Show IVA I 1 sometime since t this his paper voiced in ill in editorial the feelings of a lot 1 ii I citizens as well as the e aitor i ith reference to the fields felds v withdrawing ith drawing from the corporate in hu it A ot of parowan carowan city to alvid pay ii 11 0 city ity in ill which it was avas d tv IP a linoell alg ot the city govern ill t uld 11 id lie be lit it t to lir osame 1 ito Il latiol t represented by i n sin sill that thai di ers er have beun made in in our 1 sLa tuti s ivsich probably will materially alter the ahe attitude at it many people who w wie ie opposed to t tile fields with wilh d di twing 1 l t t c unanimous opinion of L lir w oali bials aswell as well as other citizens citi ens s hi tar lar at as we were advised that the levies for city purposes part the general fund and the reet and gand sidewalks levies were as n ah li as the law would permit and 1 c those le the present val nation yielded inadequate funds the question naturally presented itself li 11 1 i can cali the city citi be financed if the v illation of property subject to tax at in tor cil aih purposes is cut ampro innately nna itna tely in two with that question unsolved in ill n ni iti tanners farmers who are paying 1 a I lity i it tax on oil their farm lands for winch they are getting no benefits v e very much opposed to the i as Is withdrawing though it would vitally mean a reduction in their t t they hey idealized leali zed that unless the c i progressed gressed and dc developed their fieo fielo property could not increase in nue a as it hould so they preferred ij a c euy city ity tax to taking any CI cn inces on the cites retrograding to ac JCK K of funds to properly finance it ita improvements 1 Y recent perusal of the laws ena id i d b tile the 1921 legislature reveals i it a the maximum levies for certain 3 purposes were materially inc used so that instead of the maximum mum for cont igent expenses more c referred to as the general fuai being three mills it is now I 1 ti and toe tile streets and sidewalks lev was increased from two to li 11 mills milli I 1 ardful examination of this years A i ment roll for parowan city ti ri val eal that ours our total assessed kalua 1 i 13 is approximately and ii IP lt it about 30 of that kalua tron is represented by our field land a d the tools implements live stock which would be a ed with it if it were withdrawn fi 0 in the city taxation pur poses v t will oe seen then that if all tle tl e id withdraw which is only fair n iv w that pal pait t of them havethe have the i illation vitiation of property subject to tax tiou tor for city purposes will be more uan tian cut in two even then howe eer er w with ith the increase in levies which was made possible by the last 1 I gisla turc it will be possible to get practically cally the same amount of minroy inkey to finance our city sovern govern m nt it that we have been getting there will be no to saving to the community as a whole tt through rough tie the fia aills Is being exem exempted ped from city taxes but there will be a more just anzi all equi tille ile distribution of tte tle costs of city government because after all there is no good reason why field land two to five miles away should be taxed to police or to light this city nur to lin improve proe its street and sidewalks if it is possible for tile the city roper ti 0 do 40 iio tile the property pio perty which gets the bene benefits fiti should bear the burdens if we should ever wish to bond for a large amount then we would be handicapped by tie loss of the fields but that is the only serious objection which c can n be raised at this time |