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Show IPtflPRQVEMENT TAX COLLECTION ARGUED Method Now in Operation Is Criticised at Realty Board Luncheon. 'I Hseussiny the matter or taxes on city improvements ami tlio ordinances under whU'.h hi; ia rt:o,uircd to collect them, TCob-ert TCob-ert N. Younf, city treasurer, was tlio pi Inriruil "speaker yesttirday at the reirular semimonthly meeting- and luncheon oC the Salt iike reuj esLiite board, lindtr conditions con-ditions u lik li pre ailed some yejus ao. ilr. Youns suit I, it was cu-stotnaO' to collect col-lect only a small iiejialty on deli no. uont taxes, and only intercut on thu amount aidually due. t'ondition.s are different now, he .said, niul while ti pec cetit Interest is ehai'K'd immediately on the taxes becoming' delin quent, on the amount iietuaily due,, ir payment pay-ment ifl delayed, for whatever reasnn, -per rent additional inteiest is Imposed, not only on the amount of tho assessment actually due, but on the whole piincipal. This whs r-hararterized as an outrage on the properly owners of Salt ltlce, by W. J. J I a Horn n of the ilallorau-J u1ko Ij03Ji & Trust company, and there was a lively discussion. M 1. Vomi explained that it uas not the desire of tht; julmin-LsLration julmin-LsLration to sell projoriy on which taxes berime delirniuent, but during Flie:e times sometiiln must be done, ho juiid. to make tiirt raymenl of taxes more prompt. It ts probable that some t-teps nmy be taken to bri ncr about a revision of t he ordi-IittnetiS ordi-IittnetiS covering tho suhje( L The subject of a hro;ui cum pa in of advertising fur the city of Salt lke. tin-oer tin-oer the au.;plci?.s of the board, was intro-dcl intro-dcl by Secretary '. T I . Kichrv and tt was decidi d to invite W illiam Kishle u s a jcuest at the next luncheon, to offer suggestions for conduciln the cand'ain of punlj.-ity. New me "iibors of the tuanl n re H. 71. W'nldo, so-retary-tie.i-t.urer of thy Tcllu-ride Tcllu-ride Realty oompemv, anl M'r. Ore.-nr, secretary of the KritsWi 1 .; ti A- Trust comrinv. liiirs were Fn-d 1 -it tie of Lllth! ltrathery. and Waller M-?ekn. |