The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1868-04-17

or the dogs bate a wonderful taste and judgment
in selecting none but the best, for then they rise
70 81 "a each. Hogs not slioats, are down al 50
each, In this county. This is really low for hogs,
when We remember that they brought from 81 TO
SS per hundred pounds all winter. The average
in the State is Just double that Of Wood County.
II would seem that others have higher apprecia-
ton Of the value Of the grunier than wo Of this
county so VIC might run through the list, but
with one other article VIC will dismiss this branch
Of our subject We refer to watches. Wood
County returns but 46s watches one for about
every 30 inhabitants, at an average value Of $40
each. It might be very properly said. our people
do not value time very highly. We instance
these values to show that the present Tax Dupli-
cato Is no fair Indication Of the value Of property
of any class, for tbe same depreciation pervades
the entire list of taxable values, and we apprebend
the matter is far worse with tha class Of property
which can be safely hidden away. We submit TO
our people whether II is not far better, more cred
table, not to alude to the morality Of the custom,
10 list our property at its fair selling value, par
tculnry so when our State taxes are small, and
growing yearly less-scarcely, now, seventy 1--WE
cents per head for every iuhabitant Of our county
1t will bo a wonderful incentive TO intelligent
wealthy emigration, when we can say our taxes
are only one per cent. on the fair value Of our pro-
porty, instead OF four per cent, as now, on the
nominal value; that our lands are worth $50 per
acre, instead Of SO or 81 that our crops, by full,
instead of diminished returns TO evadc taxation)
show the fertility of our lands and the industry aud
skill 0f our husbandmeu. With full four hundred
thousand acres of as rich land as the sun ever
shone upon, we report only onc-eighth of 1t under
| cultivation, aud producing, according to the re-
turns, very mcagsrly-cOrn lands scarcely aver
aging % bushels to the acre, potatoes about 80
bushels, hay little over tun, and wheat hardly
7 bushels per aero. What are the fair deductions
! from such returns That our lands are poor and
our husbaudry indifferent, neither of which we
apprehcnd are true. 10 arises mainly, If not en-
trey, from this false and injurious system Of re-
turning property for taxatiou There is no article
of nErcu of which three, if not four, times the
quantity returned for taxation can not, by proper
cultivation, be raised, per acre, our rich lands
by this system Of returns, we are adver tisng the
stcrilty Of our soil, and not its fertility.
| The day Is not very remote when the county Of
| Wood can be made the gurien of Ohio, when its
lands will be worth full 500 per acre tho pres
cnt value of lands Of similar quality in the valleys
| of the SCiutn and Miami. Yet, this time may
indefinitely postponed by proclaiming to the world
that our lands produce but seven bushels Of wheat
| per acre, and scarce that value in hay. What
| matters IL 10 us If other counties make the same
| disparaging returns The trile gained in saving
n small sum from State taxation costs us five
! times, yes, twenty times the amount in reputation
and credit, which Is quite rs essential and valua-
ble to the character of lands rs II is to tho in
dividual We earnestly implorc our people to help
inaugurate n system Of Taxation by listing proper
| ty at its fair selling value, remembering always,
that in all the relations Of life, Honesty is the best
policy. 1t enrichcs pecunnrily, gives clear con-
sciences aud sound sumbers, and viii, by lis eN-
ample and influence, leave to children a richer
and better heritage than lands on wealth earned
by cvasOns or unfair dealing.