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Show NADA FARMERS ENTER PROTEST Committee Appears Before Be-fore County Board of Equalization CLAIM THEIR RANCHES ARE VALUED TOO HIGH FOR TAXATION TAX-ATION PURPOSES Dear Editor As we made a trip to Beaver, last Monday, to meet the Board of Equalization and had previously pre-viously promised some of your readers read-ers to report the result, we thought your valuable paper the proper medium. med-ium. Had a pleasant trip from Milford under the careful guidance of Mr. Duffin and met several of our former for-mer acquaintances, the accommodating accommo-dating clerk, the jovial sheriff, the broad grin of the surveyor and Mr. Tolton's smile. In introducing ourselves our-selves to the county attorney, whose youthful appearance told us again that we need not be middle-aged to win the confidence of the people. Indirectly, In-directly, we got the name of one of the members of the board, Mr. Parkinson, Par-kinson, and as he shook hands with neighbors from Nada, Mrs. H. M. Dinwiddie and W. C. Dinwiddie, who were at Beaver for the same purpose as ourselves. From long practice in medicine, we have made it a point to form an opinion of those with whom we come in contact, con-tact, so we at once felt that Mr. Parkinson Par-kinson would do the square thing. We understand the board contemplates contem-plates assessing the dry farms at Nada Na-da for the same as those under the project and in Beaver bottoms. If this is the case, we appear to be living liv-ing under the Kaiser's rule or "Taxation without representation. On enquiring why we should be taxed more than others, whose farms are not cut in, two by the rafl-road, rafl-road, we received this reply: "Because "Be-cause you have a store." As we have been taxed since we came here for this privilege, we felt that we had paid for it dearly, without having it almost doubled on our claim. It looks to us more as a punishment pun-ishment for daring to come to a place, which has for years been considered con-sidered worthless until the County Assessor had a chance to tax it, all at once it rose to a great value compared com-pared to estimates placed on it before. be-fore. Is this to discourage any one who has had the courage to come here and spend their hard earned money from other states to reclaim the desert. It seems a better policy to encourage the building up of the vacant lands in the county. Only property owned on January 1st is taxable, but this was not taken ta-ken into consideration by the assessor, assess-or, but a piano bought eight years ago and brought across the continent practically was valued at purchase price. We feel that as this is the fourth year we pay taxes without one visit from the assessor in all that time, our complaints are not without foundation. foun-dation. We ask only a fair deal, and are willing to do our share. This question we would like to have answered: Does a merchant in. we'll say Beaver, have to pay taxes on property on which his neighbor is exempt, simply because he does not "have a store?" The merchant pays his license every year, .which should be sufficient. Where did we used to hear that "all men are created cre-ated equal?" Respectfully. L. A. Culmsee. |