Show alie of fourteen of the of met in silt lake recently thy purpose being to discuss their work tin s is all right but outside of this the anre subject to criticism ordinarily alie law ought to govern nn officer in alio execution of his duties and clr liw states that property shill ba assessed cash valuation on n jicy in the year this comei M ne ir being in reil value for both the term fair nud real 1110 uncertain the fiihr cash piilini alon of the ina means taht aliu no perty is liona itly ill it n n raal alili alao ulao tint the assessors uke it ns n light roiling with to leclire ne clire that they will assess at n fifty per cent ical valuation sui icks of decided asur pation ve all understand lint lu to law H executed with as little to it as if were no lav on the subject but it lias mui ined for the assessors now in olac to lonn out us n body and openly improve ou alio law whatever kiy liac diac len the clainie il practice pr cent his been ane alleged rule but we will 11 cookie in no county or city ii the territory Terii tory does the average fitly per cent of alio chili valuation 0 property an d the more outlying tho county the farther is the approach to a fifty per acut valuation but the great piece of work to be considered as obnoxious is alie dici sion to tax broad fuaga at a mile and narrow guage at 1500 we do not like to belaev be liev it but it dors look is though there lias been a fitt of passes at this meeting A local babker a resident merchant i the honest farmer all nho contribute to make utah what she is are to pay a flat per cent of the real while the roads are draining the country and practically robbing 0 it are taxed their entire length at n rate alo union pacific and central pacific cost approaching pro aching a mile they arc supposed to earn interest on are al anc this sum while alie merchant and farmer anil banker at one halt hie real docs any member ol 01 lans board of assessors believe or a moment that the D R G broad can be duplicated or or a mile right 0 way included could a man buy the U II 11 G on alie basis that its track etc was yorlli but a mile hardly property is to be taxed it fitly per cent 0 its real but railroads thai diio been accorded enuch ind usurped the rest are I 1 10 taxed at than one third ought to be change in alie assessors vac much use or men whom alic people will elect to and win vor the consumer us against the producer and such consumers loo it needs no intellect to discover eliat a mile 0 load in a paying district is worth two luicci in a district that ia poor anil sparsely we hazard little in huking nuking the as bertion hint hie utah mile in mile out in would lie paid or by a on the value 0 its track based on earned at n higher figure than the utah road mile tor mile averaged in aali yn blui elih central ii taxed it n mil lie utah 1 northern at 1510 a the D S it G iu name covers more bood country in utah alian cither the 0 P or alie C P alie C P less than alic U P and yit alicy all pay the same on a air valuation cl hie vil iii of hie track im utah the central knitli its dreary length in box kailor county pay acs by half aban the utah and northern yet it pays cac per cent more alie discrepancy herein point cil out n recognized recognised by the ly alir 0 roads froin ins rule the briolo system 0 railroad rail roid tax is rotten it has been eo or many years some day il will more than a pass to alie assessor to what rate of taxation a railroad rail roid shall pay some day the haired 0 railroads that lias airan run to repressive lawa in iowa will similarly itself in utah some daiy diy alie railroads nill not carry the assessors nor the territory in their hip pockets until elul thap comes sam trum a r of th farce 0 fitly per r nt val bation fur all loebl I and 3 to 1 00 per rule for railroads that anro draining hie tory |