Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-03-02 | Page 12 | Weber County Class Reduced

WEBER COUNTY 0 LASS Fi ED SJ G ED House CommiUee Makes New Classification Putting It in Third Place. MEANS MORE PAY FOR SALT LAKE CO. OFFICERS Population Controls Instead of Valuation; Few Changes in Salaries Made. A new classification of counties, which will mean an Increase in salaries for Salt Lake county officials, was recommended by the committee on salaries and fees In tho lower house "Wednesday mornlns. The new classification of the counties Is nut do from a standpoint of population instead of on the assessed value of properly, as heretofore. In 1300 Salt I..akc county had a population popula-tion of 77.725 with an assessed valuation of property at $:iS.SGS,007. in 1010 a population pop-ulation of 131.-I2G was shown, with an assessed as-sessed valuation of property nmoilnllng to S7G.ICo.3o5. showing remarkable growth. The recommendations for the changes In classification wcro mudo in house bill J.ir.. a substitute for house bill 2.1. introduced intro-duced early In the session, by the judl-clurv judl-clurv committee at the request of tho Sheriffs' association. The original measure meas-ure provided a number of changes In the salaries or county officials with tho largest larg-est increase for sheriffs. It was referred to Hie salaries and fees committee and tho bill Introduced yesterday was the result. re-sult. Salt Lake county remains In tho first class In the new classification, but both Weber and Cache county are removed from tho second class, Weber going Into the third and Cache Into the fourth class. Utah is the only county of thu second class. Under the present law there are only fifteen classes of counties, while in the proposed law there aro twenty-seven, classified as stated, on population. New Classification. Following Is tho new classification of the counties, with the population upon which the classification Is based: Class. County. Population. 1 Salt Lake 1SU26 2 Utah :i7.92 :t Weber , 35.179 1 Cache 23.0G2 .1 Sanpete .. 16,702 (T llox Elder 13.S91 7 Juab 10.702 S Davis 10.1!' 1 !) Sevier 9,775 Hi Wasatch S.M20 11 Carbon S.G21 12 .Summit S.200 in Tooele ' 7.92 i II Uintah '. 7,050 IS Emory fi.7i0 lfl MillYird 6.11S 17 Washington 5.12X IS ttcuver 4.717 19 Iron 3.033 20 Garfield 3.060 21 Morgan 2,467 22 San Juan 2,377 23 Itloh v 1.SS3 24 Wayne 1,749 25 Piute 1,734 26 Kane 1.652 27 Grand , 1,95 Changes in Salaries. The following tabic shows the proposed increases in the salaries of officials, (hose being tho only changes made: Present. Proposed Salt Lako county Max. Max. Commissioners (each).. ?1, 500 52,000 Sheriff 3.000 1.000 Assessor 1.S00 2,100 Clerk 2.100 3,200 Recorder 2.000 2.600 Treasurer 2.500 , 3,000 Attorney 2,500 3.300 Surveyor 1.200 2.000 Auditor 1.S00 2,400 Superintendent 1,600. .... San Juan countv Commissioner (each).. 100 15(1 Piute county Commissioners (each).. IflO 150 Clerk S00' 200 Attorney 500 GOO Wayne county Commissioners (each).. 100 150 Tooele county Commissioners (each).. 150 500 Sheriff 1,300 1,500 Assessor 800 900 Clerk 1,300 1,100 Recorder 1,000 1,200 Davis county Assessor . SOU 900 Supt. of schools 1.000 1,200 Surveyor 350 100 Emery county Clerk , 1.000 1.200 Recorder 1,000 1,200 Attorney S00 1.000 Surveyor 350 200 Kane county Commissioners (each).. 100 150 Sheriff 750 , S00 Surveyor 350 300