The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-08-12
PROPERTY IN ALEXANDER COUNTY

The following is statement of the prop
erty assessed in Alexander county for the
year 1881 as returned to the auditors Office;
One thousand, two hundred and seventy
two horses at $3s,30S; average valuation
$50 10; 1900 cattle al $22,SSO, average
valuation 1875; 72l mules and asses al
$23,SS9, average valuation, 1913; S48
sheep at $949, average valuation SLIP;
5,793 hogs at $s,057, average valuation
$l.05; 43 steam engines, including boilers,
at $1,000, average valuation, $3Ol37;
fifty zone fire and burglar proof safes, at
81 145, average valuation $42.O6; sixteen
billiard, pigeon hole, ETC., tables, at $640;
average valuation $4,000; eight hundred
and twenty-five carriages and wagoi1, at
$l7,022, average valuation, $2063; five
hundred and fifty.seven watches and clocks
valued at $6,O16, average valuation $796;
four hundred and sixty-cne sewing and
knitting machines valued at $5,l44,
average valuation, $l1.l6; one hundred
and five pianos, valued at $685., average
valuation $72.62i twenty four melodeons
and organs, valued at $637, average valu-
alton $2654; franchises, none; royalties,
none; patent-rights, none; twenty-six
steamboats,, sailing vessels, ETC.. valued at
$35, 400, average valuation, 81 ,86l.54; total
valuation of the property thus far enumer-
ated, $l79,621.
Of other property there is in Alexander
county; merchandise $l43,142; material
and manufactured articles, $3.50; manu-
tacturers' tools, implements and machinery,
$8,267; agricultural tools implements and
materials, $10,109: gold and silver plate
and plated ware, $3.50; diamonds and jew
elry, 1907; money of banks, banker, brek-
er, etc, $52i; credits of banks, banker,
broker, ETC., $1,000; moneys of other than
banks, banker, broker, etc, $i5,422 ere
dts of other than bankers, etc, $4,000;
bonds and stocks, $1,075; shares of capital
stock of companies not of this state, SO, 700;
pawn brokers property, none; property of
corporations not before enumerated, $500;
bridge property, none; property of saloons
and eating houses, $3,145; household and
Office property, $7l, 95l; investments in real
estate and improvements thereon, $4,000;
grain Of all kinds, none; shares of stock in
State and national banks, $55, 100; all other
property, $l9,547; total value of unenum.
Grated property, $344,l15 total value Of
personal property IN the County, $23,736.
The valuation of lands, town and city
lots, assessed in Alexander county, are as
follows: Improved lands, twenty.six thous-
and, four hundred and forty-five acres, val
ued at 1904 ,4ss, average valuation per acre,
$7.73; unimproved lands, eighty-one thous-
and, nine hundred and seventeen acres, val
ued at $l70,560, average valuation per
acre, $20S; total lands one hun
dred and eight thousand, three
hundred and sixty-two acres, valued at
$374,9Ss, averaged valuation per acre,
$3.46. OF improved town and city lots
there are one thousand, nine hundred and
two, valued at $s79, 4eS, sverage valuation
per lot, $46237; Of unimproved lots there
are FIVE thousand, eight hundred and
seventy-seven, valued at &272, 4Ol, average
valuation per lot, $46.35. The total num-
Der OF town and city lots is seven thousand,
seven hundred and SEVENTY nine, valued at
el151,S20, average valuation per lot,
el49.07. The total valuation Of all per-
sonal property, lands and lotsin the county
is $2,05o,5D3.
There is no railroad property Of any kind
assessed in Alexander county.
The amounts ADORE given will probably
be reduced by the state board Of equaliza.
ton, for whose benefit the statement has
been compiled.
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