Show that 90 per cent reduction the good old constitution of utah article XIII sec 4 provides as follows for the taxation of mines all mines and ming claims after purchase thereof cof from the united states shall be taxed at the price paid the united states the same aitrele further provides however that tho the duty of the county boards of equalization shall be to adjust and equalize tho the valuation of the real and personal property within their respective counties now whether this latter provision authorizes the county board of equalization to cut off 90 per cent of the purchase baso so price of coal land to aime at me ut t a fair and equal basis it will take a better legal mind than ours to fathom this is what the board of county commissioners sitting as a board of equalization tho the fore foro part of the week did were this cut made in a county run by corporations it might be different but in a county with officials al A l far above reproach it seem very fair and equal that the corporations po rations should get off for 25 an acre on coal land bought for foi an acre while the farmer is assessed an average of 6 00 an acre on land that he paid 2 60 50 for the cut means a loss of some SOMO in the expected valuation of the county and what the state board of equalization will ill think when it compares this wholesale decrease with ith the figures already sent in or who will be called to account it is hird bird to say it is a foregone conclusion cl how however vcr that some school districts are going to suffer from this wholesale decrease from expected expect cd valuation 10 if the laws permit a cut of f from roni the assessment of a corporation and only allow ji maximum abatement of 10 for the individual no matter in how poor then such law laws are needful of c considerable on sid erable patching up and this aa gating ing anything about the peculiar fix it leaves our county assessor in who has tried to do his duty by the law it is understood that mr peterson interviewed the commissioners before going ahead and was told that to go according to law was his only recourse emery county progress and now the vital burning question is vill will price citizens who have avs been indomitable boosters in timea past sit still and lt it the state road commission block the whole midland trail rather than spend another 2000 after carbon money 1 to tle the extent of anyhow has already been expended on the rd ute green river dispatch |