The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-01
BOARD OF EQUAIIZATION RAISES
THE ASSESSED VALUATION OF
GAS COMPANY
AND THE STREET RAILWAY.
THE LATTER ASKED TO PAY TAXES
ON PROPERTY VALUATION OF
$2,5OO,OOO.
FORMER TILTED ABOUT AS HARD.
If the Action Stands 1t VIII HIVE
to Pay on Personal Property
valued at $I,5OO,OOO.

The board of equalization raised the
mischief yesterday with the st. Paul
city hallway company and the st.
Paul Gas Light company. Incidental
ly they raised the assessed valuations
OF the personal property of those two
companies some 81, 500,0 900
The st. Paul City Railway company
in it's return to the county assessor,
valued its personal property at $401 ,275.
The assessor tackled on $500, 900 as the
estimated value Of the cOmpany's fran
chise. This was not enough to satisfy
the board of equalization. That body
quietly tilted the valuation $1,000, 600
The st. Paul Gas Light company re-
ceived the same heroic treatment Its
return showed an estimate of $3.50 S27,
not including the companys franchise.
FhlS the assessor considered worth
100000, which amount was added
ThereupOn the board took a guess at
the value of the Gas Light cOmpany's
personal property, and put it down at
100000.
The action of the board was not
unanimous. That the assessments Of
these two corporations were increased,
was not in any way to Mayor Doran's
nor County Auditor Sullivans liking.
These two worthless knew that the mat
teE was coming up in the afternoon, as
agreed upon at the forenoon session
But they absented themselves all the
afternoon, and so escaped the necessity
Of voting on the question.
The return of the St. Paul City Rail-
way company, valuing its property at
SOL. 275, not including its franchise, was
evidently based upon last years figures.
a year ago the company estimated the
value Of it's personal property at $243,-
Tl0; this amount the assessor raised to
$40l ,275, which sum was increased by
the board of equalization to 81, 1876, 275.
On this valuation the st. Paul City
Railway company paid the full tax of
$24,74429.
Alter considering the return, which
with the 100000 valuation placed by
the assessor, gave a total Of SOL, PTS,
the question of increasing the total
valuation to $2,5C000O was put to a
vote. The motion was carried by the
following vote:
Yeas-kirke, Reardon. Kaldunski, Seng.
Queul anu ftclI.
Nays-Hardick Larsen and Wright
Absent-AIayor Doran and County Auditor
Sullivan.
The vote on increasing the valuation
returned by the st. Paul Gas Light
company to $1,5OO,OC was as follows:
GeaS-kirke, Reardon, Quehl, Seng. Larsen
and Wright.
Nays-Hardck, Kaldunski and Reif
Among the larger items contained in
the return of the street railway COM
p2ny, aggregating $401,275, We're 700
cars, $4,000; tools and machinery $20,-
coo, and all other property, $4,000.
The board of equalization decided to
notify both companies of the increase
in the assessed valuat ton of their per-
sonal property. in order to give each
an opportunity to be heard.
ln going over the returns of individ-
Uals. the board found one made out
and signed by a prominent resident of
st. Anthony mill, in which the value
OF four horses was placed at the sum
of So, and three watches were put
down as worth 81.