The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-27
MORE MONEY FOR
VARIOUS CLERKS
County Commissioners Raise Salaries
All Along the Line and Pre-
pare to Buy Gravel.

Signs of the fight between the county
commissioners and County Clerk David
Mattson were shown at yesterdays ses-
sion of the commissioners, when the pro-
posed increase of salary of some of the
deputy county clerks was brought up
After some unkind things were said by
the different parties to the controversy a
compromise was effected.
Four weeks ago a communication was
submitted by Mr.. Mattson, who appointed
p P. Brown chief deputy and w. D. Van
Dyke as second in command of the clerk
once The two named were the youngest
employees of the office, and the action was
therefore opposed, especially by Chairman
stanford, who reported adversely on the
recommendation Of the clerk, who pro-
posed an Increase in salary as well for the
appOintees.
The matter was postponed at the time
for further report from Mr.. Stanford,
who is the committee on offices and court
mousse The report submitted yesterday
was as follows;
Having been in communication with
the of the several departments with one
exception, and being approached by them
ana otherwise having made myself IA
millar with the ability and services rem
deTed by deputies and clerks in the sew
era1 offices. and in view of the fact also
that the public tendency is for advanced
wages for every class of labor, I move the
following to be the clerks wages in the
county clerks office dating from March I,
&c. P Brown, chief deputy. $50 80; w. D.
Van Dyke, jr., deputy, $50; Genet Bling
ham, deputy, $50; Carl Allison and George
Richie, deputies, So; Evelyn Hendershot
deputy, $50, and Edith l. Reid, deputy,
THE understanding being by this ad-
vance that no payment is considered or
viii be made for overtime work. but that
in the several departments faithful,
punctual, diligent service will be rendered
rs required by the heads of the different
departments to which each employee be-
And then the fun commenced. There
was a long discussion in which all the
commissioners, as well as the county
clerk, took a hand. Chairman Joseph
ing in his private Office with a reporter
for certain paper trying to besmirch his
character and reputation. This the cOun-
" clerk denied, and stated that he mere
ly gave out information which the news
papers sought, and which were a part of
the public records To this statement Mr.
Stanford replied that these matters had
come to him quite frequently and that
they We're common public rumors. but he
would not enter into any controversy
Later Mr. Stanford accused the county
clerk Of previously showing favoritism to
Deputy George Richie, when there were
marriages to perform, and that since the
present question had arisen he threw all
this business to Deputy Brown who is
also an elder. This was also denied by
Mr.. Mattson, who retorted:
What has that to do with the Office,
Mr.. Stanford said that it was matter
of remuneration to Mr.. Richie, which it
would appear that he was trying to throw
TO Mr.. Brown after he had been made
chief deputy and recommended for an in
crease of salary Here Commissioner
MadSen interposed with the thought that
the commissioners should not try to take
the handling of the clerks office out of
the clerks hands.
Mr.. Mattson then opposed the increase
Of salary for the other members of his
force other than that recommended by
him, and gave as his reason that their eff
nClency was not such as to warrant the
increase. He excepted Miss Henderson,
from this statement
Commissioner Wilson offered an amend
ment to Mr.. Stanford's motion to the ef-
feet that the recommendations of the
county clerk be approved, and that an in
crease of s. per month be granted to each
Of the other employees of the department.
rms was adoopted by the board, Mr. Stan
After this episode closed the commits
sioners seemed to get the salary increase
habit H w Naisbitt, IT., clerk in the
treasurer's Office, was increased from
$3.50 TO $3.50; Aaron G. Nav, formerly
with the T. 9 NJ L in this city, was con-
hrmed as clerk in the treasurer's office,
and the salary made $50 Four clerks on
the assessors office were increased from
$3.50 to s. per day. The salary of Deputy
Sheriff Seymour Clark was made $50 and
Deputy Barlow Wilson, recently made
chief deputy to Sheriff Sebring, was in
creased from $3.50 TO $3.50 Even the
janitOT Of the court house came in for a
raise of s..
The appointment of John NJ. Grow as
deputy county fish and game warden was
approved by the board.
The matter of securing gravel for the !
county roads came in for a lengthy dis /
cussiOn, after Chairman Joseph Stanford 1
had submitted report to the effect that /.
he had investigated the cost of securing 4
material for the county roads and that he 4
had abandoned the idea Of securing the
material from PT0mOntOry Point He re-
ported that he had conferred with the
Union Pacific railroad people and that
they had agreed to furnish good road
at so per car Of fifty tons deiiv-
cred at any point along their line in We
Der county He recommended that the
county purchase from 500 to $50 cars of the /
material al the fixed cost, which would i
mean an expenditure of about S125OO. He
also asked that the same be distributed |
to the following districts; Wilson, River
dale, Plain City, Warren, Farr West. Hot
Springs, West Weber, Statewide Hoop
Pr and Roy.
The board is of the opinion that in view
)f the betterment Of the roads the resi-
1ents throughout the county should assist
N the work, and It is likely that a special /
road tax Of from 2ia to mills will be
levied.