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Show PROTESTS NUMEROUS AGAINST ROAD TAX Citizens Pay Special Assessment Under Protest and Will Probably Bring Suit. Protests against the special tax levied this year for the lntcrcounty highway east and- west through Halt Lake county aro being received dally by the county cotnmlHSlonero and the county attorney. Thousands of dollars are being paid Inlo the county treasury under protest and serious litigation la apt to result from the lew. If tho protectants should win. tho highway will not oe ouiu next year, at least. Under tho law the stato may make an additional levy on abutting propory for road building purposes and tho state appropriates ap-propriates as much na tho county thus ralsca. This fund was to go toward tho conntruclion next year of a highway from the Summit county line at the head of Parley's canyon to tho Tooele county lino west "of Garfield. Tho principal protefltanta against the special lax aro the big mining companies compa-nies and tho railroad companies affected. Somo smaller property owners also have entered protest and it is expected tho general dissatisfaction will crystallize in a court action apnlnst the county to recover re-cover the amounts paid. |