Show BO ABU OF E U AL I 1 TO inspection TOUR in a meeting held wednesday of 0 last week the state board of equalization decided on a new plan for meeting with the county taxing officials and will proceed to carry it out beginning october 17 next this is to visit and meet with the county commissioners and the county assessors particularly between now and tile the time that the field work of assessing property in the state begins I 1 hitherto such meetings have been held while the work of making the annual assessment of property in a county was on or just n as s it was being completed conferences at sue such h times enabled the state to have some of tile the work done by county assessors corrected where necessary the idea in meeting with these officials in the fall of the year is to have the work done on the proper plan in it other words that ahe best time to correct an assessment of property in a county is before the assessment is made the board also decided on visits so far as possible to each county seat in the state rather than have the county officials como come to salt lake or to some central point even for a district age ane plan is for the state and cou county lity officials to get gel their feet under the same table in each particular county and there to study and work out so far as possible the problems peculiar to that county I 1 it t I 1 ia hoped that by this means not only tile the heads of county departments but bi it also their chief assistants will be at the series of conferences and will be able to get firsthand first hand information is as to the problems of the state assessment as the state board sees thorn thefil and also tle the problems of e each ach county counts according to the plans tile the counties that are least readily accessible w will ill be visited early in the fall while there ther is still promise that the roads will be in it good condition later the counties more readily accessible by automobile or railroad will be visited the board hopes to be accompanied on these trips b by mark tuttle state auditor or if that is found to be impossible by some representative of mr tuttles office who will assist in determining solutions to problems presented in each county the itinerary has not yet been worked out in detail As plans now stand the board will leave salt lake on october 17 and visit first the southwestern tier ot of counties all lard beaver iron and washington thence the party will cros to kane kana county and so up tile the central tier of counties through garfield wayne pluto and sevier to San pote from there the wasatch range will be crossed to emery and carbon counties grand san juan uinta duchesne and wasatch counties will come in turn on such a trip it Is contemplated that the board will be absent about four weeks stops ot of a day or a day and a half will be made in each county in order to give opportunity for a thorough discussion of local problems the board will also on this trip not be forgetful of its own jurisdiction is as assessor of mining properties and of public utilities and will visit such utilities in each c county visited in iron county the board may mav stop a comparatively lo 10 long ng period to investigate the coal properties there and also to view th t lip iron deposits in the vicinity litY 0 of f iron |