Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-09-21
STATE RAILROADS.
Increase in the Assessments as q Result
Of the Complaint Of the Compa.
Hles that
The Original Was Too Complaint
of the People Of Williamson Against
Determinations.

Nashville World, OF Yesterday: Yester-
day, at u O'Clock, the State Board of
assessors completed the work they were
appointed to perform, and certified the
same to Comptroller Pickard, who imme-
| diately turned the books and other docu-
| ments over to the Board of Examiners.
The board is composed of the Governor,
State Treasurer and Secretary of State,
who will probably, on Saturday next, COM
mence the work of investigating the
grounds upon which q number of appeals
have been taken by the railroads from the
| judgment of the Board OF Assessors in re-
fusing to sustain certain exceptions made
to the values fixed by them on the prop
erty of the roads.
The work OF the assessors has been very
yoluminous, and has necessitated great
deal OF hard labor and painstalsing, and it
is needless to add that 1t has been thorough
and complete.
The original assessment as published by
the assessors footed up $2035 81, and the
total aggregate value. S31 1877 200 IS. As
before stated in the World, quite number
OF the roads filed exceptions against what
was supposed to be generalization, which
were heard and carefully considered by
the board and some corrections made, re-
sulting In a considerable change in the o.
grregate result as advertise. the valuation
Oh some OF the reads being raised, while
others we're lowered. The roads in which
I changes were made are as follows:
The aggregate of the Chesapeake, Ohio
and Southwestern road was raised to
81 $4,000, an increase of Sl54, ,4S3 so.
The aggregate of the Memphis and
Charleston's Somerville branch was re-
| duced from S124 ,614 II to SOS, 700, a reduc-
| ton of S25,614 II.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor-
gia, North Carolina division, was reduced
| in the aggregate from $543, $50 to $500, $50
reduction of S43, 500.
The Nashville and Decatur division was
reduced 49-10O of mile in length and
S9,3ll q in the aggregate
The Alabama and Great Southern was
| reduced in length in Tennessee from
S-l00 to $500, and in the aggregate
valuation from S96, $40 SO to S6S, ,496 80,
making reduction of S3s, ,443 75. The
| total reduction on all the roads amounts to
| Sly 1863 70.
The Louisville and Nash rille's Mempis
| line was raised in the aggregate from 81
664, 794 81 to 2,96S, ,2S0, making an in
crease of $303, 4S5 43. The increase of the
taxable value on this road, together with
that of the Chesapeake, Ohio and Great
| Southern, makes a total increase of tax
able value of S457 ,960.23. Deducting the
| of $40, ,099 A, which added to the original
| published statement make the total valu-
| alton of the distributable property be-
| longing to the railroad companies in the
| State S31 ,537 ,300. 80, and decrease in the
| length of lines of 2.72 miles, making the
| total length of miles of railroads in Ten
nessee to be, on the 10th of January last
| 23S3.S SO.
To the above may be added the fact that
Il
OF Assessors, together with that of Comp
| troller Plckard, the assessment of the local
| lied railroad property of the State has
| been raised from less than s., ,000, 900 to the
! aggregate of about 81, 10000 This amount
added to the distributable property would
make grand total valuation of railroad
| property in Tennessee of S34 ,257 900. This
may be regarded as creditable to the board
when taken in connection with the fact
| that the railroad assessment for 1SS1-Sc
shows only total valuation of the distrib
utable property to have been 6,016, ,10(
and 2022.95 miles.
! 1t is proper to state, however, that the
present Board of Assessors put their val
uation upon the main lines, while thosf
for 1SS1-S2 put their valuation alike upor
the main line and side tracks. The pres
ent report, when nicely figured out, will
show an actual increase of something owe
125 miles of main lines.
Some idea of the immense amount o
work done by the assessors may be gath
cred from the fact, that in order to accom-
plish the result produced, they were re
quired to work 500 days and Travelled
II, 900 miles, and in their calculations con
sumed more than 1000 pages OF letter-siz'
paper, while their records will cover abou
1000 pages of legal cap, and all at cost t.
the State of little less than S2930.