The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-17
The COUNTY VALUATIONS.
State EqualizerS Propose a
Five Per Cent Increase.
THE DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CoM-
MISSION OPPOSED TO IT.
VIII Meet Today and Formally Pro-
test Against the Proposed In
crease-Routine Business Dis
posed OF BY the Commission.

The county commissioners met yester-
day afternoon, and when communlca-
ton from the state board of equalization
was read, proposing an increase in the
county taxation, grief settled upon their
brows. The epistle from the board read
this wise:
Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 10.
To the Board of County Commissioners
and to the Auditor Of Salt Lake Coun-
ty, Salt Lake City Utah:
Gentlemen-You are hereby notified that
the board of equalization, after receiving
returns from all the counties of the state,
and after carefully considering the assess
mlent OF all the property in dne state. for
the purpose of making ulle assessment OF
all the property n Salt Lake county con-
lorn TO the assessment of the property
IN the other counties OF the state and tor
tine purpose of equalizing the assessment
OF property throughout the state, propose
to increase the assessed valuation OF all
the property in your county for the pur-
pose of state taxation for the year 1897,
by adding thereto 5 per cent of the val
uatlon of the property as assessed by the
county assessor and as the same appears
on the assessment roll of your county of
this date.
The BOARD Will consider all objections
which may be made to such increase at
its Office In Salt Lake City on Tuesday,
Aug. II, 1897, at p. IN.
By order of the board.
J. ]. THOMAS, Secretary.
The effect of this. if enforced, is evident
on its face. 1t will simply increase the
valuation on each peace of property D
per CENT Individual tax payers can easily
figure out just what the increase would
be in each case by adding the per cent
TO the valuation as it stands now.
OPPOSED TO THE RAISE.
Commissioner Hall CROPPED for light and
u f1aa n n
crease in the taxation. Armstrong was OF
the opinion that the courts would not
stand the raise, even il THE commission
was willing.
The commissioners concluded finally to
send for the data used by the equalization
board in arriving at their conclusion. This
was received later in the afternoon from
Secretary Thomas, and the commissioners
toiled over it during the rest of the day
a meeting will be held this morning at
IL O'Clock, a which a. protest against pAe
prospective elevation in the, taxes is ex-
pected to be formed.
MINOR AFFAIRS.
The sheriff sent in a report to the COM
mssioners stating that he had tnvesti-
gated the character of the house Kept by
Mrs N G. Paffin in the Thiede saloon at
Murray, and thought that a license ought
to be withheld. 1t was decided by the
commission TO withhold the license and
to refund the money paid in at the time
the application was filed. with the amount
due on the time the saloon has been open
this term deducted.
A report was received from County AT
toruey Van Colt, in which he stated that
the claim of the Grant Marble company
of Milwaukee was covered by the deei-
sion of the supreme court which made the
Indebtedness of 1886 valid. The opinion OF
the county attorney was ordered filed
The Game & Hooper company sent a
letter to the commission offering to insure
the county for damages brought about by
elevator accidents for s35 per year. The
proposition provides that the claim Shall
not cover more than $1,000 for injuries 10
one person and not more than $4,000 for
any accident il which more than one per-
son is injured.