The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-26
IOtaI levy on city property
School Levy Fixed.

The last of the rates. the city school
! levy, was fixed yesterday after Audi
/ tor Wood, under the direction of the
| county commissioners had made an
apportiOnment of the assessment of
railroad, telephone and telegraph prop
/ eTty to the city and to the several dis
trictS in the county The appOrtiOn-
ment was made also on an opinion from
the county attorney that the assess
ment of the property of car companies.
such as the Pullman company should
be allotted to the several districts and
to the city. instead of TO the city en-
tirely, as was done last year. When
the appOTtionmpnt Of property assessed
by the state eQualiza ton board was
completed it showed a total valuation
OF taxable property in the city Of $685.
692. 3lS and 81 $50 746 in the county out
side Of the city, or SAL, 043, O64 for the
entire county. This is a gain Of So
lI4695 over the taxing values of last
: year.
There was a protracted discussion
yesterday afternoon in the county
tTeaSureT's Office when Treasurer Dale
and County Assessor EIdredge fixed the
rate of city school tax on the basis of
the school board s needs. as shown in
/ a TeQuisitiOn last Nav The IS mills
/ agreed upon as the levy includes Is
mills for the building fund. half a mill
each for sinking fund and interest on
bonds and mills for maintenance Of
the schools and to repay an overdraft
Of $50, 600 to run the schools the full
term last spring.
During the day Mayor Thompson ap-
proved the councils action of last
/ Tuesday in fixing the levy for the city's
needs al So mills
While no county school tax was lev
led upon property in the city last year.
the rate for this purpose last year in
the county outside the city was mills
This year the rate is p mills on all
property in the city as well as on the
outside. and the amount to be raised
viii be $4,000 as against $4,000 last
year, but this time the city school fund
Will share in the distribution of the
| revenue thus raised and still the cCun-
( try school districts will get as much
as when the tax was upon themselves
( only
How the Taxes Grow.
Some comparisons of the valua tions
| and the tax rates for the past three
/ years may be of interest in detecting
where the increased tax burdens orig
l mate. In 1899 the total valuations were
! $50 SOS. 755, of which $50. $50 204 was in
/ the city in that year the levy for
) state and state school purposes was 8
mills, the same as now; the county
rate was Al mills; the city rate, IS
mills, and the city school levy, 50
mills, making an aggregate levy of 27-9
mills. In 1900 the assessed valuations
| in the city increased to S31, $50, 210 and
/ the valuations in the county to s6,917.-
/ $50 from S6.20S, 551. This year a net
gain Of three-tenths OF a mill in the
total levies was made, the county in
/ creasing its rate from 40 mills to As
mills and the rate for city school pur-
4 poses being reduced a tenth of a mill.
/ This year. with a gain of S2174,9 65 in
/ valuations in the county, of which sum
J 81 742. 1OS is the increased valuations in
/ the city, the tax rates have climbed
/ up from PSI mills last year to 1922
mills. The state levy remains the
! same, but all the other funds have
/ called for more money from the tax
payers. The county rate has been in
/ creased half a mill, the city school levy
/ four tenths of a mill, and the city rate
/ for general purposes 1 mill. Adding
/ the county school levy of p mills.
which was not in effect last year, gives
/ the increased levy of Al mills.
Within the next few weeks the coun-
I ty auditor will have finished cOmput-
/ ing the taxes, and then notices win be
/ sent ont