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Show TAX VALUATION Tax notices are being mailed out; perhaps you have received yours already. al-ready. It Is interesting to make" comparisons: compari-sons: The editor owns a very neat, well made, fine brlckhouse at 415 Eighth Avenue, Salt Lake City five rooms, cement walk laid down; lawn torr;.c-;d In throe tcrruece; shade treei front and back; lawn In rear; fruit trees in rear; toilet, bath, sewer, , electric lights In fact a nice little home, comparing very favorcbly with some of the very best in Delta. In Salt Lake County's assessment valuation valua-tion he Is assessed $1,600 for the houHe. Dut in Millard County he Is assessed as-sessed for a frame house, no bath, no sewer, no shads trees, "no noth-ln' noth-ln' " he Is assessed $1,400 FOR THE HOUSE. In other words, this house here in Delta is worth within $200 of the one In the city! Well, glad to know It. If I could only have convinced the man who bought mo out, what a stack of kale I could have made. When such valuations with consequent con-sequent taxes fall to bring adequate schools; fall to rotaln a woman home oconomlc demonstrator; fall to keep on the job a county agriculturist; fall to get political or other proper consideration, con-sideration, it operates as an inducement induce-ment to own more in Salt Lake County and less In Millard In 1920 we were assessed In Millard Mil-lard County $3,850 for a printing plant we had bought the year before of C. O. Davis for $3,000; this year we are assessed $1,6 00 on a house and lot we are buying on contract for $1,500; in other words, we were assessed on a valuation of $5,450 on what cost us $4,500. We paid taxes to Millard County in 1920 on this property $127.40. We got a total revenue from Mll-' Mll-' lard County in work allotted to us for paying those taxes, the magnificent magni-ficent sum of $31.50. We challenge the Fillmore paper to publish what valuation it was assessed as-sessed on a plant It bought from Joe Smith for $5,000, and to Bhow the total of work allotted to it for the same period. |