Show so FREE ur AT DEBT The Smallest Tax Rte of any City i the United States NATUBAL GAS I ABUNDANCE Some Advantages of Sale Lake that are Little Known and Seldom Heralded Abroad There is no city in the United States of 50000 that is as free of indebtedness a the city of Salt Lake The Mormon rule which has been derided rided and degraded by sensational adventurers adven-turers left this city with money in the treasury and a municipal tax rate of abput ve mills per annum Parties intending to place their money where taxes are light and where there is every probility that no wild schemes of reckless extravagance wi never be permitted will do well to compare the city of comparatively indebtedness debtedness with other places where every dollar invested must pay out nearly one half of its annual earnings for municipal county and state taxes The following is a list of the taxes levied by some of the cities of the country with a population of over forty thousand people together with their in ebtedness per capita Compare our position as to taxation public debt per capita and wealth per capita as shown by the assessed valua tion We will make comparison with both > California and eastern cities San DiegoTax rate per 00 5125 debt per capita 1537 wealth per capita 1125 Los Angeles has no sewer system yetTax rate SLID debt SOrto wealth SS33 San JoseTax rate 225 debt 17 wealth 90 Sacramento Tax rate 2 debt 3333 wealth 456 Now look at eastern cities Council Bluffs Tax rate 582 debt 422 wealth 2 Leaven worthTax rat 5 debt S2SU3 wealth GG6 Bloomington 111Tax rate L50 debt 850 wealth 541 Salem MassTax rate S175 debt 2386 wealth 898 Chelsea MassTax rate S17S debt 28 wealth 674 Davenport laTax rate 350 debt 916 wealth 600 New Bedford 1assTax rate 171 debt 3258 wealth 865 East Saginaw Mich Tax rate 233 debt 1457 wealth 37o Bay City MichTax rate 3 debt 1452 wealth 967 Augusta MeTax rate 230 debt 2827 wealth 4S9 Rockford 111Tax rate 350 debt 892 wealth O Wichita Kan Tax rate 250 debt 1112 wealth S75 These are all cities of from 20000 t 40000 inhabitant inhab-itant Most of them are old and economical economi-cal eastern towns where they are supposed to have pot tax rates down to the lowest point |