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Show 'salt LAKE COUNTY LOSS. Salt Lake county is proceeding to demand the payment of $200,000 from 'fie American Surety company as part jof the loss incurred by the county 'treasurer when the National City bank failed. At tho time of the failure county funds totaling $640,000 were on deposit. de-posit. Since then $225 000 has been paid on surety bond and $IT3,000 on a 20 per cent dividend, leaving over $300,000 as a shortage. Tho county treasurer, when he deposited de-posited the large sums with the National Na-tional City, accepted as security bond in the Crystal Lakes Farm company to the amount of ?3Go,000 The county attorney, In reporting on the bonds, declares they are without market value Either there has been a tremendous tre-mendous deflation in values or the inflation in-flation was extreme when the bond3 were passed upon. With few exceptions, tho finances of the counties and cities of Utah have been free from looses through careless handling of funds |