Show RETARDING GROWTH the other day one of the real estate agents of this city called on a property owner and stated that he had a a buyer tor for a vacant piece of 0 property provided the price was right the owner named a figure which almost shocked the real estate man and lie he asked it if there was not some mistake in the quotation on being assured the I 1 price ce quoted was right II 11 mr r real estate llan alan turned away just to satisfy f y an inward prompting he called at the county assessors office to see what that certain piece of 0 property was ais assessed essed at to his astonishment the record showed just one tenth of 0 the figure asked tor for the property by the owner for instance it if the owner had asked 2000 for the property the county is collecting taxes on a value of just that same piece of 0 property was assessed 23 25 more in 1900 than it is today and yet real ss as tato tate has gone up a great deal during the last t tn xi years the same condition exists generally in this locality and the result Is there is very little doing in the real estate line in fact the growth of brigham city is being retarded the writer personally knows of several families who desired very much to locate in brigham city but prices of real estate made it prohibitive and so the famili s went over ivr to logan and bought homes the same condition is true with 0 oa 01 real estate Is much cheaper in ii i i a i c on city than it i is in brigham and so people who have only so much money to invest in n a homo home and to lot have to disappoint t themselves m and pass up brigham city it in order to find a city that has s some in ot of the advantages that we have and where they can purchase property within iii reason in discussing this question with a prominent busin business ss man of the city the other day he be expressed a desire to be the county assessor tor for just one term stated that he would assess vacant property that z was waa not nota being in iw proved to the very limit but where a man was improving his property and making it more valuable and an attraction to the city more leniency would be shown think of paying taxes on a piece of property assessed at which the owner asks 2000 for the property will not begin to pay the interest on that amount no matter how it is cultivated but the owner sees other property for sale of same size and perhaps no better location and tor for which that figure I 1 Is asked so why not his bis piece being worth that we have noticed in the press reports lately that governor hawley is creating a aurore up in idaho by demanding that the assessors rate all real estate at its full cash v alue evidently idaho has been loosing out in taxes just as box elder county and brigham city are losing at tho the present time and the governor governer Is at mined to change the there Is no better place in the world for a home than brigham city and we believe there are many deop people I 1 e who would like very much to come and live here but are prevented from so doing by the high price 0 of real estate the market has been hulled bulled and until land prices come down to their prop r value the real estate a 11 gents will not get a very tat fat living and brigham city will not advance i she should |