Show I DISCUSS TAX MATTERS MATTEnS WITH WIh COLORADO OFFICIALS Grand Junction Sentinel Utah county officials came Into Colorado Thursday seeking some recompense from this county or state for fOO keeping up roads in Jn Utah which are used by Colorado stockmen In the group were County AssesSor Assessor As sensor sesSor sessor Maxwell and Commis stoners Fletcher and Bunce from Grand count county Utah They re reo report report port that l local cal stockmen operate operate oper opere ate six months in Jn Utah and although al though assessed there for the time the stock is there there is not sufficient to t keep up the roads They Th y report that In some Instances In n. n stances they have to maintain as much as 25 miles mUes so a stockman stock man can get to his camp This year they started assessing ve yee tildes hides to help d defray fray expenses but stockmen are protesting since they have already paid a Colorado license on their les The group visited the Mesa county commissioners hoping to tomake tomake tomake make some arrangements to keep everyone happy The local commissioners Informed In n. n formed the visitors that anything any anything thing that would relieve the situation sit would have to be worked worked 1 out on the state level or through I Ia a change in legislation as they cannot arbitrarily turn over vet vehicle ve hicle fee money from this county county coun ty and state to another state state- and neither do they have other funds available for road build build- ling I Ing In Utah Commissioner Walter WaIter Stout expressed the opinion that the second assessment was not too high a fee tee however This year the Utah assessor has assessed a pickup at around on which there would be a 20 fe fee has ruled that no stockman need pay on more than two ve ye hides In this this' state the vehicles les are not assessed through th the assessor but rather are taxed through the motor vehicle d department des de of the county clerks clerk's office |