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Show i DGDEN CONSIDERING j J0IJK1E: Study Agreement Through j Which Salt Lake City j ! and County Built. Spe-'ial to The Tribune. OODK.V, De:. IS. That the erection of a Joint illy and county building is one of the civi proUems to considered the coining year was indicated today when tho "Weber county commissioners received a copy of the agreement under which a Joint structure was created by Salt Lake City and Salt Lake county. Members of the present boy i-il of county commission-ci-m senr. for a :opy of t lie agreement sev-0P sev-0P eral Wf'k h at;o and today It was ordered filed by the county clerk for future ref-crence. ref-crence. I D. If. EnsiKTi and Martin P. Brown, county commisifloiiers-elcot, atiernletl today's to-day's meeting of the board. They agreed witli iloioni Nkeen, the hold-over rom- rnisHloner, that the proposed plan uf erect ing a joint building is une which should j bo, worked out no that the structure j could be completed before the year ! of the proposed railroad exposition. They al.so ppoke in favor of a business block, with a principal view to efficiency rather tha.ii ornamentation. I'ndor the plan as shown by the agreement received today, tSalt Lake City furnished the site and the cost of tho building was then divided equally between the city and Sail Lake county. So far as the plan has been discussed dis-cussed here, there seems to be an inclination incli-nation on the part of the city authorities tn furnish the site and allow the count y to appiinio the lung end of the cost on the building. This view, however, has never been advanced by the present city officials. of-ficials. Sheriff T. A . DeVlne today requested oojirlrmal Inn of the appointment of George JK Folkman ;is deputy sheriff to 1111 the vacancy caused by the resignation of J. J,. Jfohsnn. It was denied un the grounds that the sheriff's of lice can be operated short-handed until the new administration administra-tion takes over affairs on January 1, 1!M7. The board authorized the payrolls and all chums against the county, the palarles payable next Saturday, in order to give the county clerk and auditor an opportunity to close the books for turning over the office to his successor on January Jan-uary 1, 1917. |