Show air billmore riLL MORE PROGRESS S VI 11 S ABOUT TAXES abs count hold annual may sale the millard coun board ot of corn com held the annual may sale last tuesday and sold the as cis advertised although the sale was attended by one of the largest crowds that has ever attended a similar sale very little property was sold about items were advertised and sold and county officers report that only about a dozen parcels were actually sold and from these only a little over 00 was derived the total a mount of the delinquent land would run into many thousands of acres and represent many many more thousands of dollars in tax delin quency of the few pieces that were sold not one was upon competitive bidding that Is to say the property sold tor for taxes penalty and costs that had thereto been assessed to the outsider who is not famil lar far with the situation the fact that no appreciable amount of this land was sold gives rise to various con elusions it is not questioned that some 4 acres of the land was good improved or partially improve ed ed property but the various ramia icat ions of the legality of the drain age mortgage holders and bandhold bond bold hold ers interests perhaps accounts for the of anone an one to bid just what ahat position the board of county commissioners will take aa n disposing of the land lani now that it Is in their possession cannot be said it ia Is certain tor for one thing it they take the viewpoint that a full abatement of past taxes is to be given by allowing the owners or lien holders to repurchase tor for little or nothing that this county will be many years recovering from the predicament on the cither hand it if the board endeavors to realize every dollar khat may be obtained from this land that has passed to the county for non payment of taxes it might possibly work a hardship on the farmer to the extent that he could not sur vive at the best it is a difficult sit nation and acne that the county corn com mis must work out for the best interests of FUTURE MILLARD county as a whole not any ual al and not any one interest when we say the best interests of future future millard county we are not unmindful of the tax payer who thru all these years has struggled and paid his taxes in full his ills tu fu ture should be guarded and it is most certainly the sound duty of our board of county commissioners to not be misled by those who apparently think only of themselves in the light of the hard times bad bad invest ments and speculations of the past the citizens with taxable property impald tor for by hard earned jabeir seems to this writer to bei be facing a critical situation in millard county it nom non payment and abatement of taxes Is allowed to continue we all know that the expense of local and state government will continue with little reduction that burden is already placed upon us and the property owner apparently will have to pay it in the future notwithstanding some recent beautiful promises of a relief from such tax burdens we copy the above from the issue of may ath 1931 of the progress at fillmore to all of which we say AMEN taxes are allowed to go to delinquency and up maybe to tn rale with the hope that by putting up a strong whine the board of county commissioners can be talked out of a big reductio ni on the tax it is ign t tali to the man who by hard wark good management good baneg ban ig of his limited means and by strictest test economy HAS PAID all ah ta in fa full after year thanks I 1 ance w me e re glad you baca it and commend your stand the chronicle mr earl N cortus son of mr and mrs L S dorlus will leave delta may for the french mission where he has been i ailed to labor as a missionary tow the L D S church the sportsmen of the state of utah will hold their ath annual out ing at geneva on may 23 and 24 sponsored by the salt lake county rish and game association there huell be dancing camp tire fire talks fly and bait casting trap shooting races ani and archola ray cox of ogden spent sunday which was mothers day in delta with his 2 mother other mrs 3 J D cox |