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Show Retroactive Levy Held Permissible - - ' 1 . County taxing officials have the right to assess property that haa escaped es-caped taxation. In the matter of the South Utah Mines and Smsltsrs company, tha county assessor ot Beaver county has entered the tailings tail-ings dump of tha company oa ths aaasaament rolls of the county for the years lilt. It, 10. It aad tl, but owing to the difficulty of placing a value on ths dump prior to the yeer lsil, the taxing authorities ef the oounty determined not to go back further then thle yeer. In view that en Tuesday next the hoard of county com ml eel oners of Beaver oounty will be reconvened ae a county board ef equalisation by order of the Mate board or equalisation equali-sation and that the attorneys ef the company will be present to protest the assessment, the county attorney attor-ney wrote the attorney general regarding re-garding ths matter. W. A. Hilton, assistant attorney general, to whom the quesUoa waa referred. In reply te the Beaver oounty attorney, ears that tbs counties coun-ties have the power to ease as' property prop-erty which haa escaped asesssmsnt, this power being glvea In. section Mel, laws of ll- . . ., |