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Show SEEGMTLLER ON TAX REVISION W. W. Seegmiller, well known as a Republican leader in Utah political circles, dropped' in Saturday for a visit and fell to discussing- the tax revision movement now underway under-way in this state. Mr. Seegmiller's chief concern in this matter is that full publicity will not be given the public relative to the need of tax revision and plans proposed for it. This paper some time ago made a request for public opinion, written on the typewriter and confined to the subject of tax revision. revisi-on. We will be glad to give full publicity to any phase of tax revision as fast as the tax commission will make its findings public, or as fast as the public wishes to express its opinion through the press. Feeling that the mining industry may be jeopardized prompts Mr. Seegmiller to request that the public think on the tax question. Mining, he says, will undergo no slump in Utah, no matter which way the commission recommends to the governor. However, an increased tax on mining properties, such as that suggested in the Jorgenson bill, will minimize prospecting. As Utah is a low-grade ore state, ranking first in quantity of low-grade ore, mining must necessarily have free rein to prospect on a large scale. Mining, he said, has no quarrel with agriculture in reapportioning re-apportioning taxes, nor with any other industry in the state. |