Show taxes in in utah county ou 1 the meeting of the taxpayers the other lay day was well attended and the sentiment expressed at the meeting 0 showed how keenly tile the aso pie feel the money moncy stringency b the prevailing ailin lin idea seemed to bo be that the property is too high that tha t the valuation which is now upon it was put there at the time when a little boom struck our little to toyn yn like it did many others ot liers this should lie bo taken into consideration by our local board of equalization and territorial boari board also payi yn vu 11 ij cu if these lots would fetch the put value upon tm if upon the market A thesis this is wrong in ill I 1 foar it is detrimental to improvements and it too often appears that our officers take advantage n of the tha man mail who is willing 0 and does docs make large in the town where he lives lie ile oft inies spends several hundreds or thousands in improving his homer home which is a ere credit dit to him and an an ornament to the city ile he has found employment fa for r several reveral laboring 0 men which lias has roade a blessing to them and because lie he lias has made the improvement the assessor when lie he conics comes along raises liis his assessment about four or five hundred undred ii per cent this we claim is jad bad policy for it is to tile he country for it to often drives the lie man of means to put his money where tile the tax collector cannot reach it whereas if a different policy was pursued and encouragement given lie ie would do otherwise with the means bothin nothing c has ever been made or ever will be by oppressing the raan of improvements neither can any good come collie from taxing carp corporations orations and institutions so heavily that it distresses them theirl to say pay the tax we lve know two institutions in this city the taxes of which are not less than 2300 if these taxed taxes had bad to be je paid at the present time it would almost ruin those cheicis is no good judgment 0 ment shown in n taxing us ite wo lve are satisfied that the abo com appointed by the taxpayers of this city will work in good faith and do all they can for them it is is to be 1101 hoped CLI that our county court will listen to their plea in regard r a r d to having something 0 done to lower their taxes for this v year ear and do all that the law will allow them to do we think the labors of the corn com mittice should widen out and take in iii every city in utah county and if needs be extend to the whole of the terri territory loyy lehi leh i banner |