Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-03-09
MINNESOTA NEWS.
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RAILROADS PAY UP

RAILROADS PAY UP.
During the. last month the railroad
companies operating in Minnesota have
paid into the state treasury nearly three
quarters Of million dollars in taxes
upon their gross earnings receipts
The total amount due from railroad
companies, as shown by their sworn
statement made to the railroad and ware.
house commission this year is 81, POI, Pitt
being an increase of about $4,000 ovet
the previous year.
Some of the Minnesota companies set.
tied with the state for their gross earn
1ngs tax as early as December, and a
Re" PAID up in January, hut during the
last rev days Of February nearly quar-
ter of million dollars was received in
less than a week. ga.
The Great Northern leads the list with
gross receipts amounting to $S,92S, 493. q,
upon which a tax of per cent is levied,
netting the state s267,S54.S0, as against
$l76. 460.79 charged up against the North
ern Pacific, which was paid in a lump a
few days ago. The Great Northern has
settled with the state for the earnings of
all its branch lines, but the returns from
the main line have not been received.
Under the gross earnings tax law taxes
upon the gross receipts of railroad COM
panies are graduated according to ths
length of time the railroad has been oper.
at1ng in the state. All under five years.
I per cent; under. ten years pay 2 pex
cent and all above that limit pay per
cent. All of the older companies come
In for the full force of the tax. ....-..
The Chicago Great Western is the only
road which has not been operating over
ten years in Minnesota which does not
pay per cent. The claim is made by the
directors Of the road that it was organ
lied under the old territorial charter
which likes it's tax at 2 per cent. There
mas been a dispute between the state off,
Gals and the officers of the road since the
law went into effect and preparations
are now being made to test the validity
of the claim in court 49,. 49,.
A TOWN WILL MOVE. ..
With the advent of spring the town Of
Eveleth will be taken and slid bodily up
the side of a hill to a new location. The
place it has occupied will be given up to
mining, and most of the present site will
be stockpile or shafts and mine build
ings. ~
Last fall the owners of the townsite put
ton for ore. Every we'll sunk in the town
for months had stopped in a bed of rich
iron, and it was evident enough that some
valuable deposits lay beneath. The lots
had all been sold with reservation to
the original owners of the mineral rights.
so that none of the occupants held more
than surface ownership. 1t was easy,
therefore, to compel them to move. Last
t1,o
uring on moving the buildings, and the
toWnsite owners have been making prep
arations to take possession. They have
decided a similar area on a hillside close
by, but beyond the mineral belt, to the
village, have agreed to grade and ma
cadanize two main streets through it,
have offered to build sidewalks, put in
water mains, lay sewers, and make all
arrangements for the new village, and to
give. every man a new site similar in size
and corresponding in location to that he
now holds. In addition to all this they
will bear the entire cost of moving the
buildings, SO there is not one of the in
habitants who will not avail himself Of
the offer.
STATE G. A. r.
At the regular meeting of the Grand
Army of the Republic, at st. Paul, the
followings officers were elected:
Comrade L. w. Collins nominated Com
rade D. B. Searle for department COM
mander, and he was elected by unani-
nous vote. Comrade Ell Torrance placed
Comrade Gideon S. Ives in nomination for
senior vice commander and he, too, was
unanimously elected.
For junior vice commander, Comrade
more, of Verndale, Charles H. Robinson,
Of Waterville, c. H. Hopkins, of Glen
vile. Comrade Hopkins withdrew in IA
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