| Show treasurer ballinger quotes offic official ial figures 1 4 fio gurs A C editor carbon county news will ivill yo you grant me space in your tour paper for a reply to that portion of mr ur article in the advocate Adro cate of oct 15 wherein he devoted considerable sid erable space in his attempt to abow first that tho the routs fouts families aro are related toy br marriage second that as county treasurer and in the performance of my duties as such I 1 employed certain of my relatives atiles as an ami assistants stants third that E T whom he alleges Is ft relative of mine was paid by the county for auditing the reeo books and an d for checking up plat books which mr braffet thinks was worth less than and fourth that tho the price trading co a ja mercantile concern in which I 1 am interested as a tl stockholder during a period of nearly two bears has received from the county it Is xyth alth a yeat great deal of pride and satisfaction that I 1 admit that I 1 am re arted to the fouts family and to the banford sanford family and that as county treasurer I 1 have employed as assistant certain members of the families mentioned they were ere employed by me because they N were ere available skillful competent and crupt trustworthy orthy they were paid for their services ner vices only a reasonable and lawful compensation the aerates ae rages of wages paid to them as somewhat less than per day the cost of running the tr treasurers office in 1912 tinder under my predecessor the cost under my administration in 1913 was a saving of the cost for the present bear ear up to october 1st was nas IS oooo notwithstanding the fact that the assessed valuation atlon of the county in 1912 was only whilst isear th this sear it Is lu and the volume of business has increased in the same ration and notwithstanding the fact that the books of the office at the time tinte I 1 took charge of ot them were nere in a chaotic condition and rc re t quiren much additional work to put them in order the books of the treasurer treasurers office at the present time if it the testimonials or impartial state officers are to bo be believed are in as rood good condition as any in the state Pao favorable rable comments concerning the I 1 condition of the treasurers books and the sem service fee rendered to the taxpayers r by the treasurers office have hae been made by prominent of the coal and railroad companies of the county all this Is mentioned simply to show that I 1 made no mistake in employ ins my relatives as assistants now regarding mr ri T and his work vork in making present ownership plats mr Is not related to me it any way whatever I 1 f first met him in iho early part of last year when we were introduced by mr L G kelly the state auditor who informed me that his assistant si mr air would audit my books which he did and the state paid him in full later in n the year the state auditor requested the county commIss commissioners loners to cause present ownership plats to be made the state to pay one half of the entire expense which was roughly estimated at about 2300 the request amounted to a demand by the state the need waa very urgent there being no plats in carbon county which were of any value whatever that being the judgment of the state auditor rafter n looking over the situa tion tho the county commissioners sought to havo have the work done as cheaply as possible and to that end I 1 etters vr britten itten to experts in that line in various part parts of tho the and offers were nude made by them to tho the commissioners nors to do the bort ork for sums ranging from 2100 to binally on tho the recommendation of mr kelly tho the state auditor mr fal pat freyman was aas employed emp loed to do the work and ho did it well oil and completed an excellent job to the effilee ap approval proal of the state and the county at a total expense of 1400 something liko like TOO below the lowest estimate and about one fifth of tho the highest highe tit estimate and the state la Is charged with one half of tho the expense and have hae paid it last spring but unfortunately county clerk overlooked looked the matter and was as only reminded of it when hen mr fr braffet charged no me with relationship to paltry Pal freman man rhen ho he arote ithe tho state auditor a requisition for the money and x vaa as informed that hewa he n as too late the fund ivas exhausted bausted ez and nothing could bo be done until the legislature replenished the fund I 1 have letters etters from the state auditor which confirm all the fors forcy going and I 1 will be pleased to show mem to anyone interested and right liero here I 1 want to testify my regard to mr air E T Bal freyman and commend him to tho voters oters of utah county where he 1 candidate for county treasurer on ho the republican ticket if he were a relative of mine I 1 bould bo be very ery proud to publish th the 0 fact I 1 do not bell belleve belle ce ve that mr braffet knows knois the importance the object and purpose or has any idea ot of the labor and material necessary tc to make present Oa plats for a I 1 county because if ho he nad known ho he would hardly hae haie made the preposterous statement he did passing to the matter of the price trading co of aich I 1 am a holder from january 6 1913 to the present nearly two lears barg the price trading co hae haw received from carbon county for coal and other merchandise of the I amount wag was for pounds of I 1 coal 90 of the mount rno mas for I 1 poor orders issued by the commas for merchandise 49 of I 1 the amount as for supplies for county surveyor wetzel in making the C irbon wasatch county boundary line sur survey ey and one half of this amount was nas refunded to carbon county by wasatch county so this item should be of the amount was for sundry items puri chased by the jailer and the janitor I 1 for the jail and courthouse court bouse coal v as I 1 ordered of the brict trading co in 1 january 1913 because no other dealer would N f furnish it and ana take in payment ament carbon county warrants which ft ore ere only worth morth or considered by the dealers to be orth about 65 cents on tho the dollar but the price trading co had a hunch that under the progressive gres sive administration of county affairs the warrants 1 abrar ta would u boon be worth par and it furnished the coal ai at per ton and has continued to do so up lip to the present the prices charged for merchandise were no more than wore were charged to individuals individual and no more than other mercantile ale institutions would mould have charged all bills of the price trading co aro are on file ie in the county cerks office and nd mr fred sanford who la Is manager of the store tells roe me that he challenges inspection spec tion of the same dispassionately I 1 have hae endeavored to correct any false impressions which 5 3 our readers may ba have a formed by reason of the article mentioned I 1 decline to indulge in tin recriminations or discuss mr bamily political or otherwise yours tours truly A BALLIN ballinger BAL LINGEn GERV |
