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Show W TAXES INCREASED I OVER 1 5 PER CENT H City Commissioners Put on an Extra Tax of Two Mills WMch is B Said to be For Water Purposes City Levy This Year H Will Be 14 Mills. B Tno ax lcvJ' f'xcd by e city com- ImiBsloners for tnls year will Increase taxes for city purposes over 15 per cent. A special water tax levy of 2 ii mills is made. Increasing the tax that H' 'much over last year. Just what the fl I special water tax Is for Is not made 8 k I known, but it is undei stood In a gen- uj, - eral way that It is for the purpose of f"jR - ' handling the reservoir project on the iSMf . ' South Fork. The levy follows: H To defray contingent ex- jU penses 5 mills SH i Improve and repair streets B and walks 5 mills jB Construct and repair sewers H and drains l.C mills B Special to supply water and HF conduct waterworks ox- Bi tension 2 mills H. For public library -1 mlllb B Total , .14 mills j The rate last year was 12 mills. H In explanation of the action of the H city board in levying the extra '2 mills Hj tax, Mayor A. G. Fell states that the M city Intends to use the fund lalsed from the special tax In the building B of the South Fork dam at Cobble I Creek. M Tho mayor says he cannot state rfl. Just when operations will be-begun, jjjHf but that he anticipates that as soon H ns legal entanglements can be jB straightened out some stops will be Hr taken by the city toward the con- Hj structlon of tno dam. M The city engineer has been Instruci- m ed by the commissioners, under the m advice of tho legal department, to pro- test agninst tho filings of the Ogden H River Reservoir company to the wa- ters of South Fork. |