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Show USE LARGE SUM FOR RJ WORK Nearly $600,000 of $860,000 Warrants in July Spent On Highways. SALT LAKE, July 31 Approximately Approxi-mately 1600,000 of the $6u(OO0 In1 warrants issued by the state of Utah In July was for slut roads. This was' .announced yesterday ut the closing of the state's books In the office of Jo-1 seph Klrle, state auditor, for the' month. Mark A. Tutt! who has been chief 'deputy state auditor for close to eight I years, will leave the office today and! will be an active candidate for the I Republican party nomination to sue-! I Mr. Illne Walter A. Day. depu- t y in charge of road accounts, closed a connection of several jears with the I office yesterda . H will temporarl-ly temporarl-ly enter the set vice of Llncom (j. Kel-ly, Kel-ly, LOrmarly state auditor and now ! engaged In a private auditing practice. prac-tice. I 'ihe statement of the disbursements I I of the month, as prepared fjr the last I time under Mr. 1 uttie's chief deputy-' .ship, snows disbursements from tho ! genera fund of the state of SS,SSl.-1 7. of which ISSl.S7S.Si was for mis-, ecllaneou purposes And Si6,S4t.81 foi state roui purposea. The next largest total In any one group of accounts was In the redemption redemp-tion lun.is, against which warrant! were Issued during the month totaling 2SS,411 61. This was part of u payment pay-ment of 300,00o for bonda Issued by the state in 1900 and fulling due this month. During the month the state land boar.) loaned out at Interest only 114,-419.62. 114,-419.62. the chief reason being that the land board has not much mure than that amount to loan, practically ad of the several million dollars of lunds under its control being already out at Interest. Interest funds under the control of the Btate land board disbursed dis-bursed during July reach a total of 1S,16.6, which went chiefly to the ijayurcnt of old resroir lund war-i war-i u 1 1 1 s. Tho University of Utah, the Utah Agilcullural college and the Brunch Agricultural college drew warrunts fiom the state totaling 160,007 12. From the fcdeial vocational fund, contributed con-tributed by the United State government, govern-ment, 111,770.09 was distributed, partly part-ly among the school districts and partly part-ly to employes in the Btate school offices. of-fices. The state district school fund paid out $1,640.49 In July und the state high si hool fund $731. 43 II cost 1916.84 to administer the state motor vehicle registration lund. The fish and game commissioner drew requisitions for Warrants totaling $5307.27 There v.s paid from the elate bounty fund $ 1090 31. |