Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-11-11

| population Oshkosh, with lis lumbari,
/ terests; Racine, with its IS coo iphshi
tsnts aud unequsled agricultural imnle.
ment manufactures; and the cities of
WATERFOWL, Green Bay, snd Sheboygs7
/ sli located within this area.
In addition to the MANUFACTURING nor.
/ ton OF the State, the feitile fields of these
counties yield large proportion of the
CEREALS OF TIE STATE.
The average annual wheat yield FOR the
State is shown to be $1,000 600 busbaIo
and the average corn yield TO be 30OoA.
600 bushels. OF this, it is safe 10 say tb.,
tue seventeen counties above named nrn,
duce ne:rly 1900 5000 bushels of corr. or
nearly one. fifth of the total product Of The
State, and OF wheat nearly 100000
bushels, being nearly one.half the total
production of the State.
The total assessed value OF real estate
aud personal property ia these coualies is
1851 ,S5I341. The
TOTAL ASSESSED VALUE
Of property in the State of Wisconsin is
S43S. 97l 15l, leaving balance for the re.
naming forty five counties of the State of
SlS1Ol4 4l0, thus giving the seventeen
counties 81 per cent. OF all the taxable
property in the State. L. this particular
section of the State three special efforts
were made to fad out the real value of
property, and in collecting the returns,
care was taken TO prevent the sparsely
populated region in the Western and
Northern parts of the State, where sales of
property are comparatively rare, and val
uation difficult to determine, from lower.
ing or mere Asing the value of property in
the more highly civilized portions, With
in the seventeen Counties the report
shows that one.half of the
SALES OF FARMING LAND
for 1879 were transacted, and the aggre-
gate selling price of all these pieces o.
property was S6,206, 36J. the assessed
value of this property was 81 500 1874 BY
far the larger proportion of the sales Of
city and town lots took place within this
area, and may be explained by the fact
that nine out of the eleven cities of over
1900 inhabitants are located in this sec.
ton.
THE TOTAL SALES
of CITY and village lots in 1879 amounted
to 81 400 1921, the aggregate assessed value
being So 327,267 OF this amount no less
than s309794S worth changed hands
within the seventeen counties mentioned,
the assessed vs.ue OF this property being
50 306,T 1877. The percentage Of the as.
sessed value of the consideration received
is II per cent. for the State at large, and
70 per cent. for the seventeen
counties mentioned. The percentage OF
the assessed value TO the consideration re-
celvsd, or true vslue, OF town lots for the
State at large was "A per cent, and for
the seventeen counties more denseIy pop.
ulated precisely the same.
Each county in this report is worked
out separately from the inform alton OBJ.
tanned from the register of the county
and from schedules returned to the census
office by the assessors, bankers, brokers
and real estate dealers Of the respective
counties, and, as we have shown before,
by this method, the assessed value OF real
properly in this State increased from
$3447SS ,721 TO $500, 562, 59S, an increase
of about $157,753,ST.
The report says it is evident, sitter
careful examination OF all the schedules,
that recent
DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT
had not a little to do with increasing the
assessment rolls Of the State. The court
decided that unless the basis of assess
ment was the true value of property, the
tax levied on the assessment could not be
collected. In some counties, this decision
had the immediate effect of raising the
assessment, and as result, the real prop.
erty Of the State of Wisconsin is perhaps
assessed as fairly and honestly as that oil
any State in the Union. Certainly, the
methods of collecting the statistics OF
weslth, debt and taxation, and of register
ing the sales of real estate in Wisconsin
are
COMPREHENSIVE AND THOROUGH,
and II uoDlI Ia wall for many OF ht4