| Show athey hey worked too cheap gaitor editor Ci capper cipper in your yom issue of dec gah I 1 read an article on one sided economy which I 1 considered a step in ri right lit direction I 1 decry the action teti oll of the count county court much as tax payer at the same time I 1 attach equal blame to the men who were so ao foolish and as to start to work at eliut rate of wages and think they tey were very much to blame for so doing I 1 RM am surprised that such men can be found who have no more respect for themselves than to go ail and work a team for 2 per day when they knew very well that the lowest ordinary ordina rj price was 3 I 1 look upon such men with titter contempt just as mean do some men from bountiful act when taking their fruit and vegetables to salt lake market larket Il in the same they are willing to accept almost any ally kind of an offer eri much below the selling market price ny which they deprive themselves as well as aa others who are compelled to follow suit much against kneir will this kind of doing doina n business is resorted to frequently so much so that when teams have bave returned from market all the money that they have brough back when the picking packing and hauling to market is reckoned up there is very little if anything left for the price 0 of f their market p produce produce I 1 know the county is in a poor state at present and times limes are hard but the way these men as above described have a great bende tende tendency ncy to make things lings worse than they otherwise 0 would be there is much said about wa wages mes iu III the old country being so small I 1 consider if there were a few of the above mentioned ned kind of men there that wages would be still lower than they are now now price on labor for man or beast is is easily brought down when men can be found that will almost for nothing take the offer but it is quite a different thing to get them to their old level again in this connection I 1 would like to say a few words respecting taxation for this county in the first place I 1 advise that the assessor should discriminate as to the value of each persons property or holding holdi ncr 0 previous to assessing the property or holding so that an ail equalization of taxes should be bone by each property owner such has not been the case heretofore to make plain what I 1 mean I 1 will suppose that A B and C have each 40 acres of land with their respective spec tive residences and ces about abou to or nearly equal in value but As 40 acres of land is perhaps one third or one halt half occupied with oak or sage brush bg bell 40 acres is is one fourth growing brush Cs cos 40 acres way may which is an important point to consider another important point of consideration is the number of acres acre S e each ach party parly draws water for irrigation each one has to bis big forty acres of land as the land is of little e utility without the water to irrigate it I 1 consider it not a whit less important import apt that the assessor whoever he be may be should be as particular in ascertaining the number of acres each party has water for or more so than the number of acres of laud land owned by the several respective parties par lies I 1 know that C can make 83 3 to As 81 1 and as matters have existed heretofore As aa tax has b been een as much or about the same as Cs cos which is far from being an equalization of taxation the which should be remedied as soon as convenient the main reason ot of the difference in the above mentioned incomes is not the fault of improper or earless carless in management na gement but it means tile the excess of water one has over tile the ott oilier cr that makes all the difference in their respective spec k tive lye products winch which should be duly considered by the county conaty official which if done would make quite a dist distinction inaction between the in man an iab with a short wat water er turn and the man inan who had the water twice or thrice as long a time by inserting the above you will much oblige n e ons |
