The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-30
COMMISSIONERS IN
A ''RA|S|NG CAME
After Boosting Their Own Sal
aries, They Proceed to Boost
Those of Friends.

After raising their own salaries TO the
maximum under the law enacted by the
last legislature. and to stop whisperings
which have been going around ever since,
the board OF county commissioners is
again raising n few other salaries. inns
time the commits sioners, who are always
economical In spending the taxpayers
money, especially by giving themselves
increased salaries have seen NJ TO IN
crease the pay OF their poll teal support L
crs. who. are holding subordinate pos,oi11ns es1ns
mating the maximum salaries Tor county
officers had scarcely been passed iasl
spring before the commissioners got busy
and shot their own salaries up 10 the top.
This became effective July !.
Then began the trouble Everybody be-
gan to clamor for more pay; and county
employees who had '1obbied" In the leg
islature for the passage OF tho bill. whlch
made il possible for John G. Mackay and
his two associates to raise their own
of the understanding that a raise would
be made on q percentage basis But not
so. When the action OF the commits
sioners was announced II was just Sc.
lected few whose salaries were increased
and persons who were just as much en- =
titled to an increase as those who got
it-some perhaps more so-were forsot-
ten.
The work OF Mackay and his associates
was Indignantly discussed among various
county employees yesterday; Because
and honest work went unrewarded and
unheeded so far as the county commits
sloners were concerned, Through the
adjustment OF salaries the county pay
roll is increased practically $4,000 year.
that is including the increases made
several months ago In the salaries OF the
commissioners and county oIlceTS, III RS. em-
ployees salaries was made some time
Inst week-owing 10 the clandestine and
executive" manner in which the com
I, n,l, hncI
knows when-but at any rate employees
of the county who were not among the
favored few are OF the opinion that the
commissioners had due reason to keep II
quiet and to break the news gently,
County physician A. n. Hanson, under
the new, adjustment" receives an In IN
crease Of $40 mo7,hWslsS s,eITsnson from Sl'G is
raised from sl2o to Sl25.
L. P. Paine. In the county clerks Of T.,
hce receives sl25 month, instead OF
S1oo.
George. Wilson, chief clerk in the coun-
~ auditors office, Is raised from sloo TO
2. II. Jacobs chief clerk In the county
s25@sl5o instead OF SIPS. w. j. Moore,
assistant, is raised from Sis to s126
In the county attorneys office Chief
from $125 TO $50 Nephi Jensen from s12O
to $40. Charles NJ Morris from 500 to
Jesse l.. SdDIon cIici Al VIC
county recorders office. is raised from
J. Pariey White. chief deputy in the
10 $50; AxeI II. Steele, chief criminal
deputy. from s100 to 1925: J. e. Bur-
bidge. chief jailer, from 500 TO Sl2o.
In the surveyors office j. G. Tuckfelds
S. C. Whitaker and John Anderberg are
increased from 81 day TO So day when
on duty.
w a Leatham. chief clerk in the as
SCISSORS office, Is increased from sloo TO
SIPS a month
The raises made by the commissioners
last spring when they undertook to eco
nomically spend the taxpayers money to
take advantage OF the salary grab
given them by the state legislature fol-
lows:
Commissioners. C. Mackay. former
ly sl25 per month, now s20S.33 per
month; o. w Carlson. formerly $125 per
month";, now S20S.S3; w. j, Burton. for
merly 1925 per month, now s20S.33;
County Clerk Margaret Zane Witcher,
formerly 5000 per month. now S266. sc.
Sheriff ]. c. Sharp, formerly $3.50 per
month, now s291.67.
Recorder +: J; A. Jaques, formerly
Si6666. now S220.Si
Treasurer Fred c. Bassett, formerly
$20S33, now 1915.
Assessor Amos s. Gabbott, formerly
Auditor C. r. Vigus, formerly $3.50. now
5000.
Surveyor II. Allan Gardner, formerly
800. now sl66e5,
County Attorney /, E. Wiley. formerly
So0S 90 now So75