The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1919-10-22
WOULD Shift THE BURDEN
OF TAXATION TO OTHERS
State Tax Commission Busy vbis
Week Hearing Protests Against
Land Value Raises

The members of the state Ia,
commission, meeting now in Carson
city, are hearing the plants of j.
number of state land owners who
are protesting the action of the
state board of equalization in rails
Ing the assessed valuations Of Ne
Fada lands, excepting these owned
by the Central Pacific railway com
pany.
The greater number of the pro
testants represent ownerships o.
pasture lands over the state, alfalff
lend owners failing OF representa-.
tion through disinterestedness ard
lack of organization. George II
chester, manager for the John "
freeman Company, at Saltwater
he lands of which would bear abou
one-half OF the proposed pastar5
land raise in this county, is present
County Recorder +. f. FRANKIE
has stopped the work of extendinr
the tax roll upon instructions from
the state tax commission. He re
oeiyed a telegram yesterday stating
that Up 10 that time no changes had
been ordered but that amendment
were being seriously considered.
The following from the Reno Ga.
=ette will prove interesting to tex
0ayers in this county making plair
= IT does the forces that are indus
triouGiy at work IN this state tryine
20 shift the burden Of taxation onto
the shoulders Of the other fellow.
Prepa ed to attack the legality o.
the acticn Of the state board o
equalization In establishing a hori
zontal increase in land Yaluations
for assessment purposes, representa-.
tiyes Of some Of the largest owner.
of land I'm the state left for Carso
today TO present a protest to the
state boards action and ask that the
horizontal increase on land and tbs
twenty per cent increase on all rura
improvements be set aside. says th1
Reno Gazette.
Want assessment Method
The prOtestants will ask that the
assessment method be followed in
fixing valuations and that the prop
erty be judgmented and properl!
classified.
The protestants take the position
that the valuations established or
cultivated lands is erroneous and
that it is too low on first and second
class Gu tiyated lands; that II is GU
of proportion and f1r too high or
meadow, pasture and grazing lands
The Protesting Owners
The protesting land owners wer,
represented before the state tax com
mission this afternoon by George B
Thatcher Of the law firm OF Hoyt
Norcrosg, Thatcher. W0odburn &
Henley, and Prince A. Hawkins o.
the law firm of Cheney, Downer
Price & Hawkins. Their clients in
olude Abel and Curtner Ellison
Ranching Company, Union Land ant
Live Stock Company. Utah Con
struction Company. Taylor and shee
Ian. Bliss Brothers, John G. Taylor
". G. Pitt, Garrett and Company
George RUSSELL T. J. Bell II. f
Dangberg and many others, includ
ing every rancher in Washoe county
the WashOe county ranchers hayinf
filed special objections based on the
grounds Of the protest and on the
additional ground that their water
rights now are being adjudieated ir
the federal court and that no in
crease in valuations should be ap
piled to their lands while the sui
is going on.
"To the Honorable, the Nevada Ta1
Commission:
Come now the undersigned taa