The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-04
IN BOULDER.
Recommendation of the State Board of
Equalization Adopted.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Boulder, Aug. 2.-The county COM
missioners. sitting as board of equali-
cation, have decided to follow the rec
concentrations of the state board as to
placing a valuation on cattle, though
their action is condemned by some.
At meeting of the assessors of the state
last spring, cattle valuations for the
state We're agreed upon and the assessor
of this county followed the plan then
outlined and assessed accordingly. To
change now makes a considerable ad-
6ition to the work of figuring up the
books, and it is likely that this will
add about 5000 to the clerical work
incident thereto. Under the recon-
mendations of the state board yearlings
are increased from $15 to SIG; 2-year-
olds increased from $40 to $22.50;
stock cattle reduced from $25 to $22.50,
beef cattle from the assessment run
ming from $35 to $45, and averaging in
the county to about $3.50, are raised
to $40; 3-year-olds remain at $50, and
stock sheep are increased from $3.50 to
$275.
The request of the state board to re-
duce the assessment on lands was not
complied with.
A tax matter that is getting atten-
ton from the assessors Office is that Of
cattle owned by Peter Walton of Deer
Lodge county. The claim is that he
ranges his cattle on this side of the
county line, up about Lockharts, at
the head of the Boulder valley, and
that this year, as on previous occa-
sions, the full number is not reported,
either in Deer Lodge or Jefferson. His
assessment is said to be $50 head in
Deer Lodge and $50 head in Jefferson,
while investigation by the assessor
leads him to believe that there are 600
head in this county alone, and perhaps
nearer 1000 The penalty which the
assessor intends to apply in this case
is that provided by the law-to make
the assessment 10 times the number
which were not given in and hold and
sell the stock for the collection of the
tax.
The failure of the Clancy Miner to
be received here for the current week
is accompanied by the statement that
the paper has suspended publication
and that the publisher, A. NJ. Williams,
has gone to the gold district about the
Buffalo Hump, in Idaho, TO look up a
new location, to which the plant will
be removed If he considers the loca-
ton favorable to such an enterprise
The Winston Prospector also recently
suspended publication, c. w. Hubbard
the publisher, giving as reason that
the town is not large enough to war
rant a continuation of the paper. II. L.
Hughes has turned his paper, the Basin
Progress, over to F. n. Wild. and has
gone to Spokane with his family. where
he will about Aug. l begin the publ
cation of a paper to be called the
Weekly Graphic.
A heavy rain this morning did much
good in certain localities, but came too
late to be Of benefit to upland hay or
to the ranges, as the grass had cured
at an earlier date, and with less growth
than usual, on account of the dry
weather that has prevailed this sea-
son. On the lower ground the crop
will be fairly good, and haying is about
to begin. 1t is Gained that on account
of a poor range, and the likelihood that
stock will come off the range this fall
in not as good a condition as usual,
and that everything was used up last
winter and during the late spring, hay
will be worth much more than last
wear