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Show WOOLCROWFRSARE M CONFERENCE Several of the prominent wool-growers wool-growers of Weber county returned yesterday from Brlgham City, to which point they accompanied the Etate officials of the Utah Wool-growers' Wool-growers' association and the ' members mem-bers of the state board of equalization. equaliza-tion. A meeting was held in Box Elder county following the gathering of the woolgrowers at the Weber club yesterday afternoon. As in the case of the local meeting, meet-ing, the matter of a reduction in next year's tax assessment on sheop throughout the state was discussed. I According to tho statements of local 1 growers the assessment on sheep was twioc mat 01 mi; ij " "j taxable property In a majority of counties throughout the state. Nothing Noth-ing can be. done this year toward securing a reduction but the sheepmen sheep-men are conducting a campaign for ' 1 tho rpductlon next year. According to II. M. Rowe, who is taking a prominent part in the cam- paign, some of the members of the state board nre In favor of the pro- 1 posed reduction and others are op- : posed to it. It is for the purpose of securing a first hand opinion from tho growers that J. G. McAllister and Georgo A. Black, members of the board are attending these meetings lit the northern end of the state. Mr Rowe declares that the sheepmen men have not complained of the high assessment when big money was being be-ing mado from tho Industry, but during dur-ing the past two yearp, when profits wore small, the high levy became a hardship. He says that Weber county coun-ty has fared no bettor than other j counties of the state in this respect. |