The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-09-15
j. f. LEMEE, Proprietor
SOME PROPERTY STATISTICS.


The amount of increase in 1882 of the
gross assessment Of the property Of this
county over the assessment of 1881 is
$SS,47S The amount of increase in the
assessment of 1881 over that of 1880 was
$lS,63i A total increase in two years Of the
gross assessment of the property in Alex
ander county of $1O7 112.
The amount Of increase in the assessed
valuation Of the property Of the entire state
in 1889, over the valuation Of 1881, is $4,5s3.
The increase Of the assessed valuation Of
1881 over that Of 1880, was $6,572,337, and
yet we are told that the enormous increase
in the rate Of taxation for state purposes
during the last two years was due chiefly to
to the decrease in the assessed valuation of
state property.
In 1880 the assessed valuation of the
property of the state was $739 ,462 As and
the rate Of taxation for state purposes
was % cents on the one numbered dollars.
In 1881 the valuation Of the property of
the state was $7i6,O34S52, or $G,572, 337
more than the assessment Of 1880. 1t
would seem, therefore, that with this in
creased valuation and the extinguished
state debt the per cent OF taxation should
have been less than it was in 1880, but it
was not, On the contrary it was more;it
was nearly half again as much it was Acc
on the one hundred dollars
In 1881 the assessed valuation Of prop.
erty was decreased from that Of 1880 in
five counties Of this congressional district
and increased in the five others. The de-
crease was as follows; Jackson, 2l067;
Perry $40, 492; Pulaski, $l4, 042 Randolph,
$22 1894; Union S7,722 a total decrease
Of $82,5l7. The increase was as follows:
Alexander, $ls,634 Johnson, $2,194 !;
Massac, $G2,25l; Pope, S05, G27 +;
Williamson, S9G,9sl "A total increase
Of S27j,6S7. 1t appears therefore, that
the increase in the valuation Of the prop
erty of the entire district in 1881 over $50
was $l03,170 and yet the people Of the
district had to pay in 1881 a rate Of taxa.
ton nearly one.half again "a large as that
Of the year beforehand why2 Because"
say our Republican apoosists, "the as
sessed valuation Of the property in the dis
ttict ia 1881 was LESS q than it was in
1880"
This year, 1882, the assessed valuation
OF the property Of this congressional dis
trict is Sj70,G27 greater than it was in
1881, This years increase over last year
was about three times as much ~ was the
increase Of 1881 over the year before
Therefore, if the increase in the valuation
Of 1881 over 1880 necessitated the increase
OF the rate Of taxation to the extent OF
fifty per cent. it is reasonable to
conclude that this years increase in
the valuation of property will nccessitate
an increase in the rate Of taxation over
last year Of three times fifty per cent, which
IS one hundred and fifty per cent Last
years rate being Acc on the 800, this
years rate should be Sl.3S on the 500. Il
it is not we shall lose faith in Republican
precedents
These figures were obtained from bule.
tin received from the state board equaliza
ton and may be taken as reliable.
OUR BICYCLE CORRESPONDENT.
ON THE BANKS OF THE GOLD MISSISSIPPI,
STILL ROLLING TOWARD THE PACIFIC.
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