Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-09-17

of the orderly efficient found r the
building for that matter public building in the
country.
Board Of Equalization.
The reference made above exception was to the
Board OF Equalization Under the orman administration
this the star Office of the building For the last Tour
months of that administration record of meeting
of board kept For months before that rec
ords kept briefly and carelessy that mposs
bic find what done. No effort whatever was
made to set down of bills allowed and there is
no Of telling by comparison of these books
with those OF the auditor when whether particular
bill allowed by the board o. not
All is changed. Records kept Of all meetings
business ranacted and records OF all the bills
allowed. and the creditors and the amounts allowed to
each. tell by comparing the books with
auditors just any particular bill allowed
and when paid to whom and for what In department
the promise eorduc busnesslike administration
been completely kept than this and in one,
perhaps the land office Is the contrast with its pre-
decessor greater.
Printing Department.
In department has the actual saving of cash been
the printing department The greatest scan
with the printing $4,000 had been paid for printing to
firm during the biennial period. Prices had been
allowed for articles from four times their
actual market value
Legislature in session supreme in the
ordering print well other things
Legislature used nearly s5oeoo WORTH and this
OF the paid for House and Senate jour
nails and session laws The biennial reports which were
officials of the previous administration but paid
for after the present in. amounted to about
$50 900.
the expenses for printing for
the first nineteen months OF this administration COM
pared with the corresponding nineteen months OF the pre-
yioas administration, in round numbers sSoooo.
against $4,000 reduction of sixty and onehaf per
cent and saving of $4,000 Prices have been reduced
to level with those paid by large private concerns OF
corporations There a absence OF graft in
the states printing affairs No longer does the state pay
$50 thousand for manila envelopes and the bills rem
dered longer full of extras"
There so many departments. and their work Is 30
varied that impossible condense into short letter
any ineligible of their work. Suffice II to say
that the engineers Office the and fish commissioners
Office the office of the Board of Stock Inspectors have
had their work doubled than doubled by new ess
aton that every OF them is making record for
faithful and efficient service which will be hard to match
in future The dairy commissioner has proved to very
makers and sellers of filled cheese and oeo butter
that the really enforce the law in regard
TO these things The boiler inspector has had large In
Of business The inspector Of mines with totally
insufficient done incredible amount of work.
mines general in much better physical
The bureau Of mines
and the horticultural department in addition to their regu
lar work. have made exhibits at the St Louis fair that
have attracted and st attracting to the state scores
OF visitors. Every department, in fact has made new
OF efficiency and in every the people
poyed take professional pride in the work they doing
The law department. and the adjuant generals.
extensive that only reference be made to them As
for the attorney general be stated that In addition
to the tremendously important cGses-Kansas vs.
Colorado and Meyer the State-he has had fifty pc
cent and performed it with good deal more
than nifty per cent decrease In the extra counsel EN-
ployed ninety per cent Of his
the and has disposed of than
vious attorney general.
What the adjuant general has done may be seen OF
every one Even Messrs. Meyer and Haywood would be
admit that has made of the national guard OF
Colorado body OF real soldiers and that they have done
things" and done them thoroughly and efficiently.
When the record OF this administration is made next
January will dcul. match in fullment OF the
pledge made by the convention that nominated its
business in general efficiency in honest
public service.