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Show LITIGIOUS BOARD 1 AGAIN IS BUMPED 1 im COM PAN V WINH HtllT AOA1NHT iHfiufl vnhiiakonaum: taxation. I9H Plaintiff AiM-rts Hint Valuation Wn fSjsM "Unjuot, lllcgnl, Mnllrlnun nnd MbssssI I'rnuiliilcnt" nml Finding. Uphold . Ssssssi the Contention Comity Mny llnvc , HH Trtiuhlo With Itoml llii)rrx. rtssssH The trlnt or tho two suits Instituted IHI by ITnti Kuel company nnd Pleasant H Vntly Coal company against County sMsssH Treasurer llnlllnger to restrain the ', Mssssssi sale of conl properties by tlm county, SLssssi on me on for hearing before Judge Rsssssi Chrlstenson on Friday morning and !f HH lasted Just forty-five minutes by the .OsH clock The suits were brought to hnM flsssfl declared null nnd void the outrageous Bl assessments of one thousand dollars sssssssi per acre fixed by Commissioner kH Hharp, Hamilton nnd Randolph on sH three hundred and ten acres nf lands ' jiH occupied by miners' cottages In the j, assssssssi camps of the Utah Kuel company In i, H Carbon county. A more unjust tax f H Imposition has probably never been f H attempted In the county. The tax ' H Imposed If nwmlred to be paid would H hove been more than five times the ' H total rents derived from the premise HH aancssed and besides was In direct ssssssss! contrnventlon of the constitution of V Hl Utah which fixes the taxation value H of mining claims at the government j ssssssss! prlco plus n. tax on Improvements and H net proceeds of mines. This value ' flisssH waa raised nlna hundred and eighty dollars per acre by thn board presld- 1 rd over by the bull moose rommls- H .loners. ll During the last campaign tho false- S H hood was freiiuently asserted by nrv L H dent moosern that the company waa paying only 13,20 an airo on such j H lands, but when tho cases were called , ' HH before Judge Chrlstenson, Htanlty -H Price, who with County Attorney IH Kouta represented the defendant j county, admitted that tho lands were ( returned by tho company at twenty 1 J dollars per ut.ro as provided by the ' constitution and laws of Utah. Thn , "IH records were there to establish the ' '"sflsssH fact and thus one of the most pica- ?sssssssH yunli.li of nil Ilea circulated by the ' H party of bull moose nt waa nailed to H the cross In open court. Prlco blames Ihe defeat o the blacksmith adviser L VH of Sharp et al, tho lamented O. C. P flsllH Nelson, who, having departed from f Cl our midst, becomes n convenient dr- ) ' HH ponltory for such blunders of tho f WfSM iHiard as are exposed to da) light. Inssssssl Tho effect of tho decision will be to NsssssH rut down the 1914 assessed valuations uSpsbbbbbbbI of tho county approximately three MMB hundrod thousand dollars, and as the ' JHssssssl recent bond Issue promulgated by the Basllli present board was based upon a debt mKsssH limit Including such amount, It Is like- LpMsbbbbbI ly thot tha bond purchasers will do- '3sH cllne to accept the bonds as at loaat ' L9 six thousand dollars would seem to be j JrsBBBBsl voli because of the Issuo being about I IHI th I sum In excess of the amount au- SBbbbbbbI thorUed by law. iS9bbbH It Is probable that other coil com- J ' H ponies will now institute similar suits i rH as It Is understood thot tho Consolt- ? !flkl doted and other concerns paid similar J P taxes under protest awaiting the de- f jO M clslon In the actions Instituted by the ft t .MH Utah Fuel company. Additional no- T , VatH tlons will further complicate the nego- A iHsbbbbbbI tlatlon of bonds and tho ultimate de- I ifH clslon of controverted actions taken j 'bsssbH by the litigious toard will either result L VHssH In a more economical and business 3 ril like odmlnUtratlop of count)' affair S 'tsBBBBsl or In tho other alternative, bankruptcy f IM.H of the county. fjlM Tho pleadings tho companies pre- I 73 sonted asserted that the tax valuation r H was unjust, Illegal, malicious and ' WasBBBsl fraudulent. The findings of the court i I '-''M predicated on sued allegations thus I ! H becomes a Judicial determination con- f f stltutlng what the republican and f. M democratic parties of the county as- fi' . H serted during tho last campaign, that S -H the moo.era were not disposed to treat 3 "i H fairly tho corporate Interests paying , H the heavy taxes of the county and thot i'l such bu.tnesN methods as hud beet, jl ' JH adopted by them rould ultimately t j'kH I'unkrupt and ruin the credit of the ), j iiiunly. "H It Is worthy of being remembered ft ( j H thut no suoli pandltlnn over confront- -'WM ed Ihe bixpa)er of Cuibon county un- , jM til the experiment wu made with bull b H moose officials. j jH |