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Show I: RIRIE SHOWS SALARIES PAID STATE EMPLOYES SALT LAKE, May 24. Jay Hooves, secretary of the budget board of South Dakota, "has inquired of Joseph Ririe, I state auditor, regarding salaries of state employes. Mr. Rlrle's reply shows that tho governor gov-ernor of Utah receives ?6000, the five justices of the supreme court, $5000 each per annum, and the attorney general gen-eral and secretary of state, ?4500 each. All other state officers receive -1000 and under, with the exception of some ' of the heads of institutions. The president pres-ident of the University of Utah, for example, ex-ample, receives 500 a month. In that institution, Mr. Riric's letter shows, as follows, as indicated by the March payroll: President, $500; four professors, each, $300; two professors, each $290; fifteen professors, each $250 ; m seven professors each $220; fifteen others receive re-ceive an average salary of $1S5; eleven others receive an average salary of $166; ten others receive a salary of 1 150; twenty-seven other teachers and I assistants receive $125; thirty-eight other teachers and assistants receive $100; sixty other assistants and miscellaneous mis-cellaneous employes receive $75. Mr. "Ririe adds: v "The salaries received by employes at the University of Utah are approximately approx-imately an average of the amount received re-ceived by instructors at the agricultural agricultur-al college and other state Institutions," Concerning other state offcials than those already noted, Mr. Rlrio shows ! that the state treasurer receives $3000 a year, the auditor $3500, and the state I superintendent of public instruction $4000. i The thirteen district judges in the state receive $40u0 each, as do each of the following: Four members of the I state board of equalization, the state i engineer, the secretary of the state h board of health, the three members of 1 1 the public utilities commission and the 1 three members of tho stat'e industrial I commission-. The members of the state board of i land commissioners receive each $2900. "The deputies in each of the elective i state officials' offices," says the letter, j "receive an average salary of $225 a I month; clerks and stenographers are J paid salaries ranging from $90 to $175 ' a month." ij Mr. Ririe concludes: ' "I take pleasure in furnishing you , this information, as by co-operation along this linq the various states can render a distinct public service in the matter of proper adjustment of salaries." sal-aries." oo |