Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-16
A FEW TAXES PAID,
But the Majority of the Citizens Just
Ask for transcripts.
THE CLERKS KEPT VERY BUSY.
Reduction in the Fourteenth Ward An
nounced Yesterday.
But ONE WARD STILL TO BE REVISED

pleted the revision of the valuations placed
on property in the Fourteenth ward. Mum.
erous cuts were made, and in some sections
would require too much space to show the
difference resulting from the revision. The
revision of the Twenty-second ward will re-
quire several days to complete.
The Assessors clerks yesterday morning
turned over to the city treasurer the tax
books for the first ten wards, and the
Twelfth, Fifteenth, Seventeenth, Thirty
third, Thirty-fourth and Thirty-si1th wards.
By hard work yesterday and late last night
Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirty-frst
and Thirty-ftth wards ready to hand over
this morning. A few taxpayers paid their
taxes for 1892 yesterday, but the majority
of the callers made requests for transcripts
of their tax accounts. 1t will take nearly
the entire time of large force of clerks for
more than a week to get out the transcripts
for which orders are coming in.
In the Assessors revision of the Four
teenth ward, property on Fifth avenue, from
Jumanville street to Moultrie street, right
side, is reduced to $500 per front foot. From
Moultrie to Brady street the reduction is 20
per cent From Warden's line to Stobo
street. reduced to $40 per front foot. From
Stobo street TO Zimmerman's line, reduced
to $780, From Brady to Maurice street. right
side, increased 10 per cent over last years
assessment. From Soho street to l5-foot
alley. left side, increase 80 per cent over last
on Fifth avenue. near wyandotte street, get
q reduction of $50 per foot on the Assessors
figures!
Very General Reductions.
On Forbes street, from Moulrtie to Brady
streets, full depths are marked down to 500
per front foot, and short depths in proper
tion, on both sides. From Brady to Maurice
streets, both sides, increased 10 per cent
over last years assessment. From Boquet
street to and including the lot of George C.
Roll, full depths are marked at $50 per front
foot. From Miltenberger to Gist streets.
le0-foot depths are reduced to sll0;
60-foot depths to SIS per front foot. From
Gist to Jumonville streets, and from Jumon-
vile to Seneca. full depths are reduced to
Moultrie streets, full depths are fixed at
sl00, and short depths S65. From Ward
street to Meyran avenue the reduction is $40
per front foot. From Meyran avenue to
is made. r. S. Wamig's frontage is reduced
to 5000 per acre. The tract l29 perches of
Mary B. L. Magee, Emily and Halket streets,
is assessed full at S9,675
On Second avenue, from Brady to Simpson
streets, l00foot depths on the right side are
reduced to sll0 per front foot. From Brady
to Canton street, right side, a reduction Of
$40 per front foot is made. From Romeo
street to L. Schack's lots, fronting the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, are reduced to SIS
per front foot; from the said lots to and in
Guiding Thomas Gallagher's lots reduced to
$50. E. Davis, Samuel Bennett, William
Lewis and Others right side, between Bur-
lington street and Moorhead, McCleane
property reduced to 500 per front foot.
On Bluff street, from Miltenberger to Gist
streets, a reduction OF 20 per cent is made.
On Victoria street, from Lathrop to Desota
streets, both sides are reduced to S65 per
front foot.
On Lawn street, from Rock to Hamlet
streets, 90-foot depths are cut to Se5 per foot;
ll5 foot depths to $3O
On Blaine street, from Elk to Frazier
streets, the valuation is fixed at l5 per cent
over last years figures.
On Halket street, from Wilmot to Frazier
streets. both sides reduced % per cent
On Ward street. from Wilmot to Frazier
all depths, both sides, reduced IS per front
foot.
Figures on Boquet Street.
On Boquet street, from Bates street to the
Challinor property, reduced to $40 per front
foot. From Wilmot to Frazier streets, 100
foot depths are reduced to SIS: 175-foot depths
to SIS; 220-depths to $50; l55-foot depths to $s0
On Neville street, from line of II. 81. DENIM
Ter to Martha kennedy's property, a reduc-
tion OF II per cent is made.
On Emma street the figures are fixed at
last years rate. On Lookout street. both
sides, reduction of 90 per cent from the
assessors figures. On Audley street last
years valuation. Beelen street throughout
gets reduction of l5 per cent.
On Bates street, from Frazier to Wilmot
streets, 95foot depths are reduced SIS per
front foot 7O-foot depth $l3. From Ward to
Atwood streets, right side, 10O-foot depths
are marked at S55; 5o-foot depths $35
On Wilmot street, from Ward to Juliet
streets, left side. reduced to $50 ner front
foot. On Wakefield street, from J. r. Ar
thurs line to the end, reduced Is per cent
Juno street valuations have been reduced
one-half from the original assessment.
Dougherty and Buffers lots on Caroline
street are marked at $40 per front foot A
general cut of Is per cent is made on Short
street. On Mohawk street the reduction is
20 per cent.
On Wyandotte street, from Antoinette to
Wallace Streets the reduction is l2L per cent
On Antoinette street, 20 per cent.
On Pueblo street, from Mohawk to Alle-
qu1ppa streets, right side a reduction to $40
Der front foot is roada