Telegram-herald., 1886-06-05
RAISED AND REDUCED
Plenty OF Business Tor the
Board OF Review.
TIE GAS MAINS MILL Be ASSESSED
The soard fias Dec dso 10 hsise the
Valuafion OF the Gas Company
Personal Property 500 Per
Cent u The Street Railway
Company Appeals

The Board of Review and Equalization
las lad plenty of business Go attend 90 Tor
ti.e past teo days in attending Go tie wishes
81 ptrues WHO call 10 examine Tie assess
ment ROLLS The ONCE is crowded wiih
vsiiorsa greater part Of the times and n
keeps the members Of the Board busy
imparung information aud receiving
appeals from The assessments as made by
the Supervisors About sixty appeals have
been hed and The time for filing does nol
expire until oclock next Wednesday
Many who call with tie intention of nilus
au appeal change their minds after compai-
lu. their assessments With those 90 their
neishbors. but some who visit the Office
simply for the purpose ot examining the
rolls discover Nhai they Imagine % De An
unfair assessment and conclude to HE al
appeal. The greatest dissatisfaction seems
ID come from the lhird ward bat THE
appeals are fr0m all parts OF the city and on
AN classes oi property.
Ia looking over the rolls Yesterday the
reporter noted the valuation placed upon
lhe property of some of the best known
known Ctizens and corporations. The
Phoenix Furniture Company real estate II
assessed al So. 900 and It's personal properly
20 s,4. .9UJ the Widdicomos real estate
s4S 5Oo, personal $1,000 The Berkey A Cay
ompany' = personal property al olloVVO,
Nelson, Matter & Company personal So
00O The McCord a Bradhed COmpan,
r. o. $4,000. personal, 5000 Orie Cabi
net Company, rea', $4,000. personal
so 600. Sigh Furniture Company. real,
80 100. personal S2I 100. New England,
real SO OO0, personal, $4,000 The Kent
real Sl6 go. personal, $4,000. The Nor
den real, - 500, personal, II 400; Peninsu-
lar Furniture Company, nO real estate
personal, 81 0O0.
The Brush COmpanys real estate Is
assessed AT $4,000; personal, $4,000.
Michigan Barrel Company. real, si2 600,
personal. $50 600 BekEap Wagon ana
Sleigh Company, real. 81 600; personal
) 900 Grand Rapids Electric Light and
Power Company, real, 50 600 personal.
5000. Bissell Carpet Sweeper Company
real. $4,000, personal, $4,000
The Valley City Mills are valued al
$4,000 personal, $1,000 Star Mills,
S24 600. personal, ;, POO Crescent Mills,
| S2s 900; personal 3 400.
Sweet Hotel is assessed at $4,000; y. c.
Johnson personal property at $4,000.
| The Morton. S2S 600, A. v Pantlind * Co :
personal. $4,000. The Eagle Hotel is as
sessed AT 81 800; the Bridge st. House and
two iots adjoining on north, $4,000, the
| Clarendon. $1,000
Powers Opera House is assessed, with
| Metropolitan block as one parcel at s65,
| 600. Redmond Grand Opera House, 50,
| 600, Smiths Opera House ST 600.
George Kendall Is taxed on real estate,
| 81 600; and personal $50, 300 IN the Second
| Ward. In the same ward Harvey J. Hollis
ter is assessed on real estate Sio,4O0i and
personal $3s 200. In the Third ward ID. \.
| BlOdgetts residence is valued at s. 800; and
personal property at SIG 100. In the same
ward the Randall residence, which was sold
a short ume since for $1,000 Is assessed at
| $4,000.
Personal property is assessed 10 individu-
ais as follows: \. l.. Avery -, 800; estate OF
| Fannie L. Avery, $500 Jonathan Boyce,
| so. 600: ID. NJ Benjamin. 81 l0O0; John G.
| FtzGerald Sl3, 900; Henry Fralick. > 500;
| VIM b. Ledyard $4,000; A. J. Bovine
| bank stock. S33 300, Charles Shepard,
| S36 $50; joseph II Martin, $4,000; Free
| man Godfrey. $1,000; Julius Houseman
/ - 800; ID. Robinson, Sll 600; James II.
| Brown. 5000; Willard Barnhart, Sd 900;
| James NJ Barnett. $40 900.
After considering the matter several DAYS
| the board Yesterday decided that the per
sonal property of the Grand Rapids Gas
/ Light Company was not assessed high
enough as compared with other assessments
| The property was valued at 3 600 by Super
visor LOOmis as noted in the TELEGRAM
| HERALD Wednesday morning. This was
understood TO include only such personal
/ property as was found around the COM
| panvs works in the Second ward. and the
gas mains were held 10 be exempt from
taxation. except indirectly through the
stock of the company. The board has
! decided that the mains are taxable as per.
sonal property in the Second ward, where
the office of the company is located, and
Yesterday notified the company that the
valuation of its personal property would be
raised go per cent, or from s., 600 to S500OO
| the $40 600 added representing the taxable
value of the gas mains.
The track of the Street Railway Company
| is assessed in the Second Ward. where the
office is located. al So 600 This the officials
consider excessive and yesterday they ob.
/ taiued blanks with view of filing an appeal
/ The OH ,ias also think that the company
/ horses etc. are assessed too high much
/ higher. they say. than livery horses in the
same wards, and they propose 10 have the
/ valuation reduced An appeal from the
uut afii iavit but 20 appeal effec'uallv from
an assessment on personal property the
/ party appealing must make oath that the
property is not worth the amount for which
I 10 is assessed. The street railway track Is
assed as personal property.
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