Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23

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COUNTY ASSESSORS OFFICE,
The following work has been done In
the assessors office during the year
1899
Have drawn a new scale map Of og-
den city. and placed thereon grad
uatlng scale OF prices per foot. front
age, and acre; as well as the grade OF
farming and grazing lands therein and
value per acre. The whole amounting
| In value to =. 953.i93.
Made new scale OF assessment for
each school district In the county ac-
cordlng to location. climatic conditions,
| facilities for marketing. depth OF soil TO
hard-pan. water supply, ctc.
Written a complete new set OF blot
tera. and figured the frontage. area and
acreage OF every piece OF property IN
Weber county. about 10000 In all. on an
entirely new basis.
Graded all farming and grazing lands
In the county, 1870 acres, and COM
puted their valuation according to the
| county scale In respect to the following
grades and specifications.
| No. 1 Farm-The best land In each
school district. with plenty OF water.
and In the highest state OF cultivation.
Garden land.
No. 2 Farm-Average cultivated land
In enoh school district.
No. Farm-The poorest cultivated
| land In each school district.
No. orchard-1n good bearing condi-
tlon.
No. 2 orchard-Prlor TO bearing.
| No. orchard-Aftcr the trees become
| an remembrance to the ground.
No. Luccrn-with sufficient water to
| insure three crops each season.
No. Lucern-That will Insure two
crops each season.
No. 3 Lucern--where only ono crop r.
| harvested In a season.
| pa Ms.nI lnuA TINT n
not pastured would produce a crop OF
wild hay.
No. 2 Pasture-Part meadow. willow
and slough.
No. Q Pnsturc-Cannot be used for
anything but pasture.
Waste I.and-Mountain land. river
bed. gravel bars alknli and salt bar
rens. untlllable land that does not pro-
ducc grass.
The whole amounting TO Si.15I,5i.
Written the tax rolls OF Weber county.
containing 1910 pages; and afterwards.
at tho suggestion OF the county commits
sloners and Judge Rolapp. inserted the
description by metes and bounds OF
each piece OF real estate In the county.
necessitatlng about one-third more la
Dor In writing up the rolls than has
been required heretofore; and. when
taking Into consideration the fact that
II was necessary to use the compass
and protrnctor to determine the courses
and dimensions OF many pieces. II
doubled the work on the tax rolls.
Visited the residents OF the county
and appraised personal property 20 the
amount OF s.. 032. $50.
Canyassed the county and written In
duplicate the military list OF Weber
county containing 3.0Os names
Spent two weeks In the East Noun
tain ranges looking up transient sheer
grazing In this county numbering 6sOSC
head.
Attended the slttings OF the board Of
equalization, investlga gated and reported
on s5f complaints.
Visited Salt Lake. Davis and BoXelder
counties and made comparisons OF as
, sessments on acreage, improvements
and personal property.
, Looked up land matters for hundreds
OF personal applicants. attended 10 the
correspondence and all other business
required by law OF the assessor, Res
, pectfully, JOHN w. GIBSON.
THE sHERIFFs OFFICE.
The office OF county sheriff II one OF
) great importance 10 the public's wei
: fare and u man suitable to MI the
/ position Is not easily found. but when
the citizens OF Weber county elected
: MIR. G. ". Layne to the position OF
, sheriff they put the right man In tho
0 right place, Mr.. Lnyne before beinG
elected to the position he now holds
r was one OF our best city policemen and
|
he lis determined with the aid OF his
4 deputies, Joseph Bailey. Samuel Cave
r and V. ~. Hatch, to make a first class
K record for the sherlffs office as long AZ
, the public may keep him there, The
: following report VIII show the good
q record that Sheriff Layne and his depu'
4 ties have made during their first yea
e OF office
I During 1899 they have made eighty.
n three arrests, out OF these sixty hav,
c been convicted.
: Following Is u list OF the arrest,
q made.
= Twenty-Five have been arrested FOL
= burglary, have been arrested for va
G grancy. have been arrested for grant
:, larceny, have been arrested for petty
= larceny, have been arrested for house
Il breaking, have been arrested for muir
r der, have been arrested for battery
i have been arrested for assault with {
=, deadly weapon, l has been arrested FOL
= selling liquor without n license, 8 hay,
n been arrested for obtaining money un
+. der false pretense, 2 have been ARRESTED