The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-06-22
Land Is Not Taxed at Its Real
Value
TENDERS FOR A STATION
The Assessed Valuation and the Prices
Asked
The Difference Ranges from Forty to One
Hundred Per Cent-No Selection Yet
by the Land Committees

The land committee OF the council adj
journed yesterday without taking action
in the matter of the selection OF a site
upon which to erect the proposed new
central police station. Councilman
Blanchard of the ttee had not been
present when his colleagues inspected the
various properties offered for the purpose
on Thursday. hence the delay in the
selection. Blanchard will today visit the
different localities and the recommended
tion in the premises will be made to the
whole council for action on Monday.
1t is interesting to compare the prices
placed on the various sites by the owners
or agents handling the different proper
ties, with the assessed valuation of each
separate lot The difference in the
figures ranges from 40 to. 100 per cent. the
discrepancy not being In favor of the
taxes which are paid into the city treas
ury.
Joseph H. Call has offered for the sum
of $40, $40 lots 10 and IL, block A of the
Mott tract. They are assessed for $l5l5
each. +-..----
McGarvin g. Bronson offered the fol-
lowing sites: The lot fornting 116 feet
on the south side of First street between
Hill and Broadway, S26, 600. Assessed
for Sill. 600.
Lot fronting seventy feet on south side
of First street, between Hill and Broad
way, $40. 900. Assessed for $1,000.
Lot fronting sixty-tive feet on south
side of First street., between Hill and
Broadway. $50, 500-ineluding ten-room
house fronting of Hill street. Assessed for
$4,000.
Lot fronting 116 feet on south side of
First street, between Hill and Broadway
including ten-room house, S45, 800.
Assessed for Sl2. 955.
~ O. D.
street and twenty-nne feet on Second
street. SIS. 600. Assessed for $500.
F. W. Spar offered two lots corner of
First and Flower streets for $4,000. Assess
ed for $500 and $500, or Sl26o for both.
McGarry q 1nnes offered 99x150 feet
o.: Broadway, 294 feet from First street.
for $29. 900. Assessed for $11, 1856.
Charles A: Alexander and M. D. John
son offered lots l l. H. Is, IA, Is. 16 and
II, on the corner of Third Boyd and San
Pedro streets, for $l7, 600. Assessed for
$1,000 for all.
James NJ. Davies offered land on the
southeast corner OF First and Vine streets
for SIS, 500; or, if more land desired the
property adjoining on the east at 81. 25
per square foot. Assessed for 500 per front
foot.
G.. E. de Camp offered two lots on San
Pedro street, between FIRST and Second
streets, one 75x165 feet. $l3 0O0 and one
75xl16 feet for $14,5 500. Assessed for
$3.50 and $4,000.
F.W.Wood, the executor of P. Beaudry,
offered the following sites: Lot fronting
a. 43 feet on the west side of New Hiph
street, for $21, 500; and if desired will in
crease the frontage on New High street
at the rate of $1.05 per front foot. Lot
fronting 1879 feet on New High street. for
$4,000. Lot having frontage OF IT'S feet
on the west side of New nigh street, for
$4,000. Lot having a frontage of 162 feet
On west side 0f Now Hiob STRAIT for
900. Has 27x391 feet on west side New
High street. is assessed for SIG, 120
Nolan d Smith offered the property
located about 300 wards from the junct ON
of Spring and Main streets for the sum
OF $le.00 Assessed for $15 per front foot.
Also the property located about 225
yards from che junction of Spring and
Main streets for the sum of $50. 500. As
sessed for SIS per front foot.
Also.the property located on Broadway,
between Court and Temple, for the sum
of $27, 500, being lot 2 of the Mott tract
and the east 100 feet of lot l, Mott tract.
Assessed for Sill. 400.
Also the property located on Broadway
between Courtsand Temple streeGs. being
lot 2 and the east 100 feet Of the north 40
feet of lot l of the Mott tract, for the sum
of $l3, 800 Assessed for $500.
I he board of home missions of the
United Presby terrain church OF North
America offered lot 30 of the subdivision
OF the property of Don Manuel Requena.
having frontage of 25 feet on the east
side of Wilmington street, for the sum of
$500. Assessed for $1,000.
Charles Gerson offered lots SO and 81
Of subdivision of the property of Don
Manuel Requena, fronting so feet on
Wilmington street, for $4,000, Assessed
for $4,000.
George s. Patton and H. R. simpkins,
trustee. by J. Neuhart. agent. offered the
l. shaped lot fronting on Main street. OPP
posite the plaza, for the sum of $24, 500.
Assessed for $l2, 100.