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Show Published Every Saturday BY GOODWIN8 WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. JAMES P. CASEY Business Manager p. GALLAGHER, Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: Including postage in the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico $2.50 per year, .50 for six months. Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal Inlon, $4.50 per year. 8lngle copies, 10 cents. Payment should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, pay able to The Citizen. Addresa all communlcatlone to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the Postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 8a!t Lake City, Utah. Ness Bldg. Phone Wasatch 5409. 311-12-- 13 STATE FUNDS USED TO FA VOR BAMBERGER LINE The Democrats promised the state of Utah a n business and in some respects they have kept their promise. It vas business, for example, that dictated the routing of cement over he Bamberger road at freight rates in excess of those charged by he steam roads. It was good business administration for the Bam-jergroad, but the excess cost to the taxpayers of Utah was admin-stratio- er 568.75. Perhaps some of our taxpayers will consider this but a modest SAum to pay for the honor of having a railroad owned by the iiior of the state and named after him, but we think that a majority ''of those who are gouged for taxes in this era of painfully burdensome taxation feel that even the saving of $3,568 is not to be derided. The saving of that amount would have reduced the Democratic deficit and made a slightly better showing, but perhaps the members of the state road commission argued that the deficit was so big that an item of $3,568 would not be noticed. It is only one example of the wastefulness of the state road commission, of which the governor himself is a member. The overhead expense of that commission has been almost terrifying when we roads that have been built consider the amount of with the aid of the counties and the federal government. A statement compiled by Auditor Riric discloses the oveshead and miscellaneous expenses of the various projects under construction by the state road commission, the percentages being compiled hard-surfac- To Date Provo, Aug. 19 Bello, Sept. 12 Bello, Sept. 23 Aug. 23 ... Aug. 20 ... Aug. 25 ... Aug. 27 ... Sept. 1 .. Aug. 27 Harmon, Aug. 2S .. Harmon, Sept. 3 .. Harmon, Sept. 5 .. Harmon, Sept. 1 .. Hannon, Aug. 30 .. Harmon, Aug. 29 .. Bello, Sept. 22 .. Bello, Sept. 22 Lindon, Sept. 8 Flanges, Flanges, Flanges, Flanges, Flanges, Flanges, J i -- ed from expenditures made during the month of March, 1920. This schedule shows a total overhead, including 50 per cent for items, of 242 per cent as compared with the amount disbursed for labor on state roads. In private businesses the labor cost is usually the largest, but in the business administration of a Democratic state road commission, the overhead is 242 per cent as compared with the cost of labor. We present herewith a few figures to show what it means when special privileges and favors are shown the Bamberger road. The figures relate to cars of cement shipped by the state road commission from Devils Slide to points in the southern part of the state, the shipments being routed over the Union Pacific, the Bamberger Electric and the Utah railroad. Had these shipments been routed over the Union Pacific, the Oregon Short Line and the Utah railroad the state would have saved $3,568.75 in freight. In other 'words, it cost the state $3,568.75 more to ship the material over the Bamberger Electric than over the steam railroads. The following schedule omits the points of origin of the cement. In all but five instances the cement came from Devils Slide. In the five instances the cement shipments originated at Bakers. The routing, therefore, was over the O. S. L. instead of the U. P. in these five instances, and, of course, over the Bamberger in all instances. The schedule of shipments is as follows: mis-ccllaneo- ds |