Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-05-15 | Page 4 | Cartload of Gold for the State

I CARTLOAD OF GOLD FOR THE STATE. Thf appraisers, after a lone and rarcful Im c-stlgatiou. hav reported on tlif Eccles estate. raising the value to something over $6,000,000 The figures are presented in this issue of The Standard and, though the work is only summarized, some Idea thereby may be gained of the labor required to gather the statistics statis-tics in the appraising of the property. prop-erty. Out of the vast estatp of David Eccles, Ec-cles, Mie state of Ttah will receive approximately $29f000, which, null-rectl.v null-rectl.v ,'s a verj heavy drain on Og Hen. and yet on next Monday n dele nation from Salt Lake will appear before be-fore our county commissioners to persuade them that to the $297,000. the count should contribute some S500Q o! more to aid the state in arranging ar-ranging for a fair this fall and in addition, ad-dition, hand over something for the state's exhibit at San Francisco That to us seems the limit of selfishiveEs. on the part of the state officials. If the commissioners grant the request, there will bp no funds available for a county fair Charity commences at bonne With the state dragging a wagon load of gold out of this community as n o per cent, inheritance tax, there should be a disposition shown to ease up In demanding more revenue but evidently there Is no mark however how-ever h'gh that would be high enough to meet the insatiable demands of iur neighbors