The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-01
BOARD OF EQUALIZATION RAISES
THE ASSESSED VALUATION OF
GAS COMPANY
AND THE STREET RAIL- WAY.
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 Railway 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, 100000
The st. Paul City Railway company
in it's return to the county assessor,
valued it's 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 $2,5OO,0 600.
The st. Paul Gas Light company re-
ceived the same heroic treatment Its
return showed an estimate of $3.50 S27,
not including the company's franchise
This the assessor considered worth
100000, which amount was added
Thereupon the board took guess at
the value of the Gas Light company's
personal property, and put it down at
ST. 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 Sullivan's liking
These two worthless knew that the mat
ter 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 it's property at
$40, 275, not including it's franchise, was
evidently based upon last years figures.
year ago the company estimated the
value of it's personal property at $243,-
us; this amount the assessor raised to
$401, 275, which sum was increased by
the board of equalization to $1,156,275.
On this valuation the ST. Paul City
Railway company paid the full tax of
$24,74429.
After considering the return, which
with the 100000 valuation placed by
the assessor, gave a total Of $701, PTS,
the question of increasing the total
valuation to $2,5CO,0OO was put to
vote. The motion was carried by the
following vote:
Yeas-kirke, Reardon, Kaldunski. seng
Quehl and Ref.
Absent-Mayor Doran and County Auditor
Sullivan.
The vote on increasing the valuation
returned by the st. Paul Gas Light
company to $1,000, OCO, was as follows:
Yeas-kirke, Reardon, Quehl, Seng, Larsen
and Wright.
Nays-Hardick, Kaldunski and Ref.
Among the larger items contained in
the return -of-the street railway COM
p2ny, aggregating $401,275, were 700
cars, $4,000; tools and machinery, $780,
coo, and all other property, $175,0
: The board of equalization decided to
notify both companies of the increase
in the assessed valuation of their per-
sonal property, in order to give each
an opportunity to be heard.
In going over the returns of individ-
uals, the board found one made out
and signed by a prominent resident of
ST. Anthony hill, in which the value
Of four horses was placed at the sum
of So, and three watches were put
down as worth ST.