Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-05-19 | Page 12 | Big Increase Shown in Millard County

BIG INCREASE SKOl IN MILLARD COUNTY Valuation This Year Is $7,-890,431, $7,-890,431, Compared With $2,235,001 Last Year. Millard county has shown a greater increase in the assessed valuation than any count- yet reported to the state board of equalization, and all the counties coun-ties are now in with the exception of Carbon and Wasatch counties. The total assessed valuation o? Millard county for this year is $7, s:Hi,-i si . list year it was S'J.i'j.oiM. The valuation is subdivided, with the comparison with last year, as follows: ' Ileal estate. $4.340.5?6: lust year. $V72,-filjS; $V72,-filjS; improvements, SVl-S.K.i.v. last yOHi $.72,130; livestock, J:in7, :1TS; last year, $iii5,"t0; personal property, $724,1 12 ; last year, $.iS4.;;. liiscovery was made this year t ha t In Millard county land in excels of u.Hi0 acres has been escaping taxation for a J number of years. Tlie county assessor was Instructed to include the land In this year's assessment and Stale Auditor I..; G. Kelly got from Attorney General A. II. Barnes an opinion that back taxes again-tj tins land could be collected as a penalty for non-payment. Salt l-ake couty's assessment valuation, valua-tion, epitomized In The Tribune yesterday morning, was filed yesterday with the board of equalization. Tlie board has received re-ceived assura nces from t lie Carbon a nd Wasatch assessors that their totals will be in before the end of the week. Returns from the counties did not measure mea-sure up to tlie expectations of the board of equalization, which had looked for an assessed valuation between two and three 1 mies as g,reat under the present f nll-valuatlon nll-valuatlon law, as compared Willi last year under the old law. The increases in the counties run from approximately H0 to 240 per cent, making an average Increase of about 2o0 per cent. The board had expected ex-pected nearer 300 per cent.