The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-02-15
THE DEPARTMENTS.
Things Seen and Heard Around the
Offices.

Things Seen and Heard Around the
Offices.
The governor has appointed this
morning at 8 o'clock as the hour nc
which he will be interviewed by Mr..
l.. &. Baker, general manager OF the
Western Union telegraph company.
MIR. Baker comes To see the governor
in reference to that caustic little tel
graph pill appended To his message.
Maddox Bros. q Anderson. of this
city, and Gunter n Munson, of Sher-
man, yesterday paid into the treasury
thirty thousand and four hundred
dollars for fifty cent lands. Besides this
the usual little dribbles ON school, uni
versity and asylum lands amounting
To about ten thousand dollars.
The comptroller, in an interview
with the STATESMAN department re-
porter yesterday. in reference TO the
cost To the state of collecting taxes
and paying in, the following interest
ing facts were ascertained: The loss
on al valorem assessments for 1881
Qncluding all eXpenses) was 1906 per
cent; the loss on poll tax assessments
for 1881, Qncluding all expenses) 1871
per cent; the loss on ad valorem and
poll tax asses sments averaged 22.9 per
cent. The average cost of collecting
the entire state revenue was 81 per
cent. This includes the collection of
a very large amount of revenue paid
into the comptroller direct, such as
drulnmer's tax, taxes on property in
unorganized counties. taxes paid 10y
non-residents on land in organized
counties, all of which cost nothing
for collection.
Apropos of the above per cent on
costs, the following total costs are
given:
The cost of assessing taxes for 1881
was $S9,499, cost of collecting, $92,-
400; land sold to the state for taxes of
1881, and lands sold for prior years
and not redeemed, $5l 800; insolvent
revenue and school poll taxes, $751;
920; insolvent nd valorem taxes, $780,
096; erroneous assessments, $l8,993;
cost of exchange in RENTING funds
to the comptroller, $325S; cost of adj
vertising lands sold for taxes, $3645.
Total cost to the state for putting
taxes into the treasury, $477.047.
From the assessment rolls of 1882,
now ON file, the following figures are
obtained: There were rendered for
taxes "a, l57,50l acres of land-not
quite one-half the land in TeXas-val-
Hed at $l77, $50, $40; city and town lots
to the value of $64, 2S5, 584; value of
railroads, including 42l6.76 miles,
appurtenances and rolling stock, $780,
410.350; telegraph lines, including APP
purtenances, 1891 miles, $3.50, 243;
horses and mules, 500, 1852, valued ut
$22,684, 458; cattle, 4,Si3,90S, valued at
ued at s7.O3l, 789; goats. Az
sos, valued at $4Oi,33l; hogs,
1,023975, valued at 1922, 48O:
goods, wares and merchandise, $22,-
81, 1922; money on hand, $9,794, 3f2;
miscellaneous property, tools, imple-
ments, ETC., $22, 1888. The total
value of all properties assessed is rem
dered at $41l 1925, 476. The state tax
is given as follows: AID valorem,
81 ,235, S44.58; state revenue poll, $146,-
5l8; school poll, S293,036 total state
taxes, 81, 675, 39S.58. The following
remarks" are appended to the comp
troller's estimates:
add to the totaf- value
of state property above given
$8,000,O00 as the approximate
total of assessments for 1882 on lands
in unorganiZed counties, owned by
non-residents, and the total value of
property for 1882 is $4l9, 1925, 476, and
the total al valOrem tax is 81 ,259,-
844.58. The assessment OF 1852 sinr&
an increase of 11s1 per cent over
assessment of 1881. The counties on
Tom Green and Tyler not having
filed their assessment roll for 1882, the
assessment of 1882 is based on the as
sesSment of 1881"
The item yesterday stating that the
comptroller's book showed that
Deputy Sheriff Manning, of lei Paso,
had received his $500 reward, should
have read, "show that tie drummers
Manning arrested had patti the tax
under compulsion."
The Transatlantic fire insurance
company, of Hamburg, and Niagara
fire insurance company, of New York,
filed their reports yesterday, which
showed the following Texas business:
Premiums received, $42, 1924; losses,
S35 1926.
Mr.. II. III. Smith yesterday repaired
and extended the guarantee of the
y ale time lock for another twelve
months. The Yale time lock compa-
ny now guarantee the vaults oS--thass
state treasury TO be non-comearable to
any one between the hours Of p. IN.
and a. m, and not at all Sundays.
Burglars seeking professional en-
gagement are requested to read the
above carefully and thus save their
hearts from yearning for over $1,000
600 cash balance.
The following certificate will ex-
plain itself, with the predatory remark
that it was called forth by the tender
ing of money on the Gibson certifi-
Gates:
STATE TREAsURER's OFFICE, 4
AUSTIN, Tex, Feb. 8. 1888. 81
This is to certify that Leon Blum
and ID. Theodore Ayers, Il. Randall
and the Island City Savings bank, did
this day tender the sum of three
hundred and twenty Thousand, sig
hundred and forty dollars, as ful
payment on 1902 surveys of lands Il
Yoakum and Terry counties, made>
under act approved July IA, 1879, as
shown in certificate of Hon. w. G.
Walsh, commissioner of the general
land Office, herewith, and which pay
ment was refused in accordance with
an act approved February 3, 1888, en-
titled an act concerning public lands,
heretofore surveyed by railroad COM
panies or other corporations or COM
panies, or persons, for the benefit o.
public free schools of this state.
[Signed] f. II. LUBBOCK.