The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-26

tent Of $13, 206 10. Receipts from miscel-
laneous sources were $50, 267, making
the years total revenue, including a
balance Of nearly $50, 900 in the treasury
on jan l, 1896, $620,609
For the year 1897 it is not anticipated
that the revenues from any of the chief
sources, except the waterWorks and po-
lice court, viii equal those of last year.
The license collections and the special
Improvement taxes will be perceptibly
less. The great item of reduction will
be in the general tax levy, which is at
6 2-3 mills on a low valuation. The
great inconvenience is the prospect of
the city finding itself without funds to
complete next years business. on a cash
basis. This is due largely to the city
council having levied a tax insult
tlcient FOR minimum needs. The de-
creased revenue of about $780, 600 will
necessitate rigid economy, but not nee
essarily such as to threaten the impair
ment of the efficiency of the public SER
vice
WHERE THE MONEY GOES.
The principal items in the disbuse-
nentS Tor 1896 show as follows: Off
cial salaries, S4S, 902; waterworks, $780,,
csc; police, 1855; fire, $28, S34; irriga-
ton, 81, 265; streets, 1908; engineer
ing, Sl4, $50; health, $11 ,005; cemetery,
:,
Liberty park, $4,907; crematory, $4,271;
street lighting, S2S 041; street sprink-
ling, $14, e07; mayors contingent fund,
$1,000; claims and damages, So, $50; sew
er farm and land, SIS, 106; paving and
sewer construction contracts, $90,470,-
including balance of $445 S3 on gravity
sewer and special tax refunds. Minor
items classed as miscellaneous make
the total $553, 207.
The expenditures for the year 1897
will be much less in each of the several
Departments and for the various ac-
counts than during the previous year.
Especially viii this be true with re-
spect to the official salary, police, fire,
health, street. WatetWorks and irriga-
ton accounts. a decrease will be no
ticeable in the funds raised by special
taxation for sewer and water main eX-
tensions. The items of street sprink-
ling, claims and damages, special tax
rebates and elections will be increased
to amounts that win tend to cut down
the saving in the directions noted as
compared with last year.
FIGURES FOR ELEVEN MONTHS.
For the eleven months of 1887, the to-
tai receipts were S432, 0O9, inclusive of
SCI, 40l, balance on hand the first of the
year. The disbursements foot Sab, 721
up TO Nov. 1. The difference or balance
is not the real cash balance in the
treasury, which is carrying as on hand
the sum of $l3, 402 which went with the
rest Of the deposits in the Bank OF
Salt Lake when it closed its doors.
Exclusive of December, the license
collections for the year amount to $102,-
S32; water rate collections, S60,292, and
fines and forfeitures, $14, 766. However,
this months receipts viii be somewhat
larger than usual. The sum of $4,000
ha sheen paid in on account of the 1897
tax levy and early in the year SAT ,6S1
was realized as the balance from the
taxes of 1895.
The work Of the retiring administra-
ton is not without merit. The past
year shows an improvemey.% over the
! previous one With less revenue and
equal or greater demands to meet, the
! incoming council Will profit by the err
rors in judgment Of their predecessors
and conduct the city's affairs accepta-
/ bly, for less money, as they must, than
has been done.
WHAT SALT LAKE OFFERS.
There are many essentials which have
1 to be combined in order to form the mos
desirable place for man to live in hap.
piness. Climatic conditions, surround
! ings, advantages, both natural and ar
/ tificial, have To be considered.
! When one takes all these enumerated
/ into consideration, the result is an un.
I answerable argument in favor OF Sal
Lake City as a place in which to live
I Climate is perhaps the most impor
tant. Favorable conditions in that re
1 spect tend to cause life to extend ovel
a longer vista of years than where dis
ease stalks abroad, ready to watt one
! across the dark river at any moment
/ And everyone wants to live as long a:
j possible.
The climate of this city is what may
! be justly termed superb. Its sum
mers are never so hot but one car
/ sleep comfortably of nights, and thu.
/ obtain the rest needed to cherish the
/ frame that it may successfully combat
! the years. The winters are never 81
/ frigid as to chill the blood, and by over.
( exertion in the supplying of carbon
/ cause q wear and tear of the tissue
which, continued, means early decay
] Think of climate which averages IS
sunny days in each year, with an aver
I age summer temperature of Y degrees
and an average winter temperature o.
/ "a, as shown by government reports
I covering a period of 20 years. Such {
condition is phenomenal in this lati
[ tude. How soothing such a state O
1 climate must be to the lungs, those i'm
portant organs which are SO suscepti