Show VALUATION OF I BG B. B C. C TO STAND STA C. C F. F Stillman Favors Reduction Reduction tion of Assessment but Colleagues Colleagues Col Cot ton leagues Are Against Against NO DISCUSSION BY BOARD Complaint Had Been Made by Company That Assessment Was as Campaign Issue Over the opposition of oC C. C F F. F Stillman JM Democratic I al q n the of nf county I U 0 yesterday officially approved the 1015 1916 assessment of the Bingham Garfield Railroad company's property at ot a mile mUe an Increase of or 1000 a mile mie over tho the assessed valuation for tor 1914 Action of the tho board was taken when a recommendation Acton was wa wa submitted b by A A. H H. Parsons county als assessor recommending recommending mending that hl hla hia assessment C for r this thin year be approved as made Mr Ir Parsons Parson presented to the board a brief written recommendation In which ho stated that he would recommend that tho the assessment of or the Bingham Gar Garfield eld railroad be fixed at 2000 a amile tulle mile mie for this year ear I am In favor of or leaving tho the assessment assessment assess assess- ment neat Just where It I Is said Chairman A. A II H Crabbe So am I remarked J J. J H H. Wheeler heeler I think It I is too high a added ded C. C F. F S t ill inn n. n Crabbe and arid Wheeler having expressed th themselves a as In favor of or maintaining the tho assessment at the tho figures made mado by bythe bythe bythe the assessor and anI Stillman having ex expressed ex cx- pressed his opposition th clerk of or the tho board W W. E E. Vigus entered a note on tho the assessment sheet that the assessment assess assess- ment meat as made for tor 1915 1916 by the assessor sessor was approved b by the tho board There Ther was no discussion of cr the tho matter matter matter mat mat- ter In the tho board at all al and the only comment made when then the matter mater was that quoted above brought up was ns Tink Thinks Think Them Too High After the meeting Mr Ir Stillman was asked I If he meant to have havo It un understood understood under under- er- er stood by his hla remark that ho was WR opposed opposed opposed op op- op- op posed to retaining tho the Bingham Garfield Garfield Gar- Gar field assessment at the figure placed b by bythe bytho tho the assessor Yes he hc replied I think tho the as assessment ns- ns Is 18 too high and should be I lowered I think tho the bank aRse assessments mentA I are arc too hl high bight h. h too and that the they all 01 should be lowered lo You may quote me meas meas meas as saying this Further than this Mr Ir Stillman had nothing nothing to say about the matter mater lie He did not give hive his Ideas Ides as a to what he thought the tho assessment on the Bingham Garfield Garfeld should be reduced to to or how much of ot a reduction n he thought should bo be the thc banks He said he hc th thought they theY W were all too C high and d should be lower but that vas was all al he cared to sa say When hen the matter mater of the Bingham I Garfield assessment was taken up b by bytho bytho tho commissioners for tor Informal dl discussion discussion discus discus- cusI cus- cus I sion slon early last last week both Chairman Crabbe and J 1 J. J H H. Wheeler expressed themselves as believing that the tho as assessment as- as r should remain at 31 the tho figure placed d by the Isse assessor sr 1 Mr Stillman at that mat time declared he lie thought thOUGht the asses assessment ment was too high Ho lie did not indicate how hoV much too high he hc thought It was WS but merely informed tho the board that he thought It too high Claimed Campaign Issue luf Last Las Fiday Friday when representatives es of tho the road wore Were before the commission insisting that the assessment be re reduced reduced reduced re- re to tho the figure of last year a mile mie and were declaring that the as asse assessment as- as se of tho the Bingham Garfield ha had been made mado a political issue in th the thelast thelast last campaign Mr Ir Stillman who was wa elected on ott the Democratic platform that was crying for higher assessment of this and other corporations remained silent Yesterday however he ho declared he heI thought the assessment of or the Bingham hom I reduced Garfield wa was too high and should shoud be |