Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-01-25
Present Ownership Maps.


gets through telling the people
about it that it never will be filed
i'll the clerk $ office, or elsewhere
except among those things which
might have been. We believe that
the indignation of the taxpayers
will be so great that the commits
sioners will not dare to carry out
the infamous agreement.
The LEADER misunderstood the
terms of the proposed contract last
week. We understood. that Par
Ger and Van Winkle were to re-
ceive the state tax and four mills
of the county fund, based on the
valuation of the property found
that was not assessed on the origi-
nal roll. We have since been in
formed by Commissioner Trapp
that they are to receive total of IL
mills, and if the state levy did not
reach 7 mills, as last year, the diff
ference was to be made up out of
the county fund. This would take
6 no mills from the county funds
and ! $40 mills state tax.
Now let lis look at the thing and
figure d little. Under this agree
mentI II it is consumated, the con
tractors are to get SII out of every
$40. so the county collects on dis
covered property, or property not
on the original tax roll, for finding
it. On top of this the sheriff is to
be paid a reasonable compensation
for assessing, and the per cent. for
collecting and considerable more
than half of the tax is gone tor
finding, assessing and collecting it.
Take this example: Blain & Hale,
of Albany, own IoS lots in Toledo.
The value of these at SEQ per lot,
which is below the average that
unimproved lots i'll Toledo were
valued at, would reach total of
So, 100, and the total tax would be
S4I.4S. For finding" this prop
erty tthqt was never lost Messrs.
Parker and Van Winkle get S2a. 76
and the county still has the sheriff
to pay for assessing and collecting
the tax. Mr.. Taxpayer, do you
blame the LEALER for kicking2
1t is argued in defense of this
outrage that the contract
ors do not get anything if the taxes
are not paid. Neither does the
county, and if the taxes are not
paid the property had just as we'll
remain undiscovered.
And what proportion of this un-
discovered property was really un-
discovered and what proportion
was not, 10 one but the assessor
will ever know. From the above
example it is plain to be seen that
It pays much better TO discover"
tllan to assess It at So per
lay as the law provides.
For month or more before he
his assessment Assessor
Parker was figuring with certain
members Of the commissioners
'ourt on making supplementary
roll. Perhaps that had
something to do with property
'ecreting itself so that it could not
'e assessed at the regular price of
S3 per day.
Now let us look at this assessing
business a little. Mr.. Parker be-
,an assessing about the middle of
April and turned the roll over about
he first Of October. For his ser
ices during this time he was paid
'S54.7o by the county, or more
han So for every day he worked.
low well did he do his work. In
ne town and immediate vicinity of
'oledo we find the following parties
mitted from the roll: Blain &
lale owning 1908 lots in Toledo and
third interest in I38 more In the
ame place; Coll Van Cleve and
Us printing Office are omitted: !.
!. Copeland was assessed but his
anne does not appear on the roll
he Toledo Coal Company with $40
cres Of valuable coal land with {
ioTe than 81 900 improvements on
he same are not on the roll; the
iargaret Robertson I6o acres adj
'ining Toledo, nov occupied by
!. ]. RAIDER, is not on the roll; the !
roperty Of Nancy Enos near town
omitted and these were found
My on casual inspection Of the
III A. a raogo,,at.f. 81 c.s {