| Show they met het Yut yesterday erday in ia special session at their headquarters considered ana protested the action of the board of equalization the railroad tina time discussed Bis cussed the business mens met yesterday per call of president the tha president called attention to the tact fact that the county commissioners had bad received the following letters the county commissioner and county auditor of cache county login logan utah gentlemen you yon are hereby notified that that the state boo board rd of equalization of utah propose to increase increase the assessed valuation of all merchandise in your county for the purposes of state Tax taxation naion for the year by adding there hereto ib 10 per cent of the valuation of the merchandise as assessed by the county assessor as the same appears on the assess assessment meat roll of your county at this date the board will consider all objection which may be made to such increase at its office in salt lake city on or before friday aug 0 1401 1896 by order of the board J J THOMAS secy the matter was discussed before the association it was moved that a committee of three be appointed by the chair to draft a protest a against the proposition of the state board of equalization Cai cairies ried the chair appointed jos Bl Morrell orrell N W kimball and 11 W C cates A letter from W 11 II bancroft was read and ordered filed the letter contained information re regarding ardin the preston branch connecting conre with main line the I 1 train service was discus discussed ed to some extent and the executive committee was ordered to look into the matter and find out what other time the unon union pacific we would uld make on freight trains to draw more commercial roro mercial men and to tourists into losan logan the committee on protest reported as follows resolution to the bif itna ian commissioners of cyclic cache GE we the undersigned undersigner under signed merchants of cache county respectfully protest against the contemplated action of the state board or of equalization in raising the assessed value of merchandise stocks in this thia county for the following reasons let we weare are now assessed higher than other classes of property in the county bebej 2nd and our stocks have been greatly decreased in the last year while our assessments have not 3rd ard on account of the reduction on in cost of merchandise our stocks have apen greatly deepree bated in value during the year we bethink think this action entirely claa discrimination in unjustly putting the burden on the part instead of all the assessed pr property therefore we ire must mast earnestly ask N your our honorable body to use every effort to have this action oatha of the state stata board considered as we feel that our assessments should rather bs be decreased than increased signed by every business man in cache county appropriations were made to the tha amount of twenty dollars dollar cash prices were adopted by tha th merchants on all produce adjournment |
