El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-07-16
RAISING EN- SKY HIGH.
The County Board of Equalization
Raising the Valuations.

The County Board OF Equalization
Raising the Valuations.
Nine hundred pos al cards were sem
j out yesterday afternoon from the coun-
ty clerks office to as many county tax
payers notifying them that the board
of equalization bad raised their pro
perties from the valua tiOns given last
year to such ard such figures for the
present year. And won't there be a
howl, gentle reader from Dan to Ber-
sheeba and back again to Baldwins-
| Vile? sob, mammal
The board made general raise OF
about % per c,nt and in special cases
the raise was 300 per cent, and over.
| His honor the mayor had a crick in
the back when he read his postal card,
| and he hasn't recovered from the shock
| yet. 1t seems that his honor has been
in the habit of rendering his valuations
by the acre, while his neighbors have
| been returning their valuations by the
city lot. So the bosrd thought what
| was sauce for the goose should be sauce
also for the gander, and this trip the
| board set the valuation of the mayors
city property according to city lot
measurem The increase, as
shown by the table is calculated to
make any one stare. TIE raise in the
case of the Smelling company and the
G. Fl. and r. and p. railroads will
touch the public as something notice.
able, it will also touch the parties ar
rested as something more than notice
able.
The Chinese store keepers have been
want to return their valuations at $500
per each store. The board has prom pit
ly raised the same to figures varying
from $1,000 to $4,000. This viii scare
the celestials worse than an eclip.e of
the sun. Gorge Look too, will go to
cultivatipg his ch lie patch more than
ever to make up in chile profits the
increase in valuation saddled on him.
The real estate companies, especially
the Campbell Real Estate company
have caught it where the metapbOri
cal chicken caught the metapborical
steal, and they will think that fuan-
cial JUS ice has been meeted out to
them in hay scale if not car load lots.
And old man Myar will arise in his
wrath and wipe large fraction of the
stars from the firmament. But then,
the sufferers of this onslaught will |
have an opportunity TO arise and eX-
plain" Monday morning, July 26, when |
the august board of equalization, that |
,ioners. with tncir equalization robes
On, will sit at ne c0urt house to listen
to the music OF the go more or less
excited voices of ind ignant tax payers
)r their represen "a ies. as objection
tftar objection is launched forth in all
he keys known to the musical scale.
md making a gran d jubile. chorus. If
he mem bers Of tie honor .ble board
nave any appetite left for dinner after
)a ssing THROUGH the tenn pest they
ought to go down in history as mar
-eloUs examples CT their kind
However, it is whispered about the
ourt house, that Low that the recent
ounty election carrie d the proposition
o raise the extra - per cent road and
ridge tax. the board may without
eally violent urging be induced TO
nOcs of on the very large raises in
But then nobody knows {
his. The commissioners hope with {
he real Zaiion of the decreased in road
I'D bridge tax to put tie county on a
ash paying basis, and do away with
he use of scrip. Their motives are
hose of the loftieso patriotism: only
he trouble is that many recepi nts of {
hose 900 postal cards Will not look at it $
\ just exactly that light.
The folio wing tahulated statement
ives the names of those whose .valua- l
ops have been noticeably ircre ased, '
he first line of figures being the 1896 |
aluaiion and the second line being
hose of the present 1897 valuation: