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Show ' TAX OFHCIALS TO -J m M COUNTY! Board of Equalization to Visit , County Scats to Help Solve Assessment Problems. If - The state board 'of equalization . ' decided yesterday on n new plan for ,. ' meeting with the county taxing of-' ficials, and will proceed to carry it out, beginning October 17, next This ( ; is to visit and meet with the county commissioners and tho county as- ; ' sessors particularly between now ' , and the time that tho field work of " assessing property in the state be-t be-t Kins. Hitherto such meetings have been , ' held while the work of making tho f, annual assessment of property in a county was on or just as it was bc- j ing completed. Conferences at such times enabled tho state to have some '" of tho work done by county assessors I ' corrected, where necessary. The idea in meeting with these officials in tho I! fall of the year is to have tho work " done on tho proper plan; in other (' -words, that the best time to correct an assessment of property in a county coun-ty is before the assessment is made. Tho board also decided on visits, ' ' so far as possible to each county scat in the state, rather than have ,' tho county officials come to Salt jj P - Lake or to some central point, even k v , for a district. Tho plan is for tho L state and .county officials to gcjt , . their feet under tho same table in ( each particular county and there to ' study and work out, so far as pos- ky ' sible, the problems peculiar to that county. It is hoped that by this 1 moans, not only the heads of county v f - departments, but also their chief as- ; h sistants, will bo present at the series i Kjf. ' . of conferences and will be able to F - ffct first-hand Information as to-tho J problems of tho state assessment as tho stato board sees them and also l I tho problems of each county. ' Tho board hopes to be accom panied on these trips by Mark Tut- tie, Btate auditor, or, if that is found to bo impossible, by some representative re-presentative of Mr. Tuttle's office, who will nssist in determining solutions so-lutions to problems presented in each county. As plans now stand tljc bVnvd will leave Salt Lake on October 17 and visit first tho southwestern tier of counties Millard, Beaver, Iron and Washington. Stops of a day and a half will be made in each county in order to give opportunity for a thoro discussion of local problems. ' Tho board will also on this trip not bo forgetful of its own jurisdiction as assessor of mining properties and j of public utilities in each county . visited. In Iron county tho board may stop n comparatively long period, to in- vestigato tho coal properties there and also to view tho iron deposits in tho vicinity of Iron Springs Salt Lako Tribune. |