The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-09
TOOK OFF TWO MILLIONS
The County Board Of Equalization
Reduced the Total ASSESS
ment That Much.
Taxes on Foreign Mortgages are
Probably Uncollectible, a
Further Reduction.
County Com missiOners are to DO In ses
sion Again Tomorrow TO Fix
tho Levy.

The county board Of equalization nfter a
session of thirteen days has adjourned. 1t
considered about 200 petitions. refused
about 80, and acted upon about 100, result
ing in a reduction on town lots Of $67G, 480;
improvements on town lots, $3.50. 800; on
land outside of city limits. $197, 480: ing
provements on lands, 1879, G25: merchandise,
$751; $40, furniture, $4,000; mortgages,
S53. 44o; other property, $3G2, 542. Some OF
the reductions made are: Clarke, Conrad
d Curtin, merchandise, reduced from $40,
600 to 10000; syndicate, Bradford, Ames,
Brooke, Bellevue and Wallace additions are
reduced to SO and SO per front foot; G. w.
Cannon. on real estate, $152, 1870; Northern
Pacific Railroad company, on 1900 acres
of mountain land, reduced from $1.25 to
25 cents per acre; G. A. B~roadwater. re-
duced on town lots $4,000, and on other
property $24.0O0; Richard Jockey, reduced
about 100000 on real estate; GREENWOOD,
Bohm d Co., merchandise reduced from
$60,000to $40, 600; Cans & Klein, merchandise
reduced from 100000 to $4,000. The total
assessment was in round figures $32, 600, 900
and it has been cut down to about $3.50, 600, :
600. Foreign mortgages have been assessed
at about So, 100000 but this amount is prob
ably uncollectable.
The county commissioner will be in SEES
sion again at 10 q. m. tomorrow, but not
as q board of equalization. Last Wednes-
day the board of equalization adjourned
which was the last day allowed by law for
taxpayers to make their applications for
corrections. When they meet tomorrow it
is for the purpose of fixing the county levy
and no applications will be received for re-
auctions of assessments.
The county clerks Office will be a busy
place for several weeks. Besides attending
to the regular volume of business the clerks
have a large task on their hands in prepar-
ing the assessment books. There are no
four clerks in the Office and one more will
DO added to the force IN order to complete
the work on time, for County Clerk Tooker
is liable to q fine of $500 if he does not get
the books ready on or before the fl at Mon
day in October. This first thing he is re-
quired to do is to prepare duplicate state
Ments for the use of the state board of
equalization and the state auditor showing:
The total value of property; the value of
real estate, including mining claims, stated
separately; the value of the improvements
elusive OF money; the amount of money:
the number of acres of land and the num-
Ler of mining claims. stated separately.
As soon "a the county clerk receives from
the state board of equalization a statement
of the changes made by the board in the
assessment hook of the county, or in any
assessment, he makes the corresponding
changes in the assessment. On or before
the first Monday in October the county
clerk delivers a cop of the corrected assess.
ment book to the county treasurer. Within
ten days after receiving the book the county
payer a notice showing the amount of taxet
due. and that unless paid on or before Dec.
l they become delinquent and 10 per cent
will be added.