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Show no Spry Gives Figures on Tax Increases SALT LAKE. s-pt. :i I,, answer, to the statement of W. . Uarton,' treasurer of Salt Lake county, that property owners will pay lose state and county taxes this ear than in 1919. former Governor William Spry chairman of the Republican state Committee, last nigh'. Issued the t I lowing statement: I "A table of figures laiten from the, Salt Lake county tax records in the assessor's and treasurer's offices show, the follow inj? li tee: 1916. 7.2:.' mills; 1917. 7.00 mills. 1918. 7.40 mills; 1 '. 1 9 8 50 mills;" IS20 $.80 mills. ''The percentage of Increase under' the Incumbent admlnlstartiun are us, follows: "1916, to 1920. 35.73 per cent: 191 7 to 1920. 30.47 per cent; 1918 i. 120 J3.24 per cent, FJ10 to 1920, IT : . i (ent. j "This is exclusive of city and 'ii. trict school U U " In addition thereto, the Increase! Vn adseeited values on the same piecf s o( property from 19H to 1920, with no increase in th. actual values of the' same, have ranged a high as 30n per Jcntin some cases, or three times over. ; "Thus the tax increases in Salt Lake County during four years of Dsmocra-tjc Dsmocra-tjc rub-. 1916 ;o 191'n Including in- rewf iissfstmciit values, rang from 6.73 per cent to 315 per cent, Which) toe property owner has to pay 111 1020, (hereb) causing rents and prices gen-ttjally gen-ttjally to mount blglu r j ' People who will compare their ta j notice for the ynrs nam' d will find the foregoing figures act unite. They trc taken from the .S.iM Lake ounty, tax records In the assessor's and treasurer's trea-surer's Offices and controvert C.'ounl j Treasurer W V. Barton's statement th.u propert owners will pay less $tatc and county tuxes this year than in 1019 ' or for any years In the past.! In the statement Of expenditure -of tax ruoiu y gap Lake county, sub-I kitted to the taxpayer with iheli n -Cent tax notices. It is state that; " 'The state of Utah, the count of I Salt Lake, and all of the school dls- j (rlcts have reached their maximum l)avy, as allowed und- r the law, with 'he exception of the road tax of Salt I 1-akij county.' " |