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Show GETTING THE HOT END OF IT Are property owners of North Sanpete San-pete getting the short, hot end of the county tax equalization admin-j istration? It is said that such is the J case. Farmers and many others are too busy to go to Manti to meet with the commissioners when in session as a board of equalization, consequently conse-quently some property owners are paying more taxes than they should. We are told that in many cases taxes are much higher in the north than in the south end of the valley. And even right here taxes on identically, the same class of property is much! higher on one side of the fence than on the other, as though it were a matter of assessing the men rather than property, according to the likes and dislikes of the assessor or his deputies. i If there are such inequalities of taxes between the south and north ends of the county as well as right here, the county commissioners should make it convenient for all property owners to meet with them when in session as a board of equalization equal-ization and adjust matters. The tax payers should demand that a property-holders' meeting be held in Mount Pleasant and Moroni for the purpose of establishing equitable valuations. This plan, of county commissioners holding forth in three or more towus as a board of equalization, is being practiced in some counties and should Ue in all in order that substantial justice may be done and busy people saved lime and money consumed in making a journey to the county seat. Last fall several candidates promised, prom-ised, if elected, to hold equalization: board meetings to at least three ' towns of the county and Mount Pleasant Pleas-ant was to be one of them. But no such meeting was held here this past summer, greatly to the disappointment disappoint-ment and cost of some, as they will rind when they come to pay their taxes. It is our right and duty to demand of our county employees the most convenient and inexpensive service ser-vice possible within reason. If we tail to do this, who is to blame if w-e t;et the hot end? We fail to see any good reason for not holding meetings in Mount Pleasant, Pleas-ant, Moroni, Manti and Gunnison, in order to make it convenient for all tax payers to confer with their commissioners com-missioners and adjust property value, val-ue, but we see many reasons why the county seat should be taken to the people of the county as much as possible pos-sible just as is done in Utah county. We have taken up this subject before be-fore and we expect to keep on fighting fight-ing for the rights and benefits of the people as we see them. Don't lorce the tax payers to expend unnecessary un-necessary time and money in order to present their claims, just or unjust. un-just. Appoint three or four places necessitating only short drives at most and none at all when possible and so serve the people who pay the .bills. |