Show EQUALIZING BOARD SEVERAL ABATEMENTS MADS YESTERDAY Walker Property Lowered in Value Over 16000 Mortgages Abated Other Work of the Board Despite the fact that yesterday was stormy the attendance at the board of equalization continued as formerly and plenty ot business was done by the members J R Walker jr appeared before the board in the afternoon to protest against the valuation o the bank corner cor-ner The assessor placedthe realty at SSS20 and the building at 15000 a total of 102830 Mr Walker said that this estimate was too high compare with other property in the vicinity and made quite an extensive talk in favor of a reduction claiming the rate as compared with the Wasatch corner for instance was away too high The board reduced the value of the realty 11SCO and the improvements 55000 making the valuation 5S7500 Mr Walkers trip saved the firm 534293 In taxes however which is a very good days work The important business done yesterday I yester-day was as follows V S Martin mortgage S2224 abated I Same owned by Utah National bank William and Carolina Langford central cen-tral subdivision real estate and personal per-sonal property abated S980 Avery W J Timms 129 T street Improvements Im-provements abated 8100 Isaac Barton SS Oak street abated 400sure sure Olsen 471 West First South real estate abated SSSO John Cushing mortgage 800 Mated Miller Hawley Mortgage company mortgage 14075 stricken offS off-S 11 Hadra 24 Sixth East real estate es-tate and improvements abated 130 James Sampson mortgage 6500 reduced re-duced to 4500 Saul P Berryman mortgage 2400 abated 1000 Sarah Ann Berryman 320 Third East personal property 2400 abate Double assessment Johanna Gregory 624 State personal property abated 500 Taylor Romney Armstrong company com-pany real estate abated 1740 Same abate 1340 real estate and I I6S16 personal property A M Bemley 212 Seventh East real estate abated 700 I 11 Moriah loge A F A M mortgage 3600 abated G W Parks 5 West Second South 580 abated owned by Mt Moriah lodge Harriet E Thomas 557West First North Improvements reduced J300 George W Moyer mortgage 1280 abated Mary Hempstead mortgage 956 abated C O Farnsworth Salt Lake lodge No I 2 I O O F abate 700 |