The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-16
The Assessors Figures Make It
More Than Three Millions.
HOW 1T IS DIVIDED
A Gratifying Increase All Along the Line
as Compared With the Returns for
1893 - Recent Occurrences in
Livingston and Vicinity.
Special Correspondence of the Standard

to furnish the county clerk of Park
nual report to the state officers, indi-
cate that expansion has been in vogue
in all the industries of this common
wealth in the Il months just passed.
1t is gratifying showing. indeed, and
is an indication of what an improve
ment has taken place. Last year the
total valuation of all classes of prop
erty in Park county was s., S94, 800 and
this year the total of all property fOots
up $4,000, 499. This increase comes from
gratifying increase ali along the line.
and a comparison of the annual report
of the county clerk last year and the
one just completed shows that every
| class of property listed on the books Of
| the assessor has increased in value and
| gone through the hands of the board
| of equalization with the price put upon
it by the assessor practically indis-
| turbed except in the way OF an increase
| here and there.
| This year real estate other than city
| or town lots, comes to $111 2S4, and the
| improvements on the same are rated
! a $l52, 400. The value of all improve
| ments on lands, owned by someone 9TH
er than the person listing it, is set at
$45, los. and city or town lots are assess
S460,95S. Mining claims fled on or
| patented, S9,913 Telegraph lines,
$500, and telephone lines $4,000. Irri-
cation bitches and fumes are valued
at considerably more than last year,
being assessed at $S196, and gravel beds,
station grounds, depots and round
| houses about the same as last year,
| s37, 275.
The total value of real estate and i'm
| provements is $2,2l9,6SS, and the person
al property of the county is assessed
! al 81 040.S11 The corporations and the
| franchises under which they arr operat-
| ed make up a considerable portion of
| the county's taxable wealth. The rail-
! road assessment is not included in this
| summary, but will be made later in the
year. The Western Union telegraph
system is assessed for 50 miles of pole
line and 102 miles additional wire, all
valued at $500. The Rocky Mountain
and Bell Telephone company is assessed
| for the first time since the local eX
| change wac put in and to it is assessed
"a miles of pole line and so miles ad-
ditional wire The franchise of the local
| exchange is assessed at 81 900: line, $3.50;
WIRE $500, and other property. $24G,
making a total assessment Of $4,000 for
| the corporatio
| The property of the Electric Light
and Water Works company is assessed
at $25, $50, and the franchises are taxed
at So,ooo. In Iark county theIe a. (
s-o'o3' IN MORTGAGES lhcluu4ns stat
county ana municipal bonds IN mort,
cages on personal properly ana real
estate there is assessed SlS,OS7. There
is l64 miles of irrigation bitches, valued
at Soo per mile maklhg' total Oh se'l'o'
Ot Watches, JeWelry ana pIate there Is
s252O: OF househola goods ana iur 4, II
| libraries, law. medical and miscel!ane-
Gus, $6,775 goods, wares and merchan-
dlse Sl5s'oo9' nHlufes OF STORES ga
looms, oilces anu business pIacea' Sl1,-
loo' machlhery "4o,o-o' wagons, tia'
ness ropes piahkets ana sauules' DOL
oV.
| or live stock, there are nine thorough
bred horses assessed at $500; range
horses number 2'ool, ana are valued at
s2',5So: work horses ana mules, l,S2h,
valued l'555; peer cettie lsL, assess
cd at So,Slo' yearllng cattie I'll valued
at so'loo, 'Mo-Sear-oios TO- NaIued at
$3.50; cows $685. valued at Sl93, los;
STOCK sheep o4,o5', valued at $lSo. ii :;
lambs 5,lo5, Nalued at Slo,ooo; Wethers
l,5s9, valued at S4,V'0; hogs 52l, valued
at S2'6Sl.
wheat, oats, barley and nay is as
sessed at S4,592 lumber at S'9; the SOW
ent credits in the banks at $4,000;
money on hand and on special deposits,
va, I95, and bank stocks, S5i,loa. Inc
net proceeds of mines are valued at
$4,000; all other personal property not
enumerated in the above or otherwise
described, $so,ooS: the whole amount
making total OF H,oau,oll
Grain lands of the first class number
1903 acres, valued at s2O9.3l9; nay
lands, first class, 800 acres, valued
| at S135, $3.50; hay lands, second class,
1000 acres, slO4S36; grazing land
fenced, 1886 acres, is valued at $1,9l2
while unfenced grazing land is valued
| a AZ X
The total value of lands assessed Is
$17l .S4. the number of acres being 3oS.
S6I. This does not include railroad
lands, of which there are lS9ll2 acres,
valued at $l42,266, in the county.
In the column headed improvements
on lands AGO buildings are listed at
$126500, and other improvements are
listed at $60,39O. City and town lots arc
valued at $521,577, and the buildings
thereon are valued at $46O,95S, while the
other improvements on lots are valued
at 1913. There are 25,6oO acres OF
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