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Show IT iSE VALUES ID CUTTAX RATE Commercial Club Has Plan to .Enable City lo Issue More Bonds. AS KING IN VESTI G At I ON Want Property Owners lo Bear Cosl of -Paving Street Intersections. I . i At vesterilny 's meeting of the Commercial Com-mercial club committee on public. im-J provemonts ami parks a resolution was passed requesting the president of tho club to appoint a special committee to investigate the feasibilitj' of raising rais-ing the valuation of property in tho city and reducing the tax rate correspondingly corre-spondingly so that the city may isauo more bonds for public, improvement purposcE. A resolution was also passed requesting request-ing the president to name a special committee, to draft a bil' i'or presentation presen-tation during the next, legislature providing pro-viding that. the. paving or street intersections inter-sections shall be accomplished at the expense of property owners instead of the city. Tt was asserted at tho meeting meet-ing that petitions for twenty-five miles of street, paving iu the city could uot be granted because the city had no funds to pave street intersections along the proposed Hues. A bill embracing this object was introduced at the laat legislature, but was defeated. To Protect Mining. The club's committee on mines a.nd mining paseed two resolutions rolating to the patenting of mining claims by the government. Tho government has been advoc.atiug the idea of making it necessary for men to show eoiuo real commercial value in a mine beforo the claim could bo patented. The resolutions resolu-tions set forth that new legislation should be enacted to protect and foster the mining industry of the western states. ' The resolutions will be forwarded to Utah's congressional delegation, and embrace in part the following: That, because of a. recent ruling of the department of the Interior based upon the present lav requiring the existence of mineral of commercial value b.v discover" on each and every claim as a prerequisite to patent, con-rcus con-rcus should enact legislation so as to make It plain that In all cihcs whore mineral claims are situate In a recognized recog-nized mineral district, and the laud embraced therein is of no value tor . its timber, power sltoa, water nourccs or for agricultural purposes, It shall be sufficient In the wise of lode claims to discover mineral -bearing rock In place, or geologically to demonstrate the name without actual discovery of the presence of mineral, and In the case of placer claims in like circumstances, circum-stances, to cither discover mineral or goologlcally to demonstrate without actual discovery the exlstonce of mineral min-eral within tho limits of the claim, and that any discovery or Indication of mineral upon which a reasonably prudont man would bo Justified in expending: ex-pending: bis tlmo and money In the development of such cialm In the hope of ultimate success, should be sufll-ciont sufll-ciont to satisfy the laid department. The membership committco passod favorably upon fifteen new applications applica-tions for membership in tho club and referred tho appHoations to the board of governors for final action. Chairman "Wesloy King announced that there was no question but that the. goal of 1;"00 members by Juno I would be reached. |