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Show COUNTY CUTS FARMTAXES Agricultural Valuations Reduced Re-duced Outside City Boundaries. ; Valuation of improved farm lands of Utah county was lowered 10 per cent by the board of county commissioners com-missioners on their last t"ay of equalization. This reduction was made because of a petition o the taxing committee commit-tee of the Utah county farm bureau, who appeared before the county commissioners on June first, and asked for a 25 per cent reduction upon the improved farm laud of the county. This request was made because of the shortage of water, and poor crop outlook, they explained. After a consideration of several weeks by the commissioners an in-vestigation in-vestigation by County assessor C. B. Hawkins which brought forth the fact that due to blanket rnlsea made by the state board of Equalization Equali-zation in years past, improved farm lands within Utah county lying outside the incorporated cities are higher than the same class of lands within the limits of incorporated cities. This comes about because lands lying outside the city limits are under the law classified, while those lands lying outside the city classified, therefore all blanket raises of reductions upon improved farm lands can apply only upon those lands lying outside thi city limits. County Assessor Hawkins, states that he does not approve of blan ket reductions because of the danger dan-ger of giving relief to lands already low, and he is also opposed to blan ket raises because of the danger oi raising lands already too high. But this year he states is unusual and he thinks it better to give the abovt relief. Mr. Hawkins will instruct hu deputies to make proper adjustment! upon the lands within the cits limits which may be above the aver age valuation of adjoining property |