The record-union., 1895-08-28
TOLO, SOLADO AND GLENN APPEAR.
Their officials WrestIe With the As
sessment Rolls.
Solano Asks for a Reduction OF 10 Per
Cent. From Her Assessors
Figures.

ceived their annual "roasp rOm the
other members of the board into whose
local affairs Beamer had inquired too
Closely aud whose corns had been trod-
den on.
Assessor Cham berlain. Chairman u. L.
Houx, j. q. Fredericks and j. X. Shirley
of the Board of Supervisors were present
to look after the interests of the county
and persuade the board that it would be
wrong to raise the assessment.
The usual story of losses to crops by
flood and back water was told % show
why assessments should not be raised.
remark being made about ruined build
ings, Chairman Morehouse said all the
assessments this year seemed made on
ruins. The land was either so dry that 1t
was ruined or so wet that 1t was ruined.
The farmers are ruined by low prices on
crops and hop-raisers by low prices OF
hops.
Mr.. Chamberlain said that orchards
were assessed IS high as 500 per acre.
Alfalfa land around Woodland is assessed
at $l00. He never assessed the alfalfa
separately. Trees were assessed at from
50 to $40 an acre. 1t would hardly aver
age SO an acre, for Of the S55, 900 trees re-
ported in bearing many were poor and IN
many cases man had only from twenty
to fifty, in which case they were not as
sessed at ali.
Equalizer Arnold insisted that with
that mum Der of trees about Sl6l.OOO should
. have been added to the roll for improve
ments on outside property.
The Farmers and Merchants Bank IS
assessed for 1900 for solvent credits and
real estate. The trees on the Burns,
Hatch Il De Pue orchard are assessed for
$1,000 AS il was the bsst bearing orchard
III the county for its age, Equalizer Ar
mold thought it should be more.
Mr.. Chamberlain said that ne hoped
that the board would take into considera-
ton the fact that the solvent credits had
been raised this year $4,000 IN face OF the
hard times. He felt that he owed the
farmers of YOlO County an apology for
not lowering their assessments III 1888,
but lie had hoped until this year that he
would not have to do 50. 1here were not
six mortgages in the county that were not
assessed at their face value.
Mr.. tredericks said that the price of
mOrtgageQ land and that ad joining il had
been kept up IL the face of the mortgage.
y proposition was made 10 the Board OF
Supervisors last year to have general
reduction made on the roll, but it was not
entertained by them. He, himself, fav-
Ored keeping up she roll. as it made the
tax rate lower. Mules were not as good
property in \ olo as they used to be; Is
good span was sold the other day for s45.
dis own mules were assessed at 500.
Equalizer MorehOuse said there seemed
to have been screw loose in \ Olo
County, and asked Equalizer Beamer if
he had ever been Assessor over there.
Mr. Beamer said he had eighteen years
ago, and the county was well assessed,
Mr.. Morehouse said that Assessor Cham
berlain did not do enough de.all WORK.
and should be more precise in his reports
o,,1 L.. off al flo
According to his report, all the trees were
bearing, which he (MorehOuse) know was
not the case.
Nj, Shirley gave an account Of the un-
o. otitabIe state of affairs for the wine and
raisin growers in the county. and the low
prices realized by them.
Tho pride of \ olO County in the past
has been her fine mules. and sly illusions
10 them have frequently in past years
been projected against the tympanum OF
Equalizer Beamer by his facetious asso-
ciares on the board. But her glory has
departed; the bicycle and the electric car
are Gro sding the mule to the wall and it
has become drug on the market, There
are plenty Of nne mules in the county,
but the day when it was profitable 10
raise them has departed, and the As-
SCISSOR recognizes the fact.
GLENN COUNTY.
Deputy Assessor George Featherstone,
Supervisors Iiulet and Miller and Asses
sor Eibes Of Glenn County Wer5 present
to speak for their county. Equalizer
Coigan said that the main reason for cit
ing the county was 10 have Its representa-
tiVes present when ColuSa was heard, IN
order to compare the assessments of the
two counties.
Mr.. FeatherstoEe said that the principal
reduction was for personal property and
improvements. The reduction in per-
sonal property was mainly on horses and
mules. The reduction on real estate was
made in few townships in the east part
of the county, where the land can be
bonded for % per cent. less than tho
assessed value. 1t was the cheapest place
in the State that he knew of to-day to buy
land IN.
The land near the north county line is
graveIly, and used to raise eight to ten
sacks of wheat TO the acre. Now it raises
only two or three, and is good for moth
ing but wheat raising.
Mr. Colgap said that town lots had
fallen off $I05,c10 in the past two years.
and he wanted to know how il happened.
Mr. Featherstone said be thought the
figures could not be correct. MI. Colgan
said about SI00,0 OF 1t was in 1885 1894.
Mr.. Featherstone said it was perhaps on
tfe property OF the Bank OF Willows
AID the improvements thereon.
Equalizer Arnold, who has been a
banker himself, entered the field with a
number Of questions concerning the bank
assessments and the amount of solvent
credits turned in. The Bank of Orland
property was assessed at -, 900 ana Tx
lures at $780, Mr.. Arnold said that the
banks statement showed the premises
cost 0,6IS, and Mr.. Featherstone said it
could be built for much less now. The
solvent credits were turned in at s., ,269
The condition OF the county Is shown
.t,n not FRuf ,aho ffnf aY1 .srres
cages are being hled at the rate OF seven
day. The goose land" patch about
two and q hail miles by nine, along the
railroad, IS practically worthless ana is
assessed at 81 an acre. On the Glenn
ranch of 4S, 600 acres about 5000 sacks of
wheat were raised this year, coming out
lust about even on the cost OF production.
Mr.. Hulet said that the county had
q very careful Assessor, and the people
were satisfied that they were equally
assessed. The county, he thought, how
ever. was assessed too high, as the land
is depreciating in productive power and
is becoming each year less valuable.
There has been very little sale Of land;
one piece, the McDaniel's land, assessed
at S45 an acre. sold the other day for So
an acre. There are number OF good
places that are for sale Tor the amount
they are assessed for. One place OF 1000
acres this year brought crop OF 2,4OO
sacks as its total income. Ihe crops
looked well on the lst OF March, but the
north wind ruined it shortly atterward,
thrashing out the grain.
MIR. EeatherStone said he had dlscOv-
cred that the loss of 100000 on city and
town lots was caused by his putting them
in with the outside property, pus on ac-
count of depreciation OF outside prop
erty the change did not appear.
Assessor EIbes thought he had assessed