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Show Tax Commission Cuts Range Value, .. Raises Livestock Livestock owners and sheep growers of southern Utah were undecided unde-cided whether to be pleased or chagrinned Monday when the Utah State Tax Commission, sitting as a board ofequalization, increased the valuation on cattle and sheep ?0 per cent and cut down the valuation valua-tion of grazing lands by a similar percentage. The proposed valuation for the 201.854 head of range cattle in the state of Utah was set at $2,620,592, which, with the 10 per cent additional addi-tional amounted to $2,882651, while the final figure for all nonrange cattle, totaling approximately 106,-583 106,-583 head, is set at $2,637,009. Valuation for the 1,288,974 head of sheep was placed at $4,054,108. The proposed values, prior to adding add-ing the 10 per cent, were as follows; fol-lows; range cattle: calves (wean-ers), (wean-ers), $8.50 a head; cows, $15; yearlings, year-lings, $14; 2-yoar-olds. $19. For other cattle: dairy cows, $25, and all others according to value. For sheep: stock sheep, $3, and purebred pure-bred ewes and rams, $6. A cut in the valuation of grazing graz-ing lands was ordered by the commission com-mission due to a feeling that such land values were inflated when compared to other lands. A survey, to be completed before January 1, was also ordered. This cut involves all counties in the. state except Garfield and reduces re-duces the land valuation from $10.-615,037 $10.-615,037 to $9,553,507. With Garfield county's lands worth $129,609, the total valuation amounted to $9,683,-116. |