Iditarod pioneer., 1911-12-09

note, however, that upon applying this amount to your account, our books show that you have overpaid Us to the exten' of $S5. 40, and that amount now stand> to your credit. This error seems to have been caused by duplicate pay ment of item covered by yard slip No. 2,333, which was included in our August statement, but, being still un paid, was included in subsequent statement rendered by Us in September last.
 In passing, we are constrained to say that the indebtedness due from the town to this company has been lon= outstanding. and has been handled b, your finance committees in manner most unsatisfactory to Us.
 Our accounts have been sjde-tracked igeon-holed, referred, lost sight OG rereIerred; subsequentbi;is cf sub sequent creditors boosted ahead and paid prior to ours, until, finally, under protest from us, they have beeu dug up, passed upon, sarca sticaIly and unfavorabIy commented upon, and finally paid in such manner as to make it impossible for Us to deterrr inc just which items your various town warrants were intended to cover.
 To illustrate: Our August statement called for payment of Sl ,O&2 10 and was accompanied by yard slips showing the different items of lumber delivered, dates of delivery and by whom ordered. Your committee hung up this account and pigeon -holed 1t for the reason thai the various yard slips were not re Ceipted for by some member of the council, evidently expecting that our teamster, after delivering d load of lumber at a point dcsigna'ed by your street committee, should then proceed should find member of your council who would or could receipt for the lum- Der so delivered. Such procedure seems to Us to be prepoSterous, es pecialIy when the councilman who or dered the lumber was present at your council meetings, and could readily OK. the bills, and thus do away with the proposed necessity of the balance of the committee or council having to go to DIkeman to see If the ium- Der was delivered there.
 As stated our August statement was for the sun of S1,092 10 and covered items of lumber furnished in June, July .and the early part of August, upon orders of your street committee, and yet nothing was paid on that ac- count until Sept. II. and then only the sum of $269 90, under your warrant No. l0I, leaving d considerable balance due us at that time.
 In September we furnished you a subsequent statement, containing new items, and inadvertently including the bill of S95.40 which had been already rendered, but not paid. This statement was also referred to a committee and promptly lost sight of until Nov. 2, l when under protest from us at such | procedure, the matter was resurrect ed and a warrant, No. l32, for Sl36. l5, paid on account.
 The next payment was on Nov. 10, being warrant No, 139 for $S22 30. All of these warrants were made up by yourselves, and did not convey to us any idea of the different items you in- tended to pay, and our books did not show any overcharge, nor any dis crepancy in your account until pay ment to us yesterday of your warrant No. Fl $269 S0 which when applied shows your account overpaid as already stated.
 Had your finance committee acted upon our accounts promptly and in a