces- {
sary to install and operate its water
power and electrical station and its ,
distributing stations throughout Salt
Lake county and adjoining counties,
during the present calendar year, the /
Of the same being expected I
by Oct. l, 1896.
your petitioners therefore respect
fully ask that your honorable body
grant to it a franchise for the erection
ara maintenance and operation of its :
water power and it's electrical distribu- :,
tion system in Salt Lake county for a {
period OF fifty years, and that it be c
granted the right to erect poles along i
the county roads of said county for
said purposes: and that it be given I'M
til May l, 1897, to complete and place 6
said water power and electrical distri- {
button in operation" t
TIE petition was referred TO the COM T
missioners to be considered at some L
later day.
This company gets its water power 3
from Little Cottonwood creek. c
Adolph Hoffman w. w. Randolph s
and Joseph Soils were granted certif- g
Gates to spray fruit trees. s
c. c. Fairchild was granted liquor i
license to retail at the corner of Tenth I
South and State streets.
Adjournment was then taken until
10 O'Clock tomorrow, when the fixing
If salaries will again come up for fur