The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-08-28
AssEtsssssMENrolFt = soUTH DAKOTA
Valuations Have Materially Grown

OF SOUTH DAKOTA
Valuations Have Materially Grown
Since Last Year.
Pierre, Aug. 25.-On account of the
failure of the appropriation for the
preparation of q tabulated statement
OF assessment returns, as received
from the counties, for the use of the
state board of assessment, there has
been considerable delay in securing
any figures as to the valuation
returned, as the work had to all I
done after the board had concludcN
its work, instead of n large part of il
being done prior to the session, as in
past years. But figures in regard t o
the leading points of the assessment
are O in such shape as to. show
something definite.
The total final returns show an as
sess1nent return of 500, 167,1 66; which
is an increase of STT6,01O over the re-
turn of last year. Every class of prop
erty has been either increased or left
at the same value as last year. The
totals on different classes of property
are:
Lands, $74,:a63,s 69, an increase of
$6T9 ,S32.
Lots, S15,9S2. 5a7, an increase of 49,
906.
Personal property, $e0,455,227, an in
crease of $2O,39O.
Railroads, So. l16, 1875, an increase of
$2a, 49,.
Telegraphs, the same rs last year,
$127 ,2O2.
Express companies, $5!, 1900, an in
crease of $1,000.
Telephones, S53,406, an increase of
$14, 03O.
Sleeping cars. no change, Sll 900.
The railroad assessments show n dis
crepancy from the estimated increase
made by the board at the close of its
work, and is accounted for by an Aft
darit from the Northwestern road
that i'll the past it had been paying
taxes on Il little over four miles more
road than it actually owns in tie
state. 1t also shows by Il comparison
with last years report a reduction in
stead OF an increase, but this is en-
planned by the auditors Office by the
Tact that through error last year the
total railroad assessment in Fail River
county was placed $4,000 too high,
and the error was carried through The
report. With this correction the ac-
tual increase this year is practically
$23, 900, and with SIT, 10000 added for
the extra mileage of the Northwest
ern in past years, the first estimate
would be practically correct.
In the assessment of lands Brown
county leads, with a valuation of $685.
t75, and Minnehaha and Sphinx are close
behind. with owe SO, 900, 900 each. Stan
ley shows the lowest land assessment,
with only s1S,123.
Minnehaha leads in town lots, WITH a
valuation of 2,512. 735. and Lawrence
next, with 81, 79o, 697. they being the only
counties which &c over $1,000, 900 on this
class of property. Buffalo and Charles
Mix counties show no town lots. and
Walworth Is lowest on this class. only
returning $4,0G9.
ON personal property Minnehaha
leads again, with sl,115.5l5; Lawrence
second. with $917 .67l. and Brown third,
with $9l4.7S5. The lowest organized
county is Buffalo, with S47.667
In the unorganiZed counties the total
land assessment is $40, $50, and the total
personal assessment 81, 752, A26. of which
1871, 549 is credited to unorgan!aed
Butte, n $500, 4S6 to Nowlin county.
me total valuations of the leading
counties are: For Minnehaha, $7,22O.-
69S; Brown, Sc ASS, III. Other counties
above So. 5000. 900 are Beadle, Bon Homme,
~Brookings, Codington, Hutchinson,
Lawrence, Lincoln, Sphinx, Turner and
Yankton.
The returns on live stock show an in
crease on all kinds except sheep, which
show a decrease. The total number of
horses eturn is 314. 1Oi. an increase of
2,492;; cattle are returned to the number
of 537,S4S, an increase of 23,329; the sheep
found are given at BIG, 097, a decrease OF
24.6o4: hogs are shown to be on the in
crease with 235. sos, which is %. OPS great
er than last year. Brown returns the
greatest number of horses, with 10. 759,
and Hutchinson leads on cattle. with
1905. Sphinx is at the head on sheep,
with 1880; and Clay with hogs, with
22.4SS.
The total assessment returns from
1879 to this year show that there was a
steady increase in valuation up to 1890
and a steady reduction from that year
to 1896, but this veal shows a slight gain
again.