| Show PROTEST constitutionality of the raise in carbon county assessments likely to confront state board of equalization As ibe the advocate goe 3 to top press this morning cavity auditor Iol dauny has wont word from front the state mard of equal iut ion j first aliat 11 W per cent be addad to bill dt except such huon ro emente ne its ila liae e bc been by the tile state board second that 2 byor rent cent tx bo kidded to tt tit fi alti nation of all honbo horw atil mutes u lea third tha ra per out tout be added to the valuation of all tools implements 1 nud plies except endi such tie os have hao been by the anute board this action will bring the total as se for tho the county for the 3 a tar up to 2 1 from luat last monday the staw luid bouti of equalization was iu in session at salt lake tako city to hear protests pro teata froni front carbon county on a proposed baljo in of property the state board gave notice to the auditor of carbon county that a it raise in theasa ased valuation of property was contemplated CO 50 per cent ou on all improve ments rne 25 per cent on nil all lands and town lots and 25 per cent on horses this proposed raise sap supplies plies only to Carbon counti count no other county wag was no tilled neither was uny tiny other county before the board in response to tha notice of this proposed raise nil fill members of the board of county commissioners of carbon county D IV holdaway Hol dawny count auditor william hill sher sheriff lIT ana anti W H 11 arrye county actor oy y were OP or hand at 10 0 clock in tho the tore noon last monday the tile time named lu in the notice for tho the hearing of prote prot alb esis at the same hour and anti in behalf of the tile utah fuel company appeared 31 11 brodat and A wedgewood tho the board was not obliged as a a LL matter of law to liston nor to rive give notice but all parties were treated with cur tesy and every member of the bord became an interested listener ll stoner and while they 8 seemed very determined tried in choir proposal to make this ralso it waa apparent that the matter which they had proposed was a N ory gerlous one in to fact for tho the people of carbon anty county and a decidedly questionable as IL matter of ot law because as la Is stated by able lawyers iolati ac is extremely doubtful whether the state board posse saps the tau constitutional power or authority to make the pro posed raise in v alues or to deal with tho the question at nil all the tile state board sit situ ni r a board ot of within ltd its sphere the tile same ai the county boards and not as a u board of control nor its a dictator the state coo con ims fins very ery westly ly restricted nod tind ltv powers poem and I 1 f prerogatives ire roga ingvi t to thy the equalization ot of the tile property of the county utter it Is valued as required b bv law laa tho the t title board hua has no power in the matter of the proposed enle na as it shall affect tho the improvements of the utah fuel company ut tit various cool coal campi in carbon carbou county it Is undisputed ad as a mutter matter of fact that such improvements are at to the anlue and the tile operating ope of the same and in no sense independent from the mine ming the opening and working ot of a coul mine where these mines ure are situated creates the absolute feces alty for theeb shut down or tole take away the mine permanently nod nd aou ou destroy the value of the improvements Improve niente except possibly the tile machinery and tools all other im cements become mero mere punk this company to 1 obliged to provide houses for the of its miners and unit their families tile fact that it charges thoai them rent for the houses in denae bendi to ila a market value tor for the houses because either the amount of tho the rent la Is added by the compary to tu tho the pay of the minor miner or he lie provi provide deti a shelter for himself and family and secures less for this labor besides the average miner coming lua lol a co il d camp to engage ot at labor aj a miner come without ae means of providing a home except to rent then too since tho the strike there aru are a great number ot of abandoned huts buts on its premises which are a pos positive ItIe in la elim nm brance instead of a benelli to the tile crom company part which hae haie all been assessed q the company at a value oc of not less than fifty dollars each it this proposed raise ivalue in iu alue Is made it will impose a ery great hardship and a positive pos itle injustice upon the taxpayers of carbon cout county ity TI the he value of like property in the old 1 co counties antles of the state Is a very ery poor crit ri orlon by which to alx values in carbon the advocate frankly confesses that wo we are unable to see why this raise Is proposed |
