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Show COST BF TKITii 10 MM SB233 Assessor Comments Upon Change in Order of Assessed As-sessed Valuations. According to the payroll showing of the county assessor's office, the cost of transition in Salt Lake county from the old to the new order of assessed valuations, valua-tions, as imposed by the new tax law, was only 56233, this being the amount of payroll expense for the last six months of the year 19T5 and the first six months of the year 1916 In excess of the same expense account for the corresponding period of the years 1913 and 1914. County Assessor A. H. Parsons expressed ex-pressed gratification yesterday that the added expense incurred by the change in the system had not mounted higher than it did. Concerning the work and consequent cost involved in the transition, Mr. Parsons Par-sons said yesterday: The 1916 assessment was an absolutely abso-lutely new and original structure, requiring re-quiring and receiving the sendees of a large number of expert men and women. For example, two expert real estate appraisers were employed from September, 015, to May, 1916, working out valuations for real estate es-tate in tiie city limits, and two expert ex-pert building contractors were employed em-ployed for about the same time appraising ap-praising buildings in the business district, dis-trict, warehouses, manufacturing plants and apartment houses, anil assisting as-sisting deputies less experienced in the work of appraising in the city generally. There are 400 miles of streets in Salt Lake City, according to the city engineer, and, in addition. nearly every block has from one to five courts or lanes, and it required the services of two competent women for about eight months to work out tiie necessary computations of individual parcels of real estate after the value per foot had been determined. All the outlying acreage was carefully care-fully inspected, and in some cases was gone over the second or third time before final figures were placed. In the country districts a farm lands were reclassified and carefully appraised ap-praised the value of farm Improvements Improve-ments estimated and personal piop-erty piop-erty inspected and valued. Field deputies dep-uties who worked the same districts In 3915 and U'j found that it took about twice the time to go over a given territory in 1916 as in 1915. Dunn? the sessions of the board of equalization in May and June it was found necessary to employ (besides tiie regular office force) four additional addi-tional experts to investigate complaints. |