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Show STATE MONEY IN THE BANKS. The publisher of this paper was interviewed by a reporter on the Salt Lake T,ribunc and made to say that he desired only one office of-fice in the state, and that the secretary of the land board The reporter re-porter took the announcement in all seriousness and failed to catch the real intent, j The publisher of this paper docs not want any office, but he aims to call attention to some of the loose methods employed by the officials in the present state government, and particularly the practice prac-tice of holding large sums of money in the banks of Salt Lake without with-out any return jto the state in the form of interest. The stale laud board has had nearly a quarter of a million dollars dol-lars tied up and in its keeping since 1900 and not one dollar in interest in-terest has beeu paid to the state. Five per cent on $200,000 is $10,-000 $10,-000 a year and lor three years it is $30,000. If the state government were conducted as it should be, those funds, and other funds owned by the state, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, would be yielding the state a rich rovonue instead of being made a bait for Hie banks, a source of private gain and a serious menace to honest government and clean politics. |