Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-01-19

switches and side tracks. Santa Fe,
Lamy, 81, 500 per mile for main line, ant
81, 200 per mile for switches and sid
tracks. Socorro & Magdalena: Mair
line, "a, 500 per mile for main line; ST.,
, 200 per mile for switches and side
tracks. Lake Valley: Main line, $3,5O
per mile, and s., 200 per mile for switches
and side tracks. Silver City, Demine
& Pacific: Main line, $4,000 per mile
switches and side tracks, $1,000 pei
mile. White Water Spur: Main line
| SO, 900 per mile, and switches and side
tracks, 81, 200 per mile.
The valuations on telegraph lines was
fixed as follows: First wire, $25 pei
mile; s. per mile for each and every ad.
ditional wire.
Telephone lines were valued as fol.
lows: Every telephone company hay
ing a central office in any city or tow
in the territory with SO phones or less
shall be assessed at the rate of $40 pei
| phone. This includes all poles and fix.
lures, but each additional phone shall
be assessed at the rate of $6 per phone
and at the rate of SIS per mile of line
for the first wire across the country and
at the rate of IS per mile for each addi-
tional wire.
All workable coal lands situated moi
r,nra thop tan r,fIac from anv nnapatpI
railroad shall be assessed at $50 pei
acre; all coal lands situated more than
ten miles from lines of railroads, SIC
per acre.
All m~erchantable timber lands stu
ated not more than Is miles from any
operated railroad shall be assessed al
! the rate of $3.50 per acre, and all such
lands situated at a greater distance
than Is miles from lines of railroads, at
the rate of $3.50 per acre.
Each quarter section of land or frac-
ton thereof, with permanent water
thereon, suitable for grazing purposes,
shall be assessed at $3.50 per acre. All
lands suitable for grazing purposes
only, without permanent water, 80 cents
per acre; all other lands and real estate
not specified shall be assessed at it's
actual cash value, but under no circum-
stances shall it be assessed for less than
other similar or adjacent property.
The following valuations were fixed
on live stock: Stock horses, IS per head:
COW ponies, $40 per head; American
horses, $50 per head; American mules,
$40 per head; Mexican mules, $40 per
head; burros, 50 per head. All live
stock south of the 35th parallel, 81 per
head; all live stock north of the 35th
parallel. $12 per head; all improved
sheep, $1.50 per head; all unimproved
sheep, 81 per head; all graded Angora
goats which produce a fleece hat is
clipped for market, 81 per head; all
common goats, 50 cents per head; i'm
proved cattle suitable for dairy pur-
poses only, $25 per head.
Pullman palace cars were valued as
follows: First-class sleeping cars, $4,-
600 each; second class sleeping cars, ST.
200 each.
All national and other banking stocks,
and all building and loan association
stocks, so per cent of the actual cash
value.
RECOMMENDATIONS MADE.
The board made the following report
to the governor, covering the 4Sth and
4sth fiscal years:
Inadequate laws and the failure of as
SCISSORS and tax collectors and boards of
county commissioners to enforce those
now on our statute books, are, to a
great extent, responsible for the flnan-
cial condition of territory.
Our opportunities as members Of this
board, to observe and note the causes
which have frequently, during recent
years, forced the territory to make pro-
vision to meet deficits created between
and expenditures, as we'll as
the causes which have interfered with
the prompt and full collection of taxes
throughout the several counties, also
us to suggest and recommend
legislation which we think will tend to
some of the evils above referred
to.
Assessors, with few exceptions, have
failed to properly divide the taxable
in their respective counties COM
ing under the heads of coal, farming,
timber and grazing, despite the fact
that the board places values widely diff |
fering upon property of this character. /
In some cases values placed by this
upon taxable property were en-
tirely ignored.
Tax collectors have, in many in
and without authority, practi-
cally rebated the penalty imposed for |
to pay taxes within the time pre-
by law.
The majority of boards of county |
commissioners have frequently and lille
rally rebated taxes. Some of the boards
at times been too eager to compro-
Mise with tax payers, who usually seek