Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-08-07 | Page 12 | Big Encampment is Financed without Taxing Merchants

mg IS fiNANCED WITHOUT TAXING asking the business businessmen men or of merchants of the city for a a. single cent o of money the great encampment here is to tobe tobe be financed And it is to be financed upon an elaborate scale These facts are the most remarkable recorded in any city where the two forty-two annual encampments have bave been held It has been the cu custom tom in other cities to make the merchants pay for the enormous cost of ot the great gathering gathering gathering gath gath- ering and it has been a strain for them which was was decidedly noticeable At the encampment here the mon money y has been provided by the state the city the county and surrounding counties s. s which has entirely relieved the expense usually placed upon the business men and permitted r them e to expend their It money p in decorating tI and d tOm making rne other t arrangements arrange aringe- r ments ments' for the entertainment According to W. W J. J Halloran chairman of ot the auditing committee of ot the en- en there is money in the bank banka now during a n to o the pay aror arrangements off every ln lne debt debt accumulated e for af accumulated the big ria af af- af fair On hand band at the present time is about which it is s estimated will cover every debt This Thi was appropriated as follows State of Utah City of ot Salt Lake County of ot Sat Salt Lake County of ot Box Elder County of ot Cache County of of Utah ToteS 5 The b budget t tt of t expenses w was made a e out a at they the e first o of t the year when e It was known i about the amount which would be be- be be nee ed for tor the various various' committees Each committee was allowed a certain amount and nd the expenditures were gauged V pon these figures There Fas only one amount that was not for tor and that was a freight I bill on 10 government cots and tents These we wele Wee e sent here for tor emergency use The rhe freight to was overlooked until the consignment con con- con I reached the city with a a. freight bill bAil attached The Tie money for or orthis this was r r by a committee I Mr Hallo ran failed to state how It was raised but the bill has been paid Speaking Speaking Speak Speak- akI ak- I I ing i of thee the financial 1 end of the encampment encampment encamp encamp- I ff 4 g e r si ment Mr said this morning o We hav hawe 3 spared no expense in arranging arranging ar ar- ar- ar I ranging a i a for the e old l soldiers which the they y will remember m b t to their last t days We oVe shave ave not of ot course thrown any of ot the lunds away but put everything that was needed has been peen secured W We Ve have proof at this encampment will wUl be bethe bethe I Ithe the best financed pf pt an any encampment of ot the Grand ever ever held The state and counties a all excepting Weber county county coun coun- ty ro took the entertainment n ft Into their own hands harais ani ari relieved a task from the business m men which c would h have been e a hardship Al All t the financial I t th matters t r are r checked checke up tc tot ta d date te and all lj de debts ts will be paid raId Jn tn full