Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-08-11
Changes Made in the Valuation of
Property by the State Board of
Equalization.
Total Assessed Valuation of the State
After the Increase is About 113
Millions.
All Schedules Carefully Considered
and Many Increases of Valua-
ton Are Ordered.

pleted its session and adjourned We'd.
nesday night. The session of the
board was Il long one and the assessed
of property in the state was
subjected to increases from the figures
returned from the counties all along
the line. Real property was raised
generally in all the counties. nearly
every item Of personal property was
increased and the railroad property
through the state was increased to an
average of owe $4,000 a mile for ill
roads and branches in the state. the
total raise being something like 81, OOO,-
600.
ASSESSMENT OF RAILROADS.
The assessment of the railroads
through the state was fixed by the
board as follows:
Great Northern road. Lib. 81
miles of main line and branches ut
$6,5CO a mile, $7.253.G l S%idctracks.
~. 9S miles at $1,000. $191. $40. Total
assessed valuation. $~7,445.5SO. :
Northern Pacific railway. 500. 1914
miles OF main lines and branches ut
$4,000 a mile. $55.593.211. Sidetracks,
141.029 miles at $1.5OO. $211, 543. 80.
500 railroad. 300. 80 miles of main
! II at $3.50, $2,111. 791. 80. Branches,
1S1.34 miles at $3.50. $S22j.:JOG 80.
S~ldctrackS. 30. O9S miles ut $1,000.
$:35.Ii7.
Chicago. Milwaukee and ST. Paul,
Fargo branch. $40 miles at SG.1OO,
SEol.O00. Harlem and Edgeley
branch. 1851 miles at $I.:15O. sS222.-
GSo.aO. Sidetracks, S.21 miles ut
$1,000, $12.315.
Chicago X Northwestern road, IA ~
miles at $1,000. $G4.074. Sidetracks.
1.2 miles at $1.I0O, $3.50.
REAL PROPERTY.
Real property was raised something
like $G.l0O.G COO through the state. In
creaSes We're made in nineteen of the
or the state. ranYin" from j
to 30 per cent. The following co,n-
ties were increased i'll the per centayc
named: Barnes, 10; Benson. 6: Cnss.
II: Dicliey. 81: Eddy. s; Emmons. s.:
Grand Forks. 10: Logan. 10: MclIcnry.
10: Morton, 80: Pembina. ): Ransom,
10: Ricllland, 10: ROlettc. ): Sargent.
): Stark. %; Stutsman. 10: Trail. %;
Wish. %.
The following counties were lowered
in the per cent named: Foster. ):
Towner. ): Wells. 10.
PERSONAL PROPERTY.
For the assessment of horses the
state was divided into three districts.
as follows:
First District-The counties of Cass.
Grand Forks. Pembina. Richlanl,
Steele. Trail and Walsh.
Second District-The counties of
Barnes. Benson. Cavalier. Eddy, Eos
ter. Griggs. Nelson. Ramsey. Ransom,
Rolette. Sargent, Stutsman. Towner.
Dicliey. LaMOure and Wells.
Third District-The counties of Bill
lings. Bottineau. Enrl"igh. Dickey,
Emmons. Kidder. Logan. McHenry.
Mcintosh, Mclean. Mercer. Morton.
Oliver. Pierce. Stark. Ward. Williams.
Horses II year old were euualiZed
in the First district at $15. in the Sec.
Ond district at SD. and in the Third
district ut $40.
Horses two years old We're equaliZed
in the First district ut $233. in the See.
ond district at $50 and in the Third
district at SIT.
Horses three years old were equal
lied in the First district at 500. in til,
Second district at Ssh and in tht
Third district at $26.
Stations were euunliZeu at $50.
Cattle II year old We're euualizet
at $40. two years old ut S14. and three
years old and over at SO. Cow:
were equalized at II. work oxen a,
$50, mules and asses one year old a
SIS. two years old ut $50. three year:
old and over ut $40. Sheep were
equalized at $1.75. swine ut SO, or
gans at $50. pianos at $40.
or the items of personal propert,
increased. household goods were
raised 20 per cent; threshing machines
engines and boilers were raised 10 PEI
cent: gold and silverware was RAISED
so per cent and diamonds and jewelr,
raised 30 per cent: goods and merchan
disc We're raised by per centage in thu
several counties, Kidder being thu
only county not changed. and all tn.
others We're increased. Barnes. Bot
tineau, Cavalier, Foster. Richland
Trail and Walsh get a thirty per cen
raise. Burleigh is raised 10 per CEN
Billings, Cass, Griggs, Logan. Morton
Pembina, Ramsey, Ransom. Stark ant
TOwner are raised % per cent. Thu
other counties are raised Mt rate.
ranging from 3 to 20 per cent.
Manufacturers materials are raised
% per cent. Manufacturers tools
implements and machinery are raiset
% per cent. Credits are raised 3;
per cent. Stock and furniture o.
sample rooms, eating houses and bill
lard rooms are raised % per cent
Bank stocks are raised in the follow
ing counties by the per centage indi
Gated: Bottineau. %; Burleigh. 25
Cass. 80; Cavalier. %; Foster. 30
Grand Forks, 80: Kidder. 20; Morton
% Nelson, %; Pembina, %; Pierce, %
Ramsey, %; Ransom, %; Richland
30: Rolette. 20; Stark. %: Steele. 20
Stutsman, 30: Towner, %; Trail, 30
Walsh. 10; Ward. 20; Wells. 25.
Elevators. warehouses and grains
therein went up by the following pc
cottages: Barnes. 10; Benson. 20
Bottineau, 10; Rurleigh, 10: Cass. j
Cavalier, 25; Dickey. 20; Eddy. go
Emmons, 5; Foster. 20; Grand Forks
10: Kidder, 10: LaMoure. ); McHenry
20: Nelson. 5; Pembina, 5; Pierce, &c
Ramsey. 30: Ransom, Is; Richland
5: Rolette, 5; Sargent, 5; Stark, 10
Stutsman. %; Towner, 10; Traill, :