Show ill 1 11 1 I 1 sins LE ISS IN III I 1 fulth state auditor who badt it n trip in his of official fitial ipanto apa it through tigh L it t ta 1 liht ak t k was int rvin cd ed by th tribune on his return to salt lake relative to the f fi I 1 na IR lla conditions ons in this sec see tion ion reflected b bv V lax ax st stalls its tiia mr huttl reported a great improve mint in the collet collection tion of 1 conditions being much better than for several years past the tribune article fol lows tax ta statistics in southeastern utah reveal this year a considerably sider ably more prosperous condition than last this is shown bv b figures collected bv b 1 mark alark tuttle state auditor during a ten day gnp in which he audited nc counts in carbon emery grind girand gir and and san juan counties in which the state funds are in tre stid mr tuttle returned to his office in the state capitol yesterday vester dav in grand girt a rid count county this it vear ear the net of taxes chich v aich the state has charged against the county treasurer is owing to the sale itale of the property to ahr count for taxes some 2000 of this is not vit aai available lable as a cash revenue to the state I 1 though it will nill ultimately be I 1 I 1 paid the property being held as I 1 security the percentage of pro perty thus going to tax sales for failure to pa taxes in 1921 I 1 in grand county was only about 5 7 per cent rent in carbon county where was due the I 1 state some or 6 62 2 per cent has not been paid on 1 account of the going to sale in emery of 57 net state taxes has not been paid indicating that 16 5 per cent of the property was alloi allowed ed to go to tax sales in san juan county with net state tax charges re mains main or about 38 per cent the four counties show 10 per cent of the property in the aggregate going to sale san juan and emery reflect the condition of the cattle industry last winter grand and carbon are sheep counties and have iq 10 addition a heavy proportion R on of large corporations which of course pay their taxes regularly the figures on the whole show a much better condition than a year ago mr air tuttle remarked though the percentage especially in two of the count ties is still too high mr air tuttle commented on the fact that tsat practically per cent of the personal property taxes in three of the counties has already been collected while in the fourth emery this condition will prevail in the near future as the sheep shearing season gets under way the slate has the checks of the county treasurer in full for state taxes due from san juan last year and this however some of the other funds in san juan have not as yet received their proportion of the 1922 personal property taxes every hope is expressed that the AM arrears will be made up within a few weeks otherwise the county and the school district may be expected to take means to see that the amounts are paid atey 1 I C Q whipple Whip pic patter of the local baptist church will leave sot or salt lake city sunday to attend the utah bit pt ests state convention |