Show TAXES AND VALUATION VAL FOR FOK SCHOOL PURPOSES below is given the assessed valuation per school child and the local levy for school purposes of each of the 40 school districts of the state whether or not a school district can finance its schools properly depends largely upon its relative position in these two calums by inspecting the lists it will be seen that the morgan and summit districts stand at the very top in amount of assessed property behind each school child this means that as far as wealth or ability to pay are concerned these districts are in a most favorable position hence a relatively low levy in taxes is necessary to raise the money needed valuation is riep to the large amounts of corporate property such as rail roads etc assessed within their borders au turning fh u ng to the tax rate imposed for school I 1 purposes the opposite is true the richer districts are near the bottom with the low rates and the poor districts near the top with the high rates note the positions of the city districts such as provo logan ogden and salt lake city these cities bout boast of the finest buildings and best beat schools yet from the standpoint of ability to pay arp ale among the poor ditrichs surely our local districts should afford as good educational cat ional facilities as they the figures are taken from the annual report of the state dept of education assessed valuation per sc 11 0 0 1 child 1934 north summit morgan grand box elder tooele thoele south summit juao juab salt lake city weber rich granite carbon jordon iron nebo davis beaver cache millard ogden city murray wasatch P park a r C city I 1 ty mills T gintic tintic 1 bic emery alpine sevier south sanpete daggett north sanpete piute diute provo city kane logan city uintah duchesse Duc Dua hense bense san juan washington garfield wayne average for state taxes forbear tor year ending june 30 1935 local school tax in mills total district tax rate emery mills i |