Salt Lake Herald | 1899-06-16 | Page 6 | After the Smelting Trust

I AffR THE SMELTING TRUST MILLION DOLLARS INCREASE FOR TAXES PROPOSE County Equalization Board Cites the Gennania Hanauer and Mingo Smelters to Show Cause NC Because of the death of Commissioner Armstrong a member of the board the county board of equalization adjourned from yesterday morning until this morning However before adjournment County Auditor Wood was directed to serve notices upon the smelting trust representatives in this city tj shon cause next Wednesday why the asses bors valuations of improvenifiits and personal property at the Genrania Hanauer and Pennsylvania smelters should not be Increased to amounts approximating ap-proximating the fair cash value of the properties which were recently taken in by the trust at handsome figures One citation directs T R Jones to show cause why the Germaniu smelters smel-ters personal property and improvements improve-ments should not be raised in value from 90000 to 500000 and another was served on A Hanauer proposing to increase in-crease the taxing basis of the personality person-ality and improvements at the Hanauer smelter from 30000 to 500000 Two other citations on T R Jones and F H Officer require cause to be shown next ednesday afternoon why the yam ue of the Pennsylvania or Mingo smelters smel-ters personal property and improvements improve-ments should not be 200000 instead of 73080 for taxation purposes