The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-31
TO BE PRESENTED.
All Want the Rate PIP Instead
of 4 Mills.
A MOST GLARING TRIBUNE LIE.
Ninety-five per Cent. of All the City's Business
Men Demand the Change-Will the City
Council Disregard IL?

The old pillars of the only church are out
against the projected improvements of the city,
They have got up q petition which is going
about begging for signatures, requesting q re-
duction in the taxes. The property-owners Who
have signed so far belong to the one sect and to
the past era They have remained at stand
still for 4 generation, and look with ilcon-
cealed contempt on the progress being made by
everything except the temple and that goes so
slow that 1t does not rasp their silurian nerves.
An old patriarch was on Main street yesterday
among The Morlnons and gentiles both On
that thoroughfare he met with scaht success
The petition was TO have the taxes reduced, but
his argument was based mainly on the repre-
sentation that the assessment was far TOO high.
He instanced cases where the property had
been acquired twenty-five or thirty years ago
for $50 to $50 rod, now assessed from 81 200 to
$1,000.
The Tribune FORCES ahead of its own
record, perpetrates the biggest and most
rascally lie of the year, and writes itself
down the regular Royal Arch, Past Master
ASS it was ever known to be, by referring
IN this strain to the monster petition to the
city council. now going the rounds for sig
natures.
A HERALD reporter was allowed to see
the petition circulated on Main Street for
business mems signatures last evening. If
there ever was public matter that was
neither Mormon, Gentle nor Jew, but all
citizens of every shade of opinion united,
it is found in this petition.
at has been signed with avidity,' said
the gentleman who was circulating it on
Main street. "Not more than four men out
OF all those to whom it was presented de-
clined to attach their names, believe the
signatures we already have represent from
twenty to thirty millions. There are thirty
or forty petitions being circulated through
out the city, and from all reports, when
they are presented TO the council on Friday
evening, 95 per cent. of the property own
ers of the city will have signed, asking the
council to reduce the tax rate from to %
mills.''
Here is the petition, as signed by bust
the signers ''belong to the one sect, and to
the past era:'
To his honor the Mayor and members of the
City Council of Salt Lake city.
GENTLEMEN-We, your petitioners, tax
payers of this city, earnestly petition your
honorable body to reduce the rate of tax
aton Tor this city to two and one half mills
on the dollar for the current year.
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sixty five (65) per cent. greater than that
of last year, and as an unusual amount of
Improvement is going on, which the citizens
have to pay for through the means of local
taXatlons, in the way of Sc werS, sidewalks,
WATER mains, sprinkling, etc. and.as there
is large increase in the territorial, terri
uorial school and local school taxes, the ag-
gregate OF all these taxes, even If the CITY
rate is reduced to two and one half mills
will be burden very heavy for many tc
bear: and any great amount collected from
the citizens would operate against the wei
fare of this city.
And, as in duty bound, your petitioners
will ever pray, etc.
The Union National bank.
Wells. Fargo & Co.
John Sharp, president Deseret National
bank.
Mccormick & Co., bankers.
Utah Commercial and Savings bank
John w. Donnellan, cashier Commercial
National bank
lions Savings Bank and Trust company
Bank of Salt Lake.
National Bank of the Republic.
The State Bank of Utah.
w. w. Ritter.
S.P. Teasdel.
Coin Bros.
Utah Stove & Hardware Co.
John Il. Winder.
} Goldsmith & Co.
Barratt Bros
The Walker Bros. Co.
John II. White.
| Z. Auerbach u Bro.
The estate of Samuel S. Walker.
! Joseph K. Walker.
H. B. Clawson.
. j. X, Walker, il.
John E. Dooly.
; White &; Sons Co.
George T. Odell.
n. A. Empey.
Spencer Ciawson & Co.
T. b. Plat
zou's Cooperative Mercantile Institu-
ton.
' Rudolph Alff.
=. w. Madsen.
5 Spencer & Kimball.
Little Roundy g. Co.
) G. h. Culmer & Bros.
@. Culmer.
i II. l.. A. Gunner.
2 w. H. Culmer.
I L. w. Little.
Coop Wagon & Machine Co.
: Florence &. Odell.
Consolidated Implement Co.
Coop Furniture Co.
: Clark Eldredge & Co.
5 Peoples Equitable Coop.
w. Langton.
! G. Il. Savage.
> Barton \; Co.
{ Sainsbury q Johnson.
r II. Dinwoodey.
+ Taylor, Romney Il Armstrong Co.
Grand Hotel Co.
Home Fire Insurance Company of Utah
} lions BENEFIT Building Society.
Cunnington & Co.
Hoock q Clawson.
Sears & Liddle.
Estate of W. jennings
Hooper & Eldredge.
. Estate of Mary a. Hooper. >
4 Mary w. Jennings.
Thos. w. Jennings. ta
S. Il. Marks 81 Co.
Salt Lake City Foundry and Mfg. Co.
o. A. Palmer.
M. Nadel & Son
Union Pacific Railway Co,
Joseph S. Richards.
H. j. Richards
w. b. Richards.
Arbogast q Trumbo Co.
George Arbogast ts
/, Hanak Il Sons.
[ H. Field.
o f. w. Simmons.
Hardy, Young g. Co.
Estate of Il. b. Margetts,