The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-30
CASE SUMMARIZED.
REVIEW OF THE POINTS EsTAB-
LIsHED AGAINST THE BOARD.
Facts That Have Been Fully Demon
stratedi-No Retaliation Possible
Statement From u Member of the
Davis County Board.


from day to day through the columns
of The Herald. At this time a brief
review of the matter is appropriate.
1t should be perfectly plain that some
things have been established beyond
all question. Among them are
First: The present board OF commas
sioners have already more than ex-
hausted the revenue of the county
accruing from all sources in the year
1896
Second: They have raised money on
notes of the county without authority
of law in the sum of S52, 800 though one
note for $4,000 has since been con-
verified into q warrant of that amount.
Third: They have, in defiance or law,
withheld that money from the county
treasurer, depositing it in banks. pay
ing per cent interest to the bank Tor
the use of it and giving the bank an
additional security in the form OF war
rants part of which, by resolution OF
the board, draw interest at per cent
Fourth: They have violated the ex-
press provision of the statute by buy
ing of and selling to themselves. as
individuals. supplies for the county.
Fifth: They have favored a certain
section of the county in the way OF
public improvements far in excess OF
$1,000
CANNOT BE REFUTED.
These propositions cannot be success
fully disputed in the light of the figures
given by The Herald since Saturday
last. Yet in the face of the above facts
the Republican stumpers are asserting
that there will be $4,000 to turn over
to the incoming board. These stumpers
must take their figures from the Trib-
flo for
two sources in all Utah from which
such a ridiculous statement could en-
anate.
The Herald showed yesterday where
in three items the Tribune had made
Misrepresentation, plain flashing OF
figures in the sum of $77,000 And even
then The Herald did not point out IN
Vulnerable other ways in which the
figures were juggled. The Tribune
Jumped in as available for general ex-
penses the tax redemption money when
that money has to be distributed - the
| sinking fund, school fund and otner
special funds just as other tax money
OUTSTANDING NOTES.
But even if by some miracle, that
sum had escaped and was in the treas
ury, it has been shown and is admitted
1 that there are notes outstanding
against the county given this year in
the sum of $40, 500. AS a matter of
fact all the taxes are never collected
and rarely are more than three-fourths
of them collected before Jan. 1. Now
the available taxes are less than $685.
900.
When the remissions and deductions
have been taken away there will be
very little over 100000, and of this sum
it will be impossible to collect more
than $4,000 before Jan. /.
ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION.
AS another illustration of the COM
missioners' record for economy the re-
! cent contract for the Beacher bridge
has been pointed out. 1t has been
signed by two members, Wilson and
| Child, and the bridge is to cost, ex-
elusive of the right of way, 1885. Yet
well-informed people of that locality
saw the bridge was not at all needed;
that it will benefit mainly the Pioneer
Electric Power company which has a
lot of unoccuDied land over in that
locality which it is trying to coionize.
DAVIS COUNTY STATEMENT.
A day or two ago The Herald said
something about the Weber canyon
road and commented on the fact that
that locality was as much in need as
was Ogden canyon. Yesterday COM
munication was received from a Davis
county commissioner which is here
given. The Herald is not afraid of the
truth and it has never charged the
things which Mr.. Nader has inferred
1t has charged that if $4,000 was to be
expended on canyon roads WEBER
county should have had more thar
enough to keep it barely passaple.
Layton, Utan, oct. -.
tn tho Editor of The Herald.
[ have been interested in reading
what The Herald has had to say witt
regard to the doings of the county com
nissioners of Weber county, and while
realize that the actions of public ON
GERS are legitimate matters to be dls
cussed in the press and otherwise, ant
each party considers they are justitief
in holding up to the public gaze VIVA
they think are the mistakes OF theI
opponents, at the same time l am sur
The Herald desires to fight fair ant
would not Intentionally misrepresen
even though of an opposite poli.ica
party for the sake of putting them ii
a false light before the people.
This must be my excuse for calm:
the attention of The Herald to Sigh
error in your issue of yesterday II
speaking of the effort to have tn
wagon road in Weber canyon changed
to the north side of the river. A per
son reading your article might infe
that the Weber county commission
were to blame for the bids for tn
construction of the road being refused
which is not the case, and if you nav
been so informed, it is an error.
The facts are as follows: The Davi
& Weber Counties Canal compan
some time ago expressed a desir
through some of its directors to effec
some arrangement with the count
boards of Weber and Davis counties b
which the road could be changed fror
the south side of the river to the mort
side, thereby relieving them of tn
difficulty of keeping the road free fror
ice during the fall and early winter
which was made very dangerous there
by. As the bridge near the Devil
Gate, which was built jointly by Dav1
and Weber counties. was washed ava
last May by the high water. TIL
seemed an opportune time to negotiat
for the change as it would cost n
more to rebuild the bridge at the mout
of the canyon than at the old sit
Consequently an agreement was er
tered into between the canal compan
and the county boards of the two cour
ties, each agreeing to pay oue-thir
of the cost of building the road on tn
north side of the river.
In the meantime bids were solicite
: for the building of the road. and negc
tiations were entered into with til
/, Union Pacific Railway company *
right of way. The railway compan.
instead of offering aid as you stat
through it's officers tried to put OF
stacles in the way of the change, an
when finally the right of way wa
granted it was only conditional. an
Tho r,fao Sr1ra Of said r1i11ve