The San Francisco call., 1897-07-24
Wants It's Franchise Assess
ment Reduced a
Million.
Supervisors Are Not Yet Ready
to Consider So Important
a Matter.
Property-0wners Granted Reductions
on lmprovements-Real Estate
Assessments Stand.

The Spring Valley Water Company,
represented by Attorney Kellogg, ap-
peared before the Board of Equalization
yesterday to ask that the assess sment on
its franchise be reduced from s., 500, 900 to
ST. 500, 600. The attorney stated as q rea-
son fof the request that the board. in fix
ing the water rates. had, as required by
law, allowed the company its taxes, the
franchise being estimated in the total
amount of assessable properly at ST.
500. 600.
Mr.. kellogg argued that as the board
had itself accepted ST. 500, COO as proper
valuation for the franchise, it should
abide by it's decision. 1t would be taking
$40, coo out of the pockets of the company,
he said, to raise the assessment $1,000, 900
after water rates had been fixed and al
lowance for taxes made.
The consideration of the matter was
postponed to some future meeting, mas
much as there had been some talk OF IN
creasing the assessment instead OF de-
creasing it and because it was found that
no citation for the appearance of the COM
pany had been issued.
Reductions in assessments were denied
as follows:
Sarah Mcmillan. Waller and Octavia streets !;
| Mary A. Hurley, Oak and Grove; Rebecca
| Ruden, Devisadero, near Fell; w. s. McDon-
! aid, Haight, near Central avenue; John
! O'Brien, Post near Jones, and Taylor near
! Post; Mary r. Coghean. Green, near Laguna /;
| Mary A. Fleming, Fourteenth, near Valer rcia ;
! Thomas Farrell Jr., Point Lobos and Ninth
avenues; Mary Nelson, Treat avenue, near
| Twenty-frst; James Mcmahon, Collins, near
! Point Lobos; Mrs. S. D. Mckee, Mission and
! Twelfth ana Valencia, near Eighteenth; !;
/ Ellen OConnell, Clipper, near Noe; Cathe
| Trusseau, Mission, near Tweaty-ffth; Bertha
/ Brugge, Twenty-thiTd, near Sanchez; F.
and E. Bareilles, Hollis and Farrell; French
! Hospital, street and Fifth avenue;
Thomas Cain, Grove, near Octevia; John W.
Finn, Grove and Bush; John w. Finn, Jones
| and Bush; Claus Spreckeis, Market and Sew
/ enth, sacramento near Cough, Golden Gate
| anc Taylor. Ellis near Mason, Bush near
| Kearny, Battery near Pine, Market near
sixth, Sixteenth and Shotwell, Jackson and
Cough; s. Tams, Stockton, near Pacific; Mich
ael Gallagher, Filbert. near Kearny; Charles
| +. Glein, Turk and Mason Peter Walsh, Albion
! avenue, near Seventeenth; j. Boas, jackson
and Broderick; William Cesar, Fourth, near
Bryant; L. NJ. Cesar, Valencia, near Eigh-
| teenth; Mrs c. $. Barnum, Stock ton, near
! Clay; Mary Bowcher, Stockton, near Post;
! Louis Levy, Turk, near Buchanan: George
! Reese, Alabama, near Twenty-thiTd; Isaac
Eliaser Ashbury, near Hayes; Brown Broth
ers, O'Fsrrell, near Polk and o Farrell. near
Larkin; John Hession, Polk and Broad way
John E. Corbett, Excelsior Homestead Tract;
! terrence smith, IWe0Iy-IOuCtn ana harrison I,
! Margaret Mccormick, Market and Brady; Pc
ter Jacob bson. Francisco near Taylor, Mason
/ near Chestnut.
| Reductions were granted on real estate
| improvements as follows:
sarah Mcmillan, Waller. near Oetavia, from
! $4,000 to $2750; E. P. Geary Sutter, near De-
| visadero from $500 to $3.50: Jane Hefferon,
! Eighth ayenne, near Clement, from $1,000 to
| 800; Ellen Karney, Clipper, near sanchez,
! from $500 to $1,000; Margaret Ravekes, Free
| mont near Folsom, from $4,000 10 $500; An
ME McCloud, O'Farrell. near Powell, from
$500 10 $4,000; John w. Finn. Bush, near
| Jones, from 800 10 $3.50: NJ. Glein, Fell near
| steiner, Halght near Steiner, Waller near
| Fillmore. Turk and Mason, Kearny near Bush
| Page and Pierce, from $39, 700 to $39, 200 I;
| Fred Zinp, Fair Oaks, near Twenty-second,
| from $2250 TO $4,000; J. D. G. Hoffman, Home
stead Tract. from $500 to S20O II. W. Smith,
Van Ness, near Vallejo, from $343O to $780,
Brown Bl4s., o. Farrell and Larkln, O Farrell
near Polk, from $24 600 to $21 900; Daniel
Dineen, Webster, near Page, from $4,000 TO
$250O James G. Fair estate. Jefferson, near
Baker, Cancelled, on tide lands. from $4,000 to
5000; John E. Corbett. Castro. near Eigh-
teenth, from $1,000 to $1,000; J. D. Wiseman,
Twelfth. near Kisling, from $500 to $25OO.