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Show OUR ASSESSMENTS ARE EXORBITANTLY HIGH County Commissioners Roeco, Wad-ley Wad-ley ind lliomns registered a com. plaint boforo tho state board of equal, latlon Tuesday, assorting that lelr taxos hnd beon erroneously increased. increas-ed. It wan found, however, that a largo measure of the Increnso wns duo to nn error on the r-r-1 of an em. 'ployoo o? Utah counfyv who had list, cd 7600 inoro cattle than nctuolly woro owned in tho somiiy. After correction of this error tho rjujo&sed valuation I9r hend for cattle cat-tle wns still $41t whllo tho nvorago for tho Btate is $35. Attention was cnllod by 'the dclesatton to tho fact thut -v largo reduction had been mado In Salt It'ko count7 trxes, but that In Utah county they hnd beon Increased In-creased cno nnd three quarter mill. Ions. Tho commissioner also clulm-ed clulm-ed that Uieep in Utah .-punty had been listed too hlgli, though whllo thoy had 'tlrted'thelr sheep at $1C per head, the avorcge prlco throughout the state was $20. Claims of the commissioners will bo taken under cdvUcnicnt by tho board with a view to making a nitis. factory adjustment. |