Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-03-31 | Page 19 | Four Clerks Lose Jobs

FOUR CLERKS LOSE JOBS Land Board Lacks Funds to Retain Em Owing to a lack of ot funds for Cor the state land hand board the Office force will be cut practically in two to by dropping four clerks who have been b en employed recently and who have haxe had their hands bands full ull with the increased business of the office Secre Secretary Secretary tary tan Will vm H Farnsworth announced yes yesterday yesterday yesterday that J A Edwards auditor will leave today and anti that Miss Myrtle Olson Miss Barbara Swan and William Pardoe all aU clerks would also leave leao The appropriation for the land board was practically exhausted last year and Secretary Farnsworth wanted to run on ona a Ii deficit but this was not allowed by the state board of examiners who have taken takena a stand against creating deficits In any of the departments Mr lIr Edwards for formerly formerly merly state auditor has been busy audit auditIng auditIng auditing Ing the tile books of the land board for about a year The books have been brought up to the present year In several of the branches but later It will be necessary to employ an auditor