The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-28

The following blocks in plat A, Salt
Lake City survey, were cut in value 10
per cent: Blocks l, ,, 15 IS, Il, Is, %.
"a, IS, 90, SC, 81, 43. A, As, 46. AZ. 10. II,
u, 10, IA, 10, 20, 100, lis, rs, 12O, 1G1,
116, 119 and 1913. The value of these
blocks average $4,000 per block, and
for the 33 blocks the 10 per cent cut
aggregates $50, 500.
Blocks 134 and 135, plat A, were re-
duced 20 per cent. The value of block
ia is SIG, .05 and Of l35. $1,000, making
the amount of this particular reduction
So. 759.
In plat B, Salt Lake City survey,
blocks &c, 81, 49, 80, 40, 40, So, 3d. 80, %,
81, &c, "a, %, %, q, 20, 10, IS, II, 10, So,
IS and = were cut in value 10 per ce---.
making for the % blocks, on an average
of 600 per block, an approximate
total decrease of SIS, 900.
In 2S individual cases real estate was
reduced in value TO the total amount
of 1880. OF these the principal ones
were r. T. Burton. in block &c, plat A,
reduced from $4,000 to $500; and
Broadway alley, from sI0,500 TO s., $50,
one-half assesSable each TO Spencer
Clawson and the Bolivar Roberts es-
tate
REDUCTIONS TO BANKS.
Capital stocks of banks were adjusted
as follows, the aggregate Of reductions
in this class reaching S90150:
Bank of Commerce, 1000 shares, as
sessed at $50 per share, reduced TO $40
per share, or $4,000 for the whole
Utah Title, Insurance and Trust Com
pany, $50 shares, assessed at $561 per
share, reduced in the aggrC gate from
$84. $50 to $25, 900.
lions Savings Bank and Trust com
pany, 1000 shares, assessed at s22 per
share, reduced to 81 per share, or
$34,00 for the entire capital.
National Bank of the Republic, 5000
shares, assessed at $50 per share re-
duced to $57 per share. or frcn $780, 900
to S171.OO
Each of the banks named, however,
pays taxes on large holdings of real
estate, the value thereof being first de-
Quoted from the capital and surplus of
each bank respectively.
IMPROVEMENTS REDUCED.
A total of sS9,415 was stricken from
the taxed value of improvements in II
instances, the chief ones being the fol-
lowing: Dolly black, from $780, 900 to
$4,000; Realty building, from $4,000 to
$1,000; H. Harris, from ST.. 500 to S12, 800;
Salt Lake Ice company property of the
National Bank of the Republic from
$11,7 TO $500; ]. Z. Dolly, residence.
from $500 to $4,000; Priscilla p. Jen-
nings, from $4,000 to $500; Mulloy G.
Paul, from $1,000 to $1,000; Merriam &
O'Meara, from $14,eOO to $4,000.
AND Personal
PROPERTY.
Cancelled mortgages were stricken
from the rolls as follows: H. c. NJ l.
80, $1S.5S1; Samuel Mcintyre, $4,000;
Utah Nursery company co., 1906;
Minnie Himmah, $1,000; George A. !
Lowe (5)s S4,n4; j. f. Paine, trustee, |
$500; John w. Morehouse, $1,000; II. |
I. Duke, 81, 400: NJ. II. Coffin, 500; C. J. !
Hodge and 7. w Buzzo, 1857; u others, |
2 206. Total, S62, 1873
IN 6! cases personal property was |
in value SAL $50. The chief |
)enefciaries were merchants. They |
we're: Salt Lake Ice company Drop |
.rty owned by the National Bank of I
he Republic). S14,550; Walker Brothers !
Dry Goods company. from s104, 300 to
$4,000; Utah Stove & Hardware COM
amy, from $4,000 to $17,550 r. X
Thomas Dry Goods company, from
rs. 600 to $4,000; p. w. Madsen, from
10,200 TO $4,000; Harris Furniture &
;arpet company from s15,OSO to S14,58O
THE CLOSING ACTS.
The board intended to raise the
'alues assessed against Stephen Hays,