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Show oo TAX DISPUTE STILL ON. Provo. Aug. 8. At the regular monthly meeting of tho board of county coun-ty commissioners hero yesterday tho following communication was officially official-ly read, and while no definite action was taken in all probability objection 'to the assessment increase will be made by the commissioners on tho date designated. "You arc hereby notified that the state board of equallzaClon proposes to lncrcaso the assessed valuation of property In your county subject to assessment as-sessment by the county assessor, by adding thereto the percentage of. Increase In-crease as follows. Horses, 10 per cent; cattle 15 per cent to the valuation valua-tion of said classes oh the assessment book of your county of this state. If ou wish to object to theso raises, you can be heard on Thursday, August Au-gust 10. "By order of the stato board of equalization. GEORGE A. BLACK, "Secretary." J C. Hcaly and others of Alpine abr.cn that luo county road over the mountain from Alpine In Utah county to Draper In Salt Lake county be nbandoned George C. Lambert and thirty others, also of Alpine, filed a counter" petition with the commissioners, commis-sioners, objecting to tho abandonment of tho rond. Tho matter was referred to Commissioner J H" Gardner and Road Supervisor Geoige Y. Myers. In a communication to .the Utah county commissioners, Richard R. Lyman, Ly-man, vice chairman of the state road commission, states: "Conclusions reached by the board are such "that the state road commission will expend ex-pend state money this year only in ' the various counties throughout the state where the county commissioners have made tho five-mill tax levy. In case any county falls to make this i levy in any of the precincts, such county will forfeit Its right to use any of the state money in that county coun-ty during the year 1911." |