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Show MORE WASTE OF I PUBLICS MONEY 1 Local Publication Is Paid Double H Price For Work Over Last fl Year ".Mall Order" Deal. At n inectinir of the Ixmrd of county comml8loncrfl, held Octo jH bcr 3, 1915, CommiHAioncr Albert Itryner offered tho rcnolutlon H printed below conccmliiK tho publication of tho delinquent tux lint H of Cnrbon county for the yenr 1915. E. S. Horsley, tho clerk of JH tho board, wns buny in dintrict court nt thnt timo in ncasion, nnd A. H UnlliiiKor, county treasurer, acted n the cleik in Horaley'fl stead, H so Tho Sun is informed by County Clerk Horslty. Tho resolution H was seconded by Commissioner Hnmilton nnd the records show it H was carried unanimously. The resolution rends: H He It Resolved, That the NcwH-Athocate Publishing company H be and arc hereby awarded the contract to publish the delinquent H lax list of 191f, according to law, in the NcvvH-Advocatc for the . H term nnd within the time required by law, for which the said cor- Brc poration nluill be paid at the rate of twenty-five cenlH for each IHbI property description or duplicate tax ntntcment. Thnt the tie BH linquent list Hhall consist of duplicate tax statement furnished (o Ijjjiifl the said publishing company by the county treasurer, which tstatc- fH ments shall be furnished by the county treasurer to the said pub IH lishing company on the 5th d y of December, 1915. iH At the completion of the publication of tho 1915 list, tho News- iH Advocate rendered Carlton county nn invoice for tho work amount- H ing to KOim HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE DOLLARS ($421.25) ! AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS, which hIiows thnt there wore nc- M cording to the calculations of the Ncws-Advocato SIXTEEN HUN- IH DUED (1085) AND EIGHTY-FIVE delinquents advertised. Last IH year the Cnrbon County News (now the News-Advocntc) pub- H lished tho delinquent tax list (for 1914) nt TWELVE AND ONE- QH HALF (121.) CENTS a description nnd received thciofor TWO H HUNDRED EIGHTY-ONE ($281.35) DOLLARS AND THIRTY- IH FIVE CENTS. Inst year's dcliiuiucnt list wns much Inrger than H this year (1915). IH The typesetting and tho printing of Inst ycar'fl delinquent tax H list wns done hero in Price by tho Eastern Utah Advocate. THIS H YEAR ALL THE TYPESETTING AND PRINTING OF THE IH DELINQUENT LIST WAS "FARMED OUT" AT SALT LAKE CITY. Not a dollar for the actual work, except tho mailing out IH of tho News-Advocntc, went to printers, pressmen or others who fl spend their enrniiigs with Price merchants or who pny taxes in HH Cnrbon county. It was "a mall order" proposition, puro nnd situ- IQ pie. Of course tho Ncws-Advocato mndc n profit, but how much IH of tho FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE DOLLARS AND B TWENTY-FIVE CENTS found its way to the business channels IH of this community? Sl Why the News-Advocntc should be paid TWENTY-FIVE iH CENTS n description this year (1915) as against TWELVE AND IH ONE-HALF CENTS for the name work last year (191 1) Is a mat- IH tcr for Commissioner Hryner nnd the two other members of the BBK board to explain. Perhaps they will get by It In the same way they MB have in the mutter of awarding county rond work to Colorado IH contractors In preference to resident taxpayers of Carbon county. IH According to sworn statement, mndo to tho nostoffice depart- liifl ment on tho first of October, 1915, the stockholdcro holding 1 per WM cent or more of tho totnl amount of stock of tho News-Advocate lH were 13. R. McDonald. C. S. Price. Thomns Fouts, J. M. (Tobc) l Whitmore, L. Lowenstein, C. H. Stevenson, Stanley A. Ballingcr IB (son of A. Dnllinger, county treasurer) nnd N. A. Williams. m Thomas Fouts is county nttorney and tho fnther-in-lnw of Stanley B A. Ballingcr, while C. II. Stevenson is chnirmnn of the "bull moose" WM organization of Carbon county. M It will be noticed thnt arrangement (or contract)' for the print- IH ing of this delinquent tax list was entered into October 3, 1915 III two months before tho time for its publication. Why the hurry? fUA If "Bill" Hnmilton, Joe Sharp or Albert Bryner were spending four iSl hundred twenty-ono dollars nnd twenty-five cents of their own IH money, instend of thnt of tho taxnnyers of Carbon county, would IBB they not liavo looked around for prices nt other than one place ? tiBI Or, maybe, Commissioner Bryner was made "the fall guy" by nfl someone nround the court house. SflH |