| Show TAX L VY fOR COUNTY fIXED AT fOUR AND Lf MILLS hILLS The tax levy for county purposes for forthe I the current curon t year wa was fixed yesterday by the county commissioners at 41 4 mills on the dolar dollar taxable of property Last years lev levy wa as at the rte rate of 4 mis mills and the increase of three tenths of a mi mill was a made ne essai by bj the fact that the e county was a r re recently centy Co reed to pay a judgment or of I over t to the civic federation which advanced m money n y to the county I Ito to aid in the prosecution of alleged of a former Republican ad administration ministration and the furher further fact that I i it was deemed prudent anticipating an adverse decIsion by the courts to pro uro I side ide a fund for the payment ol of the re repudiated furniture cOntract Issued by a former malodorous admin I I I Had It not been for these coating the county commissioner commissioners wo would ld I have ben been enabled to make malte this years j ta tax levy as low a as lat last years but butas I as i It is the c administration has levied barely enough to provide for Us its j economical needs an acton action that stands I out in sharp contrast wih with thE the tax levy made bY the present city adm admin The commIssioners r would have hare fixed the county school tax levy yesterday I had SuperIntendent Van Cott been i present to confer wih with the board but there is little doubt that i It wi will be I Imade made on Friday at 4 i mills is the rate I I recommended by the county superintendent and the same rte rate that prevailed last year The t tax levies now fixed 5 mis mills for forstate forstate state purposes and 3 for the state school schol fund nulls for county pur purposes purposes poses 7 for city purposes and 8 iia mis mills for city schools wil will yield a total of over in taxes Te The county school levy wi will Increase the total 27 ad and the district school levies vary varying varying ing In rates wil will swell the aggregate to about a sum in excess of last years ta tax collections by nearly On a total assessed and equalization of there wi will be collected for forthe the state and state ta e schools The county fund will realize Corn Com the city levy on of the sum of will be collected for the thern muni municipal pal needs of Sal Salt Lake and for the city school schools Al All of the rates for general generl purposes are the same as for lat yea year wih with the ex exception epton of the rate whIch is of a ml mill and the city school rte rate which is of ofa ofa a mi mill In the city the total levies ar 28 mis mills a as against 27 for lat last year Out in the country countr the total lev levy Is 16 mis mills exclusive of the district school taxes smal small increase Increase In tx wi will help aument the years revenues the great gin gain comeS from the Itt In Increased creased valuations largely from new property within the ef city of Sal Salt Lake an and d in the county outside the city S I I |
