The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-01-27
The ANDERSON LAW
The Effects of the Measure Are Now
Apparent and Northern nIinne-
sofa Is Benefited.
Mile Laos County Has $1,000 Addi-
tional Acres on Its Tax Rolls
by Reason of the Law.

some interesting figures have been
prepared by State Auditor Dunn and
his assistants which show in exact
figures the operation of the law for the
taxation of railroad lands, commonly
known as the Anderson bill. the last
tax year having been the first year of
its operation. The figures, obtained
from a compilation OF the returns
made by assessors in the various coun-.
ties of the State, show that the num-
berEof acres under taxation last year
was 81 428, 667: as against 32,063, 1856 in
1896, an increase of nearly two and a
half million acres. #
ID That this is practically all due to the
new law is discernible from a study of
the figures, as in the southern part of
the State, where railroad lands have
been disposed of for the most part for
a long time, the 1897 figures are
practically the same; as. those for 1896,
while in the northern and northwest
lern5counties decided gains are shown.
#Aitkin county, while its citizens
were among the foremost in the cru
Isade for the new bill, has only shown a
gain of $4,000 acres, although this is
accounted for, perhaps, by the fact
that tho Aitkin assessment was Sc
lected by the railroads for contest and
the4tax cases are now hung up in the
courts. Anoka county, close as it is,
hasznow $4,000 acres more under as
sessment; Becker. $4,000 more; Bel
trami, $4,000 more; Benton $4,000
more, while a county even as far south
as Big Stone has experienced a gain of
$4,000 acres. Cass county, in spite of
the detachment of it's territory for an
nexation to Grow Wing, has gained
$4,000, and Grow Wing has gained
l2H,O0 @.*''.. =. 81
| fSingularly enough, Chisago county,
where the author of the bill lives, has
dropped Il, 600 acres for some reason,
pres amably the. plating of portions Of
the county for town and city lots. Clay
has gained $4,000 acres; Cook, Ia, 900;
Cottonwood, 10000: Douglas, 1l,000;
Grant ii, ZOO; Hubbard, sc, 900; .Isanti,
without mile of railroad, II. 900;
Itasca, 81. 900; the unassuming county
of Kanabec, 100000; Kandiyohi, $4,000;
Kittson, POI 1000; Lake, 10000; Mar
shall, $4,000; Mile Laos, 81 900; Nor
rison, $4,000; Norman, $4,000, and o.
ter Tail. $4,000.
The banner county of them all, how
ever, is Pine county, which shows an
actual gain of 243,0O0 acres. There
are two main lines of railroad in this
county, and both have been faring we'll
under the old system.
| Polk county, on the face of the re-
turns, shows a falling off of 100000
acres, but this is not hard to under
stand, as Red Lake county has been
detached from it since the 1895 tax,
and the 234, 900 acres under taxation in
the new county show net increase for
the territory formerly comprised in
Polk county OF $4,000 acres, the
greater part of which must be attrib.
uted directly to the Anderson bill.
Roseau county like Isanti, as yet I'm.
penetrated by railroads. gains 10000
practically doubling its taxable area
St. Louis gains $4,000, Sherburne "a,
OO0, stearns 10000, Stevens $4,000
Swift 43, 1000, Todd 1900, Traverse 81,
900, Wadena $4,000, Wilkin $1,000
Wright 6, 900 and Yellow Medicine II,
600. The counties not named above
remain practically the same, only vary
| ing few hundred acres.-&. Pau
Globe. -.,.=2 H. ..,a.s