The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1917-08-24
OCCUPY BACK SEATS
State Board Of Equalization Decides Not to
Proceed Further With Carbon
County Tax Bluff.

IN the NffuatuiNf OF tnr unNs I TAN
state board Of equalization appears
10 have shot It's wad'' 20 far as MAX
ing any changes in the assessment Of
coal lands In Carbon county goes. and
without any results whatever. Jo-
scph Riric. state auditor. rcprcscn-
tative Of the attorney generals office
and three members of the state board
OF equalization were In Price on we'd
nesday Of last week. Their mission
was fully told Of In Tho sun Of Fri
day last. n was announced with much
noise after their return "a Zion from
Price that mandamus proceedings
among other things were 60 be brought
In the state supreme court Co compel
the board Of commissioners of Car
bon county 30 do things as the state
board willcd.
Along with other baby talk put out
by the state board. the auditor aud
q. &. Daily of the attorney generals
office II the statement that one 81 the
county commissioners here IL an en-
ploye Of the Denver and Rio Grande.
another a boss at one of the mines.
and the third. Albert Bryncr. wholly
subacrvicnt 10 the coal interests be-
cause Of the fact that he IL In the
mercantile business locally and sells
much merchandise 10 the interests
that control tho mines. All OF which
IL the worst brand 90 rot dished out
60 supposedly guilibic people in
many a long day. The charges are
attributed 20 Gov. Simon Hamburger.
The sun. however. Il confident tho
governor u better Informed.
should Know Better
Commissioner Hamilton. as a mat
ter of fact. was not present az the re-
convened meeting of the commission
ers sitting as board Of equalization
on the ibth-Wodnc sday OF last week.
Albert iiryncr and Emil Oatlund com.
posed the quorum. In the ten or
twelve years iirynor has bocn iden-
titled with local mercantile house.
II Il doubtful II his firm has sold
all told-all ~ the fifteen or seventeen
operating coal companies In these
fields as much as two hundred dollars
In merchandise. The reason therefor
IL a most excellent one-thc compan-
les have stores Of their own In each
and every camp. They buy az cheap
~ In the wholesale markets at Zion
and elsewhere as do the bigger deal
ers AZ Ogden or Salt Lake city. Emil
ostiund operates a coal property of
his own. lie h AZ Independent AZ IN
hog ON Ice
Hut getting down 60 the milk In
the cocoanut." Saturday. Icrnid-Re-
publican perhaps c,anea 49, close To-
the facts In the Carbon county rum
pus. stirred up az Zion. ~ Il h posi-.
L. a.. - A I.aH
Gov. simon namberEor instructed
Dan n. Shields attorney general. 10
file mandamuH proceedings In the su-
preme court 60 compel the Carbon
county commissioners 60 assess coal
lands of the county according 60 the
law OF the state. u h very possible
that these instructions viii not be fol-
lowed out. Even " they were. u IL
said. the probability would be- that
not one cent would be added 60 the
state revenues, not Co speak OF sixty
five hundred dollars. the amount fig
ured on In the state boards proposed
valuation Increase or 1850. 00o.
Contcntions of the STATE.
The $1,000. 900 additional assess.
ment ON Carbon county coal lands
was based ON the actual value OF the
lands a. determined by Eoologists In !
the employ of the federal government |
The different sections. however. vary
In value. In some the coal II near the /
surface ana 81 manifest value. In
others u II deeply buried. and the cost |
OF working would be large. The trans |
portation facilities also vary widely"
Under the state constitution an coal |
properties purchased from the United |
states must be assessed az the price |
paid Co the federal government. and |
all state lands purchased from the |
state and containing coal must be ass
sessed at reasonable valuation. the /
figure 90 be fixed by biologists and l
expert appraisers of the government I
of the United States.
The governor and the state board /
are willing that three thousand acres I
OF land, the coal content OF which Is L
In doubt. should be assessed as graz
ing land, hut Insist that where there |,
IA uuRaIinu az IA. |