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Show f four or five-mill tax, calling for nn ex-I ex-I prndlturc of millions of dollars on a capltol building: That Is one reason he wag opposed to the one-mill tax, although he Is not opposed to a fixed amount of money, or a short-time tax, for the purpose of erecting a capitol, and anyone who will give this matter a moment's thought unless he be a Salt Lake real estate boomer will seo the fore of the argument presented by Mr. Eccles. . First, the plans. for a capltol should be drawn and then should be deter- I "mined the amount "of money required to build Biich a structure. That would, be busiuessllko and might appeal to the rest of the state; hut to Indefinite-ly Indefinite-ly state the amount to he expended by calling for one-one-thousandth of the ASSESSED value of Utah's real estate es-tate anil personal property for fifteen years to come. with a possibility of the valuations being doubled or quadrupled, quad-rupled, was a piece of frenzy finance quite unpareMeled in the history of colossal blunders In state affairs. OGDEN CAN GET THE STATE CAPITAL. Tho victory of Tuesday is proof that If Ogden wants the state capital, this city can obtain it by organizing and making a fight for 1L Country Utah is opposed to Salt Lake City. Tho smaller cities and tho down-state counties have been bolldozed until there Is a feeling of antipathy, which could be made to serve Ogden to good purpovc, If the people, decide they want the capital. A contest over the capital would prove exhilarating and might figure out a highly profitable venture. As David Eccles put it when he returned re-turned home and learned that $250,000 had been offered for the capitol, tho action appealed to him as somewhat of a joko, but he began to figure on the proposition and, to his surprise, discovered that fgdcn and Weber county, in the course of fifteen jears would have paid, under the proposed tax, about $250,000 in taxes. "And then,", he said. 'T was ready to Join in making the offer not only $250,000, but half a million dollars." ' Mr. Eccles says the proposition to tax the properly of the state one mill for fifteen years might mavc proved a real burden, and he cites the fact that the property aluation within the slate will soon reach the $200,000,000 mark, which will, according to tho constitution, call for a reduction. in the rate of taxation. That means that the tax rate will be reduced, but property prop-erty win be assessed at a higher valuation. val-uation. He points to Kansas, where the property valuation has been greatly great-ly Increased of late years and the ?ate of taxation reduced. With every advance ad-vance in valuation, tbe proposed one mill of taxation would tako on larger proportions until, if Utah were to tallow tal-low tho example of Kansas, the one tnlll might become the equivalent of a |