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Show INCREASE LEVIES ON BOX ELDER PROPERTY BRIGHAM CITY, April 36. An increase in-crease of the average assessment of Boxclder arm lands to fifty per cent above that of a year ag6, is the result of a conference with thecounty commissioners com-missioners and the 3tate board of equalization, said Lorenzo Pelt, county assessor yesterday. A classification committee is now at work revising the lists and getting all lands properly listed. list-ed. Farm lands around Bingham and south to the county line are said to be assessed about 75 per cent of their full value at present, and around about Bear River valley farm, lands are at present assessed at only 53 per cent of their value. Farmers are registering register-ing objection to the Increased valua tlon but the state board churns that It is necessary in order to raise sufficient suf-ficient funds to operate the business of thestate. . 1 |