Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14
SOME MORE EIGERES-

A few weeks ago We gave an abstrac
of the returns of as many Land Apprais
ers as had made their reports, and now
append some figures on the remaining
townships and towns. The same condi
tions noted then still prevail, and much
difficulty was experienced in compiling
the summaries of some townships, owing
to lack of proper recapitulatiOn by the
Appraisers. We give the figures as found
in the books, and are aware that in one
or two cases they will not prove correct,
slight mistakes in the books having oc-
Cured. But they are substantially cor
rect and are valuable for comparison. In
some instances it was necessary to make
our own computations, and in others
even this was impossible.
Richland township returns 5,S57 acres
of land, divided as follows: Plow, STA
acres; meadow, 1854 acres; wood land,
7,49S acres. Total value of lands, 81 ,145,-
'O7O; buildings, S191, $40; total of both
lands and buildings, 81, 1896, $50. Average
value per acre, S37.2S.
St. Clairsville, lots total, S99, ,4S5; build
ings, S1S4,S40; total lots and buildings,
1884, 1925. Louisville, total Sl5,63O. Glen
coe, S11,1 ,160. Bannock, S10,790. East
Richland, $3.50. Grand total Of town
ship, including towns, 81, ,664,6 ,625. In 1880
the total of township outside of corpora
tions, was s1,717,41O. Average value
per acre, S46.71 st. Clairsville, total
S2O6, $50. Grand total, 1882 ,391. De-
crease in ten years, S267, ,765.
Somerset has 4,7S4 acres of plow land;
13,S43 of meadow, and 8, ,l23 of wood land
Total, q, Isl acres. Total value of lands,
S434, $50; buildings, S54, ,2S0. Total, both
lands and buildings, s4S9,24O. Average
value per acre, S22.50.
Somerton, total value, So, ,49O, Temper
anceyille, $500. In 1880 the total was
S475,l23. Average per acre, S21.S3 Som
erton, s33,204; Temperanceville, $9,519.
Total increase in ten years, S5,514.
Mead has a total of 20,665 acres, of
which 4.S49 is plow land; 1924 meadow
land; 5,99l wood land. Acres of coal, 232
Total value of lands and buildings, S517,-
596. Average per acre, S25.67. Ten years
ago the total was s5S7, ,56S, at an average
value per acre ofS2921. Decrease in de-
cade, $69,972.
Warren returns q, ,41S acres. Value of
lands, S47S,990; buildings, $l09, 9,l0O. To
tai, S5SS,340. Average per acre, S27.27.
Barnesville, lots, Sl61 $3.50; buildings,
1856, $50 Total lots and buildings, $521,-
65O(?) Mt. Olivett, total, S,4,0O5. In
1880, the township total, outside of town,
was 1902, 2,253. Average per acre, $4157.
Barnesville total, $780,, ,2OS. Decrease in
township outside of town, S3l3,9l3. In
crease in town, 1924, ,442. Total decrease
in township, including towns, S19OO52
Martins Ferry City has lots valued at
S524, 900; buildings at $945,77O. Total,
81 1,47O,37O. Ten years ago the total of
both lots and buildings was $700,747. In
crease in decade, S767 ,623.
The books from Bellaire and Pease
township are not in yet, although it is
known that Bellaire decreases about
$4,000. As far as returns are in the
total loss is about 100000. Martins
Ferry more than doubles her valuation
in the last ten years, and goes far toward
for the loss in other lOcali-
ties.