Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-24 | Page 9 | Coal Land Taxation Subject of Meeting

COAL LAND TAXATION SUBJECT OF MEETING State Board of Equalization Meets With Carbon and Emery County Officials to Keacli Understanding. Spocial to The Tribune. PRICE, Jan. 23 Questions of coa! land taxation In Carbon and Emery counties were Uioroughly threshed out tndav In a conference here between meinbern of the state board of equalization and ofli-cials ofli-cials of the 1v.o counties-. 1'ipent were William Bailey, James T. Hammond and George Homney of the stnte board of commissioners; ). R. ;il-Ilspie, ;il-Ilspie, Isaac A ll red and D. II. Leonard. Treasurer IxmiIk (inyrnon, Ahsoshoi- Louis Hansen and Clerk VV. G. F'.ar.ock, Jr., of Kmery count ' ; CoininiJ-.ioners A Ibr-rt Eryner and W. T. IIh rn i 1 1 on . TreasMi nr Alalia P-'illincer. Aeor Rntrn Randolph, Ran-dolph, Clerk K. P. Uorwley and Attorney Thom;is ?'outs of Carbon county. T'ne county officials listened carefully to the intorprct;ition of the law as read by Mr. Hammond anil readily a creed to follow it in making assepfmonts this year. It va s roin t d out lo thp b 'a te board that many errors in clapsifl'-Rtion o'cur. and that many quartpr-nations clas:ifieJ as coal landy may contain only a arnail volume of coal. A rsurvey wn: eutepppted, w-ith a new classification. Iyocal a nt )iorities contend thai undr the strict interpretation of the law the valuation of tho coal lands ! Carbon county will be W-ph than undi the $rg per acre blanket assessment, usi last year. Al best, -"ounlv oflicials fort sop o pensive li tipa 'ion beforo the ma. ter is fma Hy adju:sLed.