River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-11-07
STATISTICAL INFORMATION.

The annual report of the Secretary
of State for the fiscal year ending Sep
TENDER 30th, 1878, shows the total
equalized value of all property i'll
Wisconsin to be $413, 102, 976, lpon
which State tax of 1861 ,619,91 has
been levied and apportioned for the
year 1878, being one and sixty-five~one-
hundredths mills per cent.
The total equalized value of Pierce
county, us we have before stated, is
SO oil 900, making the State tax of
this county for 1873, S4,968.15. In
addition to this, the sum of ISL, 231.74
has been apportioned to Pierce county
for the support of her inmates OF the
Wisconsin State Hospital for the In
sane, and $50 for the support of one
inmate from this county of the Indus
trial School for Boys, making total
of sc, 251.89, besides the further sum
of 81 ,253.45 to be raised by certain
school districts due the Commission
ers of School and University Lands on
school district loans.
The total equalized value of St.
Croix county is $4.608, $3.50, making
her State tax 7,604.58; to this amount
is added $972.oo for support of inmates
of the Wisconsin Hospital for the In
| sane, $52 for the support of an inmate
of the Industrial School for Boys, and
$769.08 due on State tax for 1877 and
interest thereon, that county appear
ing conspicuous as the only one which
failed to pay the full amount of its
State tax for last year, making in all
SO, 1885, besides the sum of 81, 1850
/ due from school districts on loans.
The total indebtedness of towns, cit
| les and villages in Pierce county is
S14, 1863. 54;of st. Croix, $4l, la. Meth
er Pierce or st. Croix have any county
Indebtedness.
| The sales of real estate in Pierce
county for the year ending August 81,
i 1878, reported III accordance with the
/ provisions of law, show sale of So
/ q23 acres of land for the sum Of 1885,
1872. SO, an average Of about Sl0.84 per
acre. the average assessed value of
| which was $5.03 per acre, or forty-six
per cent. of the consideration express
ed in the deed; the per centum of the
assessed value of city and village pro-
perty to the consideration is fifty-three.
The nearest approach of the assessed
value of lands to the consideration CIV
en- in deed is found in the counties OF
Eau Claire and Kewaunee in which it
is lightweight per cent, the greatest
difference being in the counties OF
Brown and Manitowoe IN which it is
but fifteen per cent; on city and vii
/ lage property the highest per cent. of
the assessed value of the consideration
is in the county of Eau Claire-ninety.
seven, the lowest per cent. being in
Douglas--twelve In view of late de.
cisions of the Supreme Court upon as
sessments these statistics on real es
i tate sales are of especial interest al
: this time.
The reports of the acreage of grow
ing crops in the State for 1878 com
pared with reports for 1877 show al
J increase in the acreage of wheat, oats
i rye and flax, and a decrease in tn
: acreage of corn, harley. hops, potatoes
!. and root crops.
!. Abstracts from the assessment roll
). of 1878 in the several counties show
i total assessed value of all property il
& the State as fixed by the assessors, 0
S455, $40, 5s2.5 81.