Show salt lakes assessment the salt late lake tribune is usually all right on matters that are not of too great a personal interest to it but when directly concerned it occasionally gets off on one foot as it did sunday morning on the prospect of salt lake countes coun tys assessment having to be raised and it displayed some ignorance that is scarcely justifiable for a paper in its position to know or learn the facts the constitution limits the rate of taxation to five mills for state purposes and the legislature passed a law that in round numbers the sum of must be raised by taxation the assessed valuation of property is likely to be about as reported by assessors less remit remittances and abatements the state boa board rd of equalization can not realize the required amount on that value and that rate the constitution fixes the rate and therefore the valuation must be raised or the state run behind the objection of the tribune seems to be however moro more to raising the valuation of salt lake county than to the raise at all we know one class of property in salt lake county that is at least 5 per aej cent lower than that of utah county and we think utah county is none top high the statement that salt baie lake county is assessed higher in proportion to its wealth than other counties will probably find few advocates outside of salt lake county itself |