Show FRACTIONS salt lake city an aug ath 1896 to the board of commissioners arid and county auditor of davis county farmington utah litah you are hereby notified that the state slate hoard board ol of equal leation of utah proposes to increase the be assessed valuation of all real estate in your county or the purposes of state stale taxation for tile llie year of 1896 by adding t thereto the sum of the same being an increase crease of twenty five live per cent of the assessed valuation of the real estate as assessed by the county asses assessor sor as the same appears on the assessment roll of your county on this date the board will consider all objections which may be made to such increase at its office in salt lake city ou on or before august 1896 by order of tide the board J J thomas secretary farmington 0 august bolh 1896 after the above notice had bad been received the commissioners met as a committee ant and decided to go before the board on tuesday aug bilth 1890 1896 and invite a number of leading men of this county to accompany them and resist such raise beill being m made the commissioners also prepared the following statement for or presentation to the me board farmington davis davicco Dav iaCo co utah aug logli 1896 to the lion ilon state skateboard board ot of equalization iza zat tion lon salt sail lake city utah gentlemen we the undersigned undersigner under signed commissioners of davis co utah hereby protest against tile the increase of the hie valuation of the real estate of said county conn as a 9 proposed I 1 by y you y aoi tor the 10 lo following fr wit I 1 first we ire are of the opinion that the land arid is assessed now at the full cash valuation for agriculture ta as shown by the following cres acres of average arming lan land d in north end of county anty valued at 2000 produces annually bushels of wheat valued at cost of plowing seeding and harvesting bar vesting leaving a balales of or a dollar an acre or five per of its assessed ae I 1 value we one hundred acres of lucern land assessed at produces tons of hay bay at 3 per ton equals cost of irrigating 0 cut ting t etc qa 2 per ton or leaving a balance of profit or 2 per tere acre or 4 per cen cent t vile alne hundred acres of vegetable P gardening I 1 i land valued at produces sagoo costs of plowing cultivating 0 harvesting inar marketing etc 65 per acre or a loss of so 65 per acre or total loss of or 44 per cent loss which would have to be deducted from owners time second we are arc of the opinion that tile hie laud land in dails day 1 county is its as a qs as high or higher than the same civiss of lauds in other counties the cultivated lands in davis county lie in a narrow strip between the lie lake and the mountain and there abero is a wry very small proportion that bat could be classed as first class laud land the lauds lands bordering M the lie lake being impregnated with mineral is good for nothing except pasture arid and very poor pasture land at that while the land skirting the mountain is except in stina small 11 patches valueless and without water ver which is ia tile condition prevailing a N a unproductive the unprecedented low lrich arice of fir arnita vegetables hay bay and grain makes taxes a burden for the farmers to bear under the present valuations anti and should iolI sl a raise be made there will pe be a i great many that cannot meet the pressure and their property wilt will necessarily X go 2 0 to tax tale sale which adds another burdea it II is a well known fact that th after tile the farmer the costi ot of farming fanning uta his crops croc and allows a reasonable kvame rage 0 tot for himself he has I 1 aa az as rent alfrom his cairl oon consequently if i t lie 11 e price of his und daml is ig raised for the purpose of taxation it ls is ly placing a tax lax on labor trusting you will not make perm a nent the raise contemplated we are yours respectfully win N nalder commissioners C IV rockwood I 1 ot of philander hatch dadsis Cont conkity conaty ity NEWS deputy clerk thomas issued marriage licenses to james L allen alien and miss s 11 II C Ingle bratsen of salt lake and august carlson and caroline Th The eblom blow both of ogden on friday last A 13 combs came down clown from snake c river a short time ugo ago sick and has been at st marys ho aspinal hospital under the llie doctors doctor s care lie ile was afflicted with appendicitis and for several days the doctors feared an operation would lave have to be performed eds however it is believed he be is now out of danger A call was made at the home of mrs E V F rose kosc by a clipper reporter on the first of the week to see her sill silk industry but found that tile worms had bad already finished their days upon earth and only the cocoons and eggs remained to show what lad had been accomplished in the sericulture culture line in farmington this season two medium sized rooms of the house were set apart for these creatures which were placed upon n table like shelves they made about one hundred pounds of cocoons chions which appeared to be about equal to six bushels which have been sold other years for as much as 82 62 a pound however this year a bounty of twenty five cents a pound will be added she also has one and a quarter pounds of eggs which are arc valued at 63 an all bunze JL it requires from six to ellit eight el 0 lit weeks for the silk worm to reach ma matulay lurly turAy wind the cocoon lay its eggs a and die considerable labor is required to take care of these profitable creatures as they have to be fed live five times a day besides needing other attention nevertheless it is a very ve ry pleasant occupation and one that might busy a great many of our young people the lady deserves great credit for launching out in this worthy enterprise and it is to lo be hoped others in ic our county will follow her example |