Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-01
THE NEW VALUATION.
With Comparative Figures Showing
the Increase in Each Ward.
REPORT OF THr CITY ASSESSORS,
Any Changes Hereafter Made Will Add to
the Total Sum.
PROGRESS OF THE WORK OF REVISION

The city assessors submitted their report
Of the taxable valuation to Councils yester-
day showing the gross valuation, as result
of the triennial assessment, to be S266, ,63S,
GIL There is good reason to expect that
the total will exceed S270, 600, 900 before the
assessment is finally completed, as many of
the footings taken from the ward books were
hurriedly made, and are inaccurate. In the
Third ward alone careful count made last
night after the report had been sent to
Councils showed an increase of over IS, 900, :
900 above the figures reported.
Besides, there is large amount of
personal property, such as horses, COWS,
machinery, etc, subject to taxation, which
is owned by persons who are not taxed for
real estate and which has not yet been
added into the column of personal prop
erty." In the First ward this class of tax
able property amounts, to Sl40, ,075; Second
ward, sSl, ,o1o; Third. slO2, 100; Fourth. $685.
o5o; Fifth, S27, ,6S5; Sixth, $40, ,s55; Seventh,
s,575; Eighth, S4,575; Ninth, 81, $50;
Tenth. A, 500; Eleventh Zone horse),
$50; Twelfth, S2o,s 800; Thirteenth,
$1,000; Fourteenth, s., $50; Fifteenth, IS, 4o5;
Sixteenth, S6,750; Seventeenth, S25, 400;
Eighteenth, S25,460; Nineteenth, $3.50;
Twentieth, $500; Twenty-frst, $3.50;
Twenty-second, 1850; Twenty-third. Sc, 265;
Twenty-fourth, s., go; Twenty-ffth, IS, 200;
Twenty-si1th, s11,oO5; Twenty-seventh,
$3.50; Twenty-eighth, S., $50; Twenty
ninth, 81, 500; Thirtieth, S12, ITO; Thirty
first 81, 795; Thirty-second, 81, $50; Thirty
third, $1,000; Thirty-fourth, 81 100; Thirty
fifth, 81, 900; Thirty-si1th, S, $50.
Accepted the County Figures.
These figures, it might be stated, arr fur
nished by the county assessors and accepted
by the board, though in most cases they are
considered by them out of proportion to the
to the actual valuations. Accompanying
the tabulated figures submitted bv the asses
sors was the following communication:
PIrrsBURa. February %.
To Select and Common Councils.
GRNTLEMEN-We transmit herewith our re.
port upon valuation OF property of the city.
IN this report but seven wards are esti-
mated, but done closely, and two OF these
will be completed and actual figures given
classifca tiou is to prevail, we have included
In our calculations nearly as much territory
not to be full" or ''city''a as in the previous
assessment. The puzzlfng question as to
classification has not yet beeh fully deter
mined upon, and If change is made from
former action the change will be in the ma
ture Of an increase The wards estimated
are the Third, Fifth. Fourteen til, Eighteenth.
Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-second.
1t is proper to say that from the day we
received the first county assessment book,
no time has been lost except from q brief
illness. Very respectfully,
FRANK P. CASE, Chief Assessor.
Figures Of the Assessors.
The tables submitted give the valuation
of property by wards and the total amounts,
but for the purpose of comparison THE DIS
PATCH has taken the totals and tabulated
them with the totals of 1891 The assessors
figures are as follows: