Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-03
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EsAxsFrrtn, Aug. "a, 1885.
Kessrs. Reits . Hanea:

AcSSFS' 4hSttN q Auf&eS.
In your card in today's Journal, adj
dressed to me, you say" Your OHeF Of
$55, 900 fer the property embraced By ~
lin our valuation at $500, is again
hereby accepted An immediate dsliv-
cry is desired" Embraced BY usl =
Oh, cnoi that won't do That would
open door for Misunderstanding, and
might defeat the trade. Your personal
property appertaining to manufacturing,
taxable for city purposes, valued By you
in your schedule at q, 200, is what ]
propose TO buy for $4,000. You may
deliver the property at once; the money
ia ready. sl3 s.a s-iuoiIol ga
"Again accepted" l don't under
stand that, either. / never heard of
previous acceptance. When Mr.. Reits
was before the Board Of Equalization,
in answer to It's summons, /, being in the
Chair in the temporary absence Of the
Mayor, stated to him that his firms re-
turn Of personal property appertaining
70 manufacturing was complained Of;
that the Board thought it was worth
more than il was returned ct. He said
be thought not remarked that all the
other foundries returned greatly larger
amonnts o, and fhatsurely Reitz a Haney's
engines, boilers, and machinery, includ-
ing turning Iathes, drill presses, planners,
patters, their tools aud materials. iron,
coke aud co Il, and their Manufactured
articles and stocks on hand, lall of
which were taxable for city purposes as
PERSONAL prope were worth more than
q, 200 The subs arcs Of bis reply was
that he thought be understood his bus.
ness better than we did / said L
thought knew something of il, at least
enough to- offer him $4,000, for the
PROF . ~ in question He said be wou d
take u, but added that be would see bis
partner aud il he consented i should
have the properly. Before he left iu~
creased my of r to $35, geo. And ]
heard notbtng further from him on the
subject TIL / read yest-rday's Journal
This was the only thing that ever oc-
Cured between myself and the firm Of
Reiiz & Haney, or any member Of that
firm, that had any iIkent 80 20 an ae-
ceptanee OF my offer. / certainly did
not uadefs and that TO be an acceptance.
There was 20 Misunderstanding between
Mr. Reiiz and myself, at that time, as
10 the proper ~ embraced BY the o6fer I
dpnit sre thbL a 70 10 any chance for /
Misunderstanding now. 97 a~- ga
~ Your foundry stands apon sixteen lots |
in block No. 9 OF lSfockwelfs enlarge
ment Of the city They are assessed on |
The city books at $500 The improve.
ments on them, foundry, shops, dc are |
assessed at $500. Mr.. Reiiz knows ali |
about this, for be has examined the fg-
ures. Not only so; no has complained
of them. BE and others have called q
public meeting to demonstrate against /
them Yet, while, in my opinion, the I
valuation put upon the lots Is not too l
large, twice that at which the improve
ments are assessed would not, i assert,
put up the naked brick walls. Surely,
gentlemen, you do not claim that your
engines, machinery, and other property
above enumerated, are included in thess
assessments You, with other tax-pay.
ers, all know that the city always, and
the State and County till last year, be-
IefSI Asseosrc al enBlnesj m6cnlnS1y,
&c, as personal property. Then this
is either in your return Of
e5 200, or il is not assessed. You can
Jake either horn Of the dilemma you
please. If It il embraced by you in the
D., 200 have bought il for $S5, 900, and
an ready TO receive it and pay the money.
r. it Is not embraced In that sum, il Is
not assessed at all, and ought to be. =
Why, look ye, gentlemen, aow unfair
! thing this is. You pay on your six
zen lots e5, 400 on your foundry, &c,
s4500, on your personals appertaining
o manufactures 81, 209; making together
el6 100 for your foundry and all proper
y connected with IL, while pay for
imilsr properly on $4,000 There is
no man having the slightest acquaints
lnce with the two establishments
hat don't know that this is not
light. gag9.s dgaoldi iaq m Drk5
Expecting TO hear from you as to
the property have specified is
Embraced or is not embraced, am,
81 'lsF Very respectfully, Rel 70
'asHz3 isd WILLIAM HEfLMxs.