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Show EQUALIZERS COME ALONG TO DIRECT IN TAXATION County Assessor lienlon Randolph and Commissioners Instructed In die Matter of Valuations By Hl Hammond, Bailey and Romney. Three members or tho stato board or Humiliation came to I'rlco Wcdncs-da) Wcdncs-da) Inst und held n meeting with the county rommltsloners, tho county assessor as-sessor and several or the deputies of Ihe latter Also with tho officials from Ihtier), the meeting at Prlco ho-lug ho-lug for loth Carbon nnd I'nirry counties. coun-ties. Present of the state board were J T Hammond or Salt tako Clt), William Wil-liam llnllcy or Nephl and rjeorge Itomney of Bmlthflcld From Carbon count) were Commissioners Hamilton and llr)ncr and Assessor llcnton Randolph, Ran-dolph, Commissioner Ostium! not being be-ing at the powwow. From Umory came Commissioners (llllcsplc, Allrcel arid taonard, Assessor Hanson, Clerk Peacock and Treasurer Otiymon Tho meeting lasted rrom 10 o'clock nf tho forenoon tn n llttlo after Ihe noon hour While It was not the Intent to direct Ihe ufllcers of the two iniintlos In every Utile detail, talks were made by tho visiting tax experts In those assembled as-sembled and the) wern told In a general gen-eral way what was expected of them and how they should go about ll, all or which Is covered In a book or Instructions In-structions Issued lor tho auldance of count) officials nnd many things In which were explained at length. The visitors during all their several talks nnd In reply to que ntlons propounded tu them made ll plain that all prop-ert) prop-ert) In nn) count) shall be given In to and In turn by the assessor nt n reasonable reas-onable rash value lleasoiinble cash value Is Interpreted to mean what properly of any kind will bring un tho market If put up for sale, l taut year Ihe assessing or coal hinds was tho great contention, nnd ntler Car)on county had placed an assessment assess-ment value nf fifty dollars an acre all nrnunil nn them the slate board of equnlliutlon was not satisfied and brought mandamus proceedings In the supreme court to nulllf) Ihe work of County Assessor llandolph. Tho decision deci-sion of Ihe court vvss it sort or double barrelled one In which both sldns claimed to havo gotten u llttlo the best of It However, that portion uf It holds which directs tho assessor hire after tu glvo In coal lands at their actual ac-tual value tho amounts paid the government gov-ernment and the state at tho times or purchase nnd on other clusses, such as grating lands, the value placed upon them by the state hoard This redounds. re-dounds. It Is said, tu Curbun counD's benefit as a whole. Under the s)tom of assessing tills )ear coal lands will total it very much higher sum than lost )cor, Just Ihe amount In the Increase or the percint-ago percint-ago Assessor llandolph was not yesterday yes-terday able to state l.lvn stock or all kinds will coma higher, too Sheep, for Instance, will bo about fourteen dollars it head and rango rattle fori). Other live stock will be In prnporljon Several of Ihe operating coal compan ies bought coal lands )ears ago at ten dollars nn acre and up, whllo others since have paid as high ns three to four hundred dollars Orating lands uro owned as low as a dollar and a hair un acre, and rrom this up tn twenty New mines and Improvements Improve-ments at Ihe mines during the past )car will also swell valuations and net proceeds of .mines as well. Coal londi are to be assessed at the price, In every ev-ery Instance, paid for them. tast year Carbon county's total assessed as-sessed valuation was around fifteen millions of dollars. This year, says Assessor Ilundolph, ll l expected to exceed twenty millions In 1117 all Ihe property of the state of Utah, for taxnhlo purposes, ran five hundred and nine t). three millions of dollars. This )tur tho figure reached will be In excess of six hundred millions. With un ussessed valuation or twenty millions mil-lions or dollars tuxes should bo lower this prcsont ear than last, but It remains re-mains to be seen how the commissioners commission-ers will look at tho matter when they fluully make up tho estimates for revenue rev-enue needed Again, thu statu Is pounding ull Ihe counties on tho back, as It were, for mora mone) Tho war, road work anda hundred other excuses ex-cuses nre given fur tho revenue that Is de manded At the conclusion of tho milling at Price with the Carbon and Kmery county officials Oeorgo Itomney went nn to Urand tount) the afternoon of Wedmsda), while Hammond and llalley relumed to V.lou b) delated train during the uv tiling All expressed ex-pressed themselves as plcused with the deliberations ut Price nnd gave utterance ut-terance to tho Idea that it better feeling feel-ing and understanding nnw exists ua between tho Carbon of fit litis und the members of thu statu hoard, und that much good tn all Interests, lomerned will come rrom thu meeting In vlow ot recent Montana supreme court docislous It nut) bu thut litigation litiga-tion or considerable mugnltudc will follow this year's assessments un the part or the coal companies as regards land mid net output of mines. Tho law as Interpreted In Montana has speulal bearing loiull) und likely Is to he Invoked |