Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-06 | Page 4 | How Taxes Rest on the Poor |

Type	issue
Date	1916-01-06
Paper	Ogden Daily Standard
Language	eng
City	Ogden
County	Weber
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	How Taxes Rest on the Poor
Type	article
Date	1916-01-06
Paper	Ogden Daily Standard
Language	eng
City	Ogden
County	Weber
Page	4
OCR Text	Show H HOW TAXES REST M ON THE POOR. 1 Box Elder county has a peculiar Hl system of assessing property for ta-c- H ation. For many years, a big percent- H age of the range land in the north- Hl western part of the county was held Hl by the Crocker Estate. The assessed Hl value per acre was almost nothing. H Then the land was sold and much of 1 it was transferred to dry farmers and prospective dry farmers with small resources. Immediately the assessed value was jumped from a few cents per acre to $2 per acre. This is one of tho discriminations which causes unrest among the small property owners of Utah. The people least able to help maintain the cost of governmont are called on to carry a load wholly out of proportion to their possession of material resources.
Reference URL	https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6572dx9/6819581