Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-08-18
TAXPAYERS PETITION.
Property Owners Of Salt Lake City
and County on tho Defensive.
they Ask that the Taxes he ncduccd
70 ner cent.-Ihe Payment OF
warrants. opinion Wanted.

Whom the County Court selcctmen,
sitting a. board Of equalization, had
got through their labors In that chan.
mel ehotlly alter 4 O'Clock yesterday
afternoon they took up county court
business.
The mort important matter was the
prtfeutaiion o. potiison ~ Attorney
q. %. WhluemofC, ON behalf Of some
col he largest property owners Of Sait
Lake CITY ANA county, praying for
a reduction Of % per cent on the total
valuation OF an aesesssblo property In
Salt Lake county. The petition was
referred TO County Attorney Murphy
with request that he iuTni6h the
boz arb with n written opinion on the
subject not later than Saturday even.
ing next
The d Cumeni reads M iollowt;
To the honorable county cour. Of Salt
Lake county, sitting rs board OF equal
izttion;
GrNrtEMEN.-Nou petitioners would
respectfully represent unto your honor
uu'o bodyi
j. Tint owing to tho fight agains,
aiINcr whicn has caused it 90 TALL In price
go pgf cent aud the general scarcity OF
mluey, all business IN prusiratOd.
That ln consequence OF such depfcs.
e.u To- silver and financial siriuEcnfv,
tUu value " real estate has steadily do'
rHuOi Tor tho pi,t throo months ia pro.
position us silver has mllCu, until today
ilIu cash valuation ~ all rOhl estate Dc 10
ltuy 30 per cent loss imam its assessed
NlIunton.
% Ihsi owing 10 tho same condition Of
UuHIfs the rented valuations OF stores
Iuu dwellings have been largely reduced,
lI,' sumu stores and many dwellings arc
vacant, greatly decreasing the Income
1ltlu tucn properly.
. That nom tue same cause many
fsuliu Will Doc unable Co pay the ,aNus
I.IUaUd unless some rullcf be- afforded
l.i ullos Of properly tor delinquent taxcs
,Il be much Increased.
Now, therefore, We respectfully ask
t.1t some means loo devised by your hon.
uadln body by which the taNCs 10 be paid
boo .Uls city and county be reduced - per
vgu. Asa precedent u this action on
yu.r pmt, we would respectfully call
,,ur attention To similar reductions made
HN thr county courts Of summit county
nul Weber county, Umh Territory aud
o. similar action in the state " Montana
.u.i elsewhere, aud in asking tho above
vu feel that We are iusuhpd in making
this demand, aud that tho taxpayers
uf sn,t Lake city aud county arc on.
uiud TO this reduction at your hands.
lhu petition n sipuud by J. r. aud
So n. Walker, r. Auerbach anu Bro,
George A. Lowe, Jennings Bros. lns
N,stuip"t, Hooper ettatts, Is. q. Ray.
UoulJ, Kelley d Gillespie. Lippman *
Wnllon,teiu, l.. J, Hillg, Harriet A
Partridge, Fred keslor, John Green,
Kate j. Farrell ami about thirty
Othcfe.
PAYMENT or WARRANTS.
The ulJolnod resolution was adopt.
cd!
Resolved, That the county attorney
DO called upon 10 tlle with the county
court written opinion In regard 10
the order In which warrants should be
paid By the county treasurer; that Is TO
tay, ahall the treasurer TO ftqu red %
receive from the county collector
warrants received by MIN for taxes
aud give credit therefor when ut tuch
time other warrants Of prior irsue and
duly registered arc outstanding aud
not paid for the want Of funds.
SECONDHAND should your opinion
TO that tho treasurer shall accept such
warrants from the collector, may the
CLERK be required 10 charge the treas.
ulrt accordingly