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Show Published Every Saturday GOODWINS WEEKLY PUBLISHING CO., INC. A. W. RAYBOULD, Manager (nK E. SCHEFSKI, Editor SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: including postage in the United 8tates, Canada and Mexico, 2.50 per year, Subscriptions to all foreign countries, within the Postal vfor six months. $4.50 per year. BY Payments should be made by Check, Money Order or Registered Letter, payable to The Citizen. Address all communications to The Citizen. Entered as second-clas- s matter, June 21, 1919, at the postoffice at 8alt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Phone Wasatch 5409 Ness Bldg. 8alt Lake City, Utah 311-12-- 13 POPULAR TAX ASSESSOR Assessor, M. L. Cummings has made his report to the board of equalization, which shows an increase of taxable County te s $1,485,440 in this city, notwithstanding many reductions assessment rolls. The total valuation of property in this is $214,402,820, while in the city the property valuation is tnue of the nty 212,175. 6-in- Cummings is said to be the most popular assessor this city i had. He is always ready to listen to any grievances, and he siders it his duty, and he does it cheerfully, to adjust any high Mr. $ nt as-snie- p wt ). IT may be made by his men. He shows no favoritism he makes no class distinction. That is one reason why he is popular with the people. He is an real estate man, he understands values and he tries to do the which thing. are valuation figures on the assessment rolls, according to investigators, that should have some attention. Real estate s are found on blocks of the same street where there is a wide There assessment. The rates were fixed many years ago, long Cummings came into office, and they are still on s books. There is no reason why a piece of property in the e of a block should more taxes than a like piece on a pay Ml fer, but it is said that such is the case. Especially is this true Te some people own large pieces of real estate who are taxed in ch irSp be-Asses- than the small home owner. this is true, the county commissioners should provide sor less If Assess-Cummin- gs with sufficient help, or back him up, in rechecking entire city and county, with a view of making equal assesses on blocks, streets and locations, and make all values the same fhe We would like to know why the city commissioners keep up an expensive engineering department when its advice is utterly disregarded and its opinion is held so lightly. Sixty-on- e per cent of the people along the intended paved district have voted for paving, which means that 39 per cent must concrete base pay against their will. It is proposed to lay a with 2 niches of asphaltic material, probably the patented kind, which in all will not be as durable as a six inch concrete road, which tests and traffic will demonstrate. Now if the Utah materials are so much better than the imported California product, why is it that Commissioner Burton is so anxious for the imported stuff? Burton appears to do about as he pleases. He will not take advice from any one in road building and he is spending more money on road repairs than ever was spent in the history of this city. If he puts in much more blacktop it will keep this city busted in making road repairs. He says it is easy to make road repairs with the black material. Grant him this, but if repairs have to be made every year on roads which should last 15 or 20 years, wherein is his logic? An election is coming this fall and the people should sec to it that men are elected who will be for Utah products, first, last and all the time. Let us elect businessmen for a businessmans administration of our municipal affairs, and men who can give the people results. Utah Portland cement is better road material by far than Calfornia asphalt. Ask any reputable engineer. respective ch FREIGHT RATES districts. Several people have been checking real estate assessments this and they report many discrepancies and unbalanced figures, pne cases amounting to thousands of dollars. It would be hard to discover these things unless brought to his im- attention, but if he could put on a force of men, the entire lbr could be rechecked and property values could then be more ,zcd as to tax assessments. No doubt a recheck would result e axes being raised while many would be lowered. Mr. Cum- "ouldbe the right man to do this work because of his thorough JJcdge of real estate values and his desire to do the right thing people who have elected him to do their work. Jthe assessor te MANUFACTURERS IGNORED in The has .asked for bids for grading, paving, curbing and nng Fourth East street from Thirteenth South to Seventeenth 101 , Clty Street. o ierio wth this work the Utah Manufacturers Asso- 1C'S cccl)b' and vitally interested in home products, asked (eou" that Utah materials be used in the construction of this paved road and its request has been disregarded. ion i U C0.nccon It is said that a sack of wheat or a sack of wool can be sent as cheaply, if not cheaper, from Chicago to England than can the same be sent from Idaho or Utah to Portland, Oregon. Railway rates, especially in the West, have long been a bone of contention. It is well known that at one time goods could be sent cheaper from China to Denver and then back to Salt Lake, than the same goods could be sent from China direct to this city. Goods shiped from Chicago could be sent cheaper to this city by sending them to San Francisco and return to this city. There may have been a good political reason for the extra haul, but no just reason. Efforts arc now being made to adjust grain rates in order that the farmers are or will be able to ship their grain out of their respective districts. In many parts of our country, grains had to be nearly given away after freight rates were paid. There has not been any readjustment of reight rates on pre-wschedules. The adjustments have in most part been made on war prices and the rates are considerable higher now than they were before the war. Of course wages arc a trifle higher but where such large volumes of business is handled the wage is but an item in the expense account. ar |