Tombstone epitaph., 1899-01-29
GOCD SUGGESTIONS.
Ccchise Countv Supervisor
 Gives His Views.

The Terri to,isl supervisors are in session in Phoenix. The Gazette in giving account of the meeting states that Ccchiss County furnished the keynote to the neetInSa. The follow ing extracts ase from tee Gszette
 A communicates on from John Mont Somery. supoTvisur of Cochisn county was read and practically furnished food for discussion the balance oi the day. The letter vas dated from Tombstone, January 24'b, and regr.t- ed the inability of the writer to be present ct the msetinC. Mr. Mont somery inclosei priated extract from the governors message referring to The fact that mines worth $lCO,CO0- 0O0 are paying taxes on valuation of .I prOpe- tv, real and personal, ef only $2 000,COo.
 MT. Mo1gomery, in commenting on the statement, sai thst it WAS un doubtedly true. He cited the fact ,ha, a rancher having l20 head Of cattle but able to find only 100 of them is assessed at $l0 head and pays taxes on valuation of $l GOO. A man with town lot and residence costing S2 ,009 IS assasscd Sl,S09. Thps, men, ,ays MT. Montgomery in his lt'er, ask the assessor the question: "N nat is the King $ )lomon mins sss-ss2d at?'
 "The assessor Can only reply write. MT. M ,n'g ,mery "that,it psyS. sa", S25 ,O00- $500 for the mine and S24 JLO for the Improvements. The man with the town lot then teils tha assessor that the King Sol lpmon nsine is paving 6 dividend right along amounting to a million a year, which represents bIg interest on a capital of S20. .O90, ,eU0-S9, Of which escapes taxation.
 9Th, same line of questions to a degree applies to the assessment of railroads in this territory. In my opinion, eithr private property should be valued on the same basis as corporate property is now, thus bringing the aggre gate tax roll of the counties of the rritory down 70 about $l0.O0O, 900 changing the law sp that enough tax can be levied to run county governments. or, on the other hand, a valuation should b. placed upon corporate properties oh the same bssi, that private proper ty is now valued. which would make sn aggregate tax roll for the coun- ties Of ths terr'ory of something like S5O.000,0 o instead of S2l COG, ,0o0 as at present. do not pr, tend to be .ble to construe law, but notwith- standing the attorney generate con- structiou of section 1757 of the organic act think it possible that the legislature can frame a bill ths, will enable supervisors of the several counties through which any one Tail road passes to meet at some central point for the purpose of placing q valuation on or assessing such rail- road, SO that it will have an equitable valuation as between the counties Interested; and where a railroad is wholly in one county, have 1t assessed in the same manner as other property Thea limit the power Of the terri orial board to eqnalizing only, and prohibit it from varying the aggregate assess- ment of the rsilrnad. of the territory more than, say, per cent"
 Mir. Montgomery also suggested that no she riff shC u'd be ex-officio sss; ssor, and recited their experience in Cochise county, az leading 10 thi. conclusion. He also recommended ed that no recorder or any other officer shou'd be ex-Cfiicio clerk ol board oI supervisor.