Show SCHOOL tames TAXES PARK VALLEY box elder co utah march 1881 1884 editor deseret news in your issue issues of february last I 1 noticed som some 0 comments on bills in regard to the school law now I 1 have been in the office of a school trustee for several terms in small settlements and I 1 have a knowledge gai experience peri ence that the three mills tax is a great blessing for the schools and certainly very light on the people but in order to enable the school trustees to carry out the requirements of the present law viz they shall build theare a and repair houses provide maps charts and many other things I 1 think it is very necessary to allow and empower the trustees in in their respective districts to collect ono one fourth ot of one per cent and our schools would be far better as the trustees would know how much money they had to rely on and how much they could almost romise promise to pay whereas now we are armost at the mercy mercy of some who are ignorant greedy rich and powerful selfish men who would rather the whole school stopped than par pax 5 annually to have their own children taught so my opinion is hold fast to the three mills but add one fourth of one per cent on all taxable proper tyso that trustees may have haye the means at their command wherewith to carry carrr on a school very respectfully C J R |