Show TO AUDIT THE BOOKS OF TH THE LAND ELAND BOARD Salt Lake Lak Oct Oel IThe Evening Telegram today loday prints tho ho following For thirteen rears ears there ther has never been art an audit of the books of the tho I state board of oC land commissioners this board handles upwards of a million dollars of the tho public money ann ira As an Instance of the careless and haphazard of the Republican administration In in dealing with Ith the lie I busIness public thIs sta stands ds almost I parallel For the first time since statehood I Ian an audit Is made at l the he In Instance Instance stance of WIllIam H F Farnsworth who began begau his work as secretary of oC the board the first week of the year Mr Ir 1 Farnsworth will not admit that In his few fe months of office he discovered anything which led ed him to that hat an audit was n necessary essary but ho Insisted On having It just the same 1 John A Ell Edwards wards former state mull audi lor or and an accountant of some note Is engaged ou on the work wole Mr Edards declined to sa say anything about the work as far as he has gone nor would he deny den that there were any Irregularities in the account Rumor per that I there here are arc such ties and lint the gross amount is 15 not small Governor William Spry said this morning meriting that the audit was being made at the instance of oC the secretary Mr Ir Farnsworth The books have hae never neer been checked up tilt since said the gover governor nor and Mr Farnsworth would natu naturally rally like to know kilow exactly where he heIs heIs Is at Large have havo been paid lii In as deposits with applications for forstate forstate state ands and ho he wants to Place these exactly I do not an irregularities will ho 10 shown In th lie examination of the hooks or whether there Is more monc money than tire the records wIll show It anything is found the tho public will know of It I Like Cloe Corporation It a rather loose wa way of do doing Ing business not to have art an audit of I such an Important board in so man many years ears governor Yes It Is The fact remains there has been no audIt and wo are arc haing It now Tos I The state land board has bas always been a close corporation and auth few een of the them selves have hae known exactly what was being done The he secret secretaries of the hoards boards have handled the funds as I tho they saw nt fit and each succeeding see sec receipted to his predecessor for or the funds turned over ocr to him It ItIs Itis Is on record that one tried to Induce the bank wIth which bush busl bushness ness was being done to pay Interest to him personally on amounts he was depositing for foi the state but lie he could riot not make that stick and It ended elide with the Who Secretaries Were There have been een uie OC secretarIes of the tho board since statehood These are B Byron roll Groo the first arid and consecutively Vesley K IC Walton John Do Gra Gray Dixon 1 F C CallIste and l the 10 Incumbent H IL Farnsworth The llie secretary is practically the man manager manager ager of the board as lie he transacts most of the business and aud receives all the lie funds lIe Ho Is under leavy bonds and Is 15 responsible for all al moneys haul in lere has at an any time lime been all any limit hint of dishon dishonest dishonesty est esty against arty any of the secretaries there thelo ha have t 1 S wh n clerks clerics and e eten en members of the board have been under suspicion Whose Foot Is Pinched It has always been generally known that the lie al affairs ors of the land hoard board were had badly Iy administered hut hurt that the state has been heen so as to go for fol years ears nit an audit of thu tho books will astound e everyone rono The question naturally suggests It Itself itself self what a hue and cry the lie federal bunch raise II if the lie AmerIcan cIty administration let ono one of Its money mone spending bodies run on for oven ono one year ear without auditing Its ac accounts accounts counts Yet the state land hoard board handles more money mone titan n om an other In state county countr arid elt city arid In iii th thirteen I years has never noer hall hallan an audit of Its accounts Th Tine results of lie tho audit will he awaited with more than usual Interest and Spry has promised that the public shall be Informed of what Mr r Edwards shall discover |