The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-15
BUTTE News.
ANNUAL TAX LEVY MADE
Board of Equalization Finishes
Its Work.
DECREASE IN ASSESSMENT
A Reduction of Sizes From the
Figures of the Assessor - An In
crease ozone and One-Fourth
Mills in the Levy.
DECREASE IN ASSESSMENT

The session of the board of equaliza-
ton expired yesterday according to law
and upon it's adjournment the county
commissioners met and made the an
nual tax levy. The result of the work
of the board of equalization is a net
decrease in the county assessment of
,SS5 from the returns of the asses
sor, leaving the assessment of all prop
erty exclusive of railroads at s2736S 1870;
including the railroads, which are
valued at S677, 0O7 by the state board,
the total assessed valuation of Silver
Bow county for 1899 is $2S, 045,132 The
assessments, exclusive of the railroads,
made by the assessor. figured up $21,-
All, 965. and on this the board allowed
complaints and made reductions aggre-
eating S93,540 and made raises to the
amount of $l3, 705. which left the net
result a $27 sos 1870
The tax levy made by the commits
sioners yesterday and the comparison
with last years levy, is as follows:
State fund 1899, 212 mills 1898, 21a
mills; State bounty on stock, 3 mills;
3 mills; Stock inspector and detective
~ mills; IL mills; Stock indemnity,
u mill; u mill; Stock inspection and
indemnity, y mill; y mill; county gen.
eral fund, mills; 8 mills; county poor,
] mill; Ia mills; county road, IL mill;
! mill; county sinking fund, 1amill: L
mill: school district No. /, general, 5
mills: mills; school special building
/ mill; mills; free text books, l mill;
none: school sinking, u mill; p mill
A special poor tax of 81 per capita
and a special road tax of 50 per capita
on all men over p and under the age
of go were also levied. Formerly the
special tax was So per capita, but the
last legislature reduced it to 50.
A special tax of seven mills, school
district No. ; tMelrOse), was also levied
at the request of the school board of
that district, the people there having
voted the tax at an election on the LIST
day of April for the purpose of building
a new school house.
The above figures show an increase
of one and oue-fourth mills in the
county levy over last year, al
though there is material reduction
in the levy for poor and road funds.
The increase in the levy for the general
fund is explained by the commissioners
by saying that two mills of it are in
tended for the purchase of the property
between the court house and Montana
street and for the enlargement of the
court house and county jail. 1t is cal
culated that the two extra mills this
year and the two more next year will
provide the 100000 which it is esti-
mated will be needed for the purpose.
the value of the property intended to be
purchased being placed at $4,000 and
the proposed Improvements at SIS, 900.
The levfes for the school district and
for the state are the same as last
year.
The city assessment has not yet been
made and the total levy against prop
erty of Butte will therefore not be
known until that is made. The total
levy last year was 272 mills, including
the state. county, city and school dis
trict. This year it will probably be
more.