The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-05-23
For the Hickman Courier.
CeEGrai end west EkensucAy
compares.
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! srArr Lrsr, May is, 1874.
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send you statement taken from the
Auditors report Of the average value OF
lands per acre, horses and mules in four
counties Of Central Kentucky, and -four
IN Southern Kentucky, for the year 1872
CENTRAL KENTUCKY COUNTIES
Average value Of land per acre in
jefferson county ....-.............-.S56 81
'@."F % horses .....--.....-.--... 80 10
OF mules ......................-. % o.
Average value OF laui POI acre ia
Nooatord county ..-................S2 -
Value Of koraes ......................... "a 0u
Of mules. ...-..... .-.............. 53 00
Average value Of baud per acre in
Fayette nty......................S46 i
'A'"e OF horses. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1850 % 80
OF mules ......... .--.........-...... 81 -
/ Average value of land per acre IN
bourbon county. ................. ..St5 -
Faine OF horses ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - -
OF ~uies...-...- ..........-.-....-.. - 80
SOUTHERN KESTucEY COUNTIES.
Average value of land per acre in
Ballard county ...........,....-.....@ -
! value OF horses. "a 90
OF mules. .......-...-... t6 90
/ Average yaluc Of land per acre IN
Graves county -.-.......--.-.....-...o > -
Value of horses OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 81 -
OF nudes, .......-. ........-.-. a. -
Average value OF land per acre ia
Fulton county .......-. -..--.--.-.....= 70
falue OF horses ---..-..---.--.- .-'---.--. 90 -
" Of mu es... .......... -..--.... % -
Average value OF land per acre in
Hickman county. -...... :..-.....S =
aiuc of horses. ...-...--.-........ % 30
of mules. -..-.......-. .-...-- 70 10
:. 3. a..
js5sT~ ~. s cite Jefferson and Woodfocd, are
greatly uuder valued or that the horses 7.
aud mules in the counties OF ballard, Full /.
ton, Graves md Hickman. are valued at .
more than they ere WORTH ! believe .
chat no one at all acqGajntei with the
history Of fine stock IN Kentucky, viii
deny the proposition that the counties of
" oodford, tayette and Bourbon, stand .
without rival in the production OF fine .
horses and mules, that they have a repu-
tation d wide az this continents, land .
Just ly tool for the speed. beauty, and ez-
celleuce of their horses. and the size and
beauty OF their males, is known through
out tie United States. And do not the
lands in these counties, and the county Of
J eti-rsou rate as the most valuable in the
State-snd Justly too They are in the
highest state OF cultivation Of any land
ia ,hc State with the best improvements
of every description, and they are valued
for taxation ns S55 ~ the highest. and F
S36 81 the lowest. / viii venture thc as
serti0n that there cannot DE purchased
this day, in either of these counties /
single acre Of first rate land for the high
est price put down ms the average value
per acre in any of them. Bu; lee "a re-
turn 60 tine counties of Ballard Graves,
Fulton aud Hickman, these counties make
no pretention TO raising hue stock. There
is not single thoroughbred race horse
kept q such) IN either OF thea. AID tue
mules are nothing oIt the commone5t
kind Of stock, two hesds, SO called By the
gentlemen stock raisers Of the far-Taurd
Blue Grass region) but then they are
valued for taxation al more money than
-he same kind Of stock ii THESE celebrated
stock counties. The hands in these coun- ,
les are valued for taxation otaa average i
IF - % the higbes,. Fulton; and 81 -
ser aero t1e LOWEST, Isisar-. -t." t4il
,ue-Ealt of al tAe aad Ia tac foa- c0un-
les ere this day ia pretty m1ch the same
tate that they were when purchased from :
he Indians, and there is not - single
arm IN tie four counties that is in a hrsi
lass sEte of Improvement, as compared B.
$ i,l lie four counties OF Central Ken
uchy- ] believe thai II may be safely
taxed tha- onc-half of the land IN tae
our counties can be purchased al less
han half the average price o. The whole
& are toid that our lands and stock are
-aiUed tto low, "a, unless the Ya.ue IS
our q viii have 90 te in
rensed- ana accordingly The valne Of laut
Ii Fulton county bass geea Increased, Tor
he year ls.4, nearly twenty per cent,
cGuuct state eXactIy1, md other proper .,
) ia something Ike tise same pTopogttpn- %
.oB = il aot apparclt tha. ~ tAe lands d.
e-ft--s.- lNtslAs&es = -s..Ta 49,, O
.
T the stare, and the stock in the same 4,
ianner, that il is possible there would
OF he so great detect IN the receipts az 81
be treasury, anu that the burthcn ot tax
tion would fan more evenly on ltl the T
lx-payers of the ktate, and II might be "
osslole for our STATE TO get on without :,
= increase OF the present rate Of taxa r.
ion, tevcu if the state IS cut OF debtl. ~
Ay we common sort Of farmers have q.
cen told fer some tinle past. thnt oIr 81
roua aud noble State aid not ove dol ~,
~, that her bonds were above prr, that n
here p u0re cash on hand than would n
Hy them al ana that, glory haiiaiuith, g.
ar taxes would be reduced next year cer-
ain. We POOR souls believed every word o
nd more We thought there mas good
inc ahead that the millennium could nos "a.
9 far Oft. And now we are told THAT the q,
ebt j. all paid; blt our noble STATE Is Is
cry hard mp for cash. aud thst the yutlA-
on Of property viii have 20 be increos-
q or the taxes raised. All of our high
own hopes have suddenly come 20 the
round a las, 1T IS a dreadful thing 40 g
ave orr State CUT Of debt, as we find 10
1T cost, Is our -axes are nearly double
ow what they were when we were III
abt, ard ye are told will have 10 be
1i-sd cannot understand VIII some
Jlomon euh5ntea .le