The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-04
Increase in the Railway
Tax Valuation.
CORPORATION COMMISSION
Icx Assessment FOR TaxauoW
of thc Property Of Railways Rsc~
The Valuation OF the Thrce Lending
ton OF no Roads RedureA-Osher Cors
poratiens Also Marked up-Day ScS
for Hearing Complaints


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Raleigh. ". g, June Sa-The corpor-
alton commission today completed the
assessment OF railway property In the
state a follows.
Atlantic Coast Line. sIs.ei3. 2se.
against ss.77a.s75 last year.
Southern railroad. sl5.45s.i7s. against
$40. Sos. 72s las year.
Seaboard Air Line. 1874. 10. against
s6,05s.e77 last year.
Miscellaneous roads 81. 303, 3S7. against
IS. 200, 900 last year.
This is an immense increase. save in
showing a decrease OF nearly 81 600, 900,
due solely to the fact that he Cape
Fear and Yadkin Valley road Is absorb
ed by the Southern and the Atlantic
Coast Line. and there is no decrease
in the valuation OF any OF these mis-
cellaneous roads.
Telegraph companies are assessed at
81, 102, 905. steamboats, at 1907, SIS, Pull
man cars at $3.50, $50 against SOC. 9fS
last year, and telephone companies at
S13f, 296.
The total assessment for this year
Is Sff,llf,ouc, Willie tdSl year II was oity
$50, 619, sec, the increase being no less
than $40, 494, 442.
TIL OF the Western Union
Telegraph Company Is increased from
$3.50, 600 to 81, 000, 600, and OF the Postal
from $500 900 to 500, 900.
The principal increase il as follows:
On the Wilmington and Weldon rail-
Dad main line and it's Wilson and
Fayetteville and Petersburg
from SIS, 600 to $4,000 per mile; Its Nor
folk and Carolina branc from SIS. 900
to 500, 600; Atlantic and Yadkin branch
from IS, 600 to 1875, most OF the other
branches being increased $1,000 per
mile.
The increase on the Southern rail-
way is mainly as follows: North Caro-
lima railway, Goldsboro to Greensboro,
from $14,00 to $40, 900 per mile and from
Greensboro to Charlotte, from $1,000
to $25. 900; Piedmont, from 1000 to
SEE, 900; Greensboro to Winston. $4,000
to $12, 600; Winston to Wilkesboro, from
s 5000 to 5000; Western North Carolina
SO, 900 to $4,000: a slight increase or
from 1000 to $1,000 OIL all branches.
The increase as to the Seaboard Air
Line is as follows: Raleigh and Cas-
ton and Seaboard and Roanoke, $f7 900
to s25, 900; Raleigh and Augusta, $f0,O00
to SIS, 900; Carolina Central and Geor-
| gia, Carolina and Northern, from 1000
W S1V,VOO.
The Atlantic and North Carolina rail-
| way is increased from $1,000 to $500.
The roads will this year pay state,
county and town taxes a~ggregating
$3.50, 900, an increase OF $125, 600 over last
! year.
At the next session OF the commission
| 1t will assess the value of the property
of the Southern Express Company n
OF refrigerator cars; also of some tele-
phone lines which have mo- yet report
ed, which will add several hundred
thousand dollars to the tax list.
| Railways and other transportation
| companies will be given a hearing on
July 18th in order to show cause why
there should be any reduction.
n Vance monument committee is
called to meet here July 9th to select
a design for the bronze statue. Two de-
signs arrived today from Washington
artists.
Avalon cotton mills. at Mayodan,
Rockingham county, are chartered;
capital $50, 900. B. N. Duke. r. II.
Fries, r.. J. Reynolds and w. G. Ruff
fin, owners.