The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-17
SUSPECTED OF HAVING CASH !
TAX BOARD CITES WEALTHY
CITIZENS TO SHOW CAUSE.
Proposed to Charge Them For Taxes
On Money Which the Assessor Is
Believed to Have Missed.

Twenty-Five wealthy citizens, some of
whom are not bona fde residents of
Salt Lake, will receive in their mail
this morning notices citing them to
appear before the county board Of
equalization next Thursday afternoon
and show cause why they should not be
taxed for money on hand or deposited,
which the assessor has inadvertently
overlooked. The amounts range from
$1,000 to $4,000. and the whole sum ag-
gregates $3.50. coo. If the information of
/ the board is correct, a considerable sum
will be realized, since the taxes will be
at the rate of about $3.50 per $1,000 of
assessed value.
The names Of the persons cited and
the amounts on which they Will be
asked to pay taxes are as follows:
Samuel Newhouse, Thomas Kearns,
David Keith, Susan b. Emery, John O.
Packard, j. y. Cunningham, A. W. Nc
Cune, Alex. II. Tarbet, Henry Newell
James Ivers, $4,000 each; r. d. Millett.
S. A. Merritt, George Q. Cannon, Theron
GeddeS, George p. Holman, William
Hatfield, w. w. Chisholm, j. f. Bam-
berger, j. D. Kendall, w. A. Sherman,
p. I. Farnsworth, Ezra Thompson, Sl0,-
600 each; r. l.. Tracy, Glen Miller, f. e.
McGurrin, each $4,000.
A citation was ordered served upon
j. X Shaw, requiring him TO show
cause why the valuation of his terrace
on West Second South street should
not be increased from $4,000 to $4,000
for the improvements.
Yesterdays Reductions.
The board yesterday cut SIS, 455 from
the assessment roll on complaint of
forty-nine taxpayers showing excessive
or erroneous valuations.
as follows: b. II. Schettler, agent,
$1,000; E. F. Schettler, S1,515; Mary
Nixon, $1,000; Salt Lake Building x
Manufacturing company, 1919; ]. Sond-
helm, $lS2; Minnie ]. Snow, $3.50; Ma
hala Z. Ballentyne, $500; Charles Bald
win, $500; Emma G. Fenton, $3.50; James
Leach, $500; Andrew Mollerup, $3.50; c.
|. Moon, $3.50; W. A. Sherman, $3.50; c.
e. MonrO, S144; total, 0,190.
E. D. Swan secured a reduction in the
value of his building at 24S State street
from $4,000 to $4,000, and in twelve other
cases the values of improvements were
scaled down LOO in the aggregate.
The Provident Life & Trust company
was granted $500 off the value of its
buildings at 80 South West Temple
street, assessed at s., 300. and 500 from
a house taxed at $1,000 in lot 4, block "a,
plat B.
Personal property assessed to George
Klenke at $500 was abated. and S. All
cocks merchandise at Murray was re-
duced from $500 TO $500 in value Twelve
other personal property complaints
were adjusted at a loss of S4S5.
Real estate in Sandy five-acre plat
assessed TO LIE Grand Young at $3.50
was scaled down to $3.50, because it is
in a gulch, and Thomas A. Towards
acreage at Holiday was valued at $500
instead of $500, for similar reasons
w. L. Perkins was granted relief from
S615 on lot l, block 135, plat a, the new
assessment being put at S4S5.
The owners of the north thirty feet of
the Constitution building objected to an
assessment of S1S,670 for the land and
improvements, but on learning that the /
selling price asked is $4,000 the board !
refused to grant any relief.