Show care of paupers haupers Pau pers utah county ought to have a poor house located on some come good farm in in the valley the number of persons asking for alms now and the amount spent in their support seems to warrant randsome some such arrangement san pete county much smaller than utah has a well equipped poor house and farm and they are maintained at a profit to the county in conversation with one of the commissioners of that county a few days ago he told us there was a great saving to Sau pete in the pauper lund jund since the establishment lish ment of the poor house the indigent could be cared for much more economically at the home than separately as before and it was known that none but the needy were draw drawing ing sup port sometimes families through one helpless s person seek county aid to help all the farm did away with all such impositions in other cases grownup grown up children did not feel ashamed to have their aged parents draw support from the county privately but their pride was touched when it cameto came to sending them to the poor housego hou house seso the number of paupers haupers dependant on the county was in that way decreased finally the commissioners found the farm at a great convenience veni ence to the county officers when a hundred or more are drawing separate support their various complaints have to be heard and perhaps their private circumstances closely investigated all of which take time andare and are an additional expense to the county about the same conditions exist in this county as those related by the sanpete commissioner only here they are more extended because the county is greater the pauper fund is also increasing every year as a glanceau glan glance ceat at the financial statements clearly prove A few years ago only between two and three thousand dollars were expended on poor and indigent now the amount will reach between four and five thousand san d dollars the number dr drawing support is not reported and we have no means at hand of determining the number but commissioner peery said eaid j jokingly during the campaign that he had a hundred and fifty votes certain in the number drawing support through him the other two com may each have almost an equal number of course only a small emall per cent of f the persons aided ma may y be fit subjects for a poor house but there are certainly enough to warrant quipping a house and placing it under the control of a suitable superintendent in aside aide from our home borne paupers haupers pau pers there are not a few transients that apply for shelter they are mainly sick eick tramps not a few have been given shelter at the county jail recently which is really not a fit place to caze care for such persons persona if the county had a poor house they could rest a few days until sufficiently recuperated to travel and through the means of such a home money could be saved to he taxpayers tax payers while it would cost something eom bom ething to start the home it would afterwards prove very economical someday some day the county will have to support such an establishment and land will likely never be cheaper in this county than it is now the amount paid out in one year to support the indigent of utah county could purchase a good farm with buildings suitable to start the home when once started the paupers haupers could in a large measure become self sup aup porting |