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Show County Expenses For Past Eleven Months Reported Utah county wpent $63,478.78 for November operations, bringing bring-ing total expenditures for the first 11 months of 1950 to $720,-307.83, $720,-307.83, a report released by Karl H. Bennett, county auditor, revealed. re-vealed. The amount was far above the $013,605.09 spent during the corresponding cor-responding period In 1919, but apparently was well within the budget, with $833,193.33 appropriated appro-priated for the year's operations. Accounting for $30,000 of the Increase was that amount spent from the new recreational fund for construction of roads into scenic and recreational areas mainly the Alpine scenic loop. A sizable portion of the increase in-crease In 1950 over the 1949 spending has come in departments depart-ments operating from the county general fund, the report disclosed. Total general fund spending for the 11 months was $3-16,588.85, compared with $296,672.95 to Dec. 1 In 1949. More than $15,000 of this increase in-crease came in the elections budget. bud-get. There was no election in 194 9. Another substantial item in this year's spending was $13,-874.4 $13,-874.4 1 for city and county building build-ing improvements, with none spent in this department last year. A jump in the civil court spending spend-ing from $3205.83 to $9362.67 was noted, and several other departments depart-ments also reported increases. The most substantial decrease noted in general fund spending was in the treasurer's office, where salaries and expense dropped drop-ped from $18,630.58 in the first 11 months of 1919 to $16,441.47 for the same period this year. Disbursements in the highways fund climbed from $187,638.41 in the 11-month period in 1949 to $205,551.32 this year. This included: in-cluded: Labor, $59,620.07; materials, mater-ials, $15,053.02; truck repairs, gas and oil, $23,059.80; tractor repairs, re-pairs, $3577.21; sweeper and grader, gra-der, $5088.64; crusher, $1189.41; contract work, $197.50; rental equipment, $1757; shop expense, $8710.22; bridge material, $885.10; new equipment, $25,578.93; crane and shovel repairs, $1149.42; miscellaneous, mis-cellaneous, $5706.11; Class B roads, $10,472.32; snow removal, $10. Spending in other county funds included: Exhibition and advertising, $14,-604.63, $14,-604.63, compared with $16,252.73 last year; memorial fund, $2,000, compared with $13,750 last year; poor and indigent fund, $33,916.-33, $33,916.-33, compared with $38,075.09 last year; recreational fund, $30,000, none last year; infirmary fund, $71,209.64, compared with $58,-789.20 $58,-789.20 last year; and weed expense, ex-pense, $16,427.67, compared with $12,517.31 last year. |