The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-24
BOARD OF EQUALIZATION
Wednesday Is the Day When
Kicks Will Be Made.
SOME KNOTTY QUESTIONS
Problems in the Valuation OF Livings-
ton Property-The Northern Pa
cific Buys Spur to the
Byam Coal Mine.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Livingston, July 22.-This evening
the board of county commissioners, sit
ting as a board of equalization, adj
journed over Sunday, having spent the
past week in the work preliminary to
the task of adjusting the values of the
property which they have changed the
assessors figures. Wednesday of next
week is the day set for the residents of
the city who have received notice OF Il
raise in their assessment to come be-
fore the board and make complaints,
and it is expected that long process
sion of property owners will be seen
vending their way toward the court
house on that day bent on convincing
the board that they have done wrong
in changing the figures the assessor
saw fit to place upon their holdings.
This afternoon the, board found more
than a thousand dosars worth of prop
erty which had been overlooked by the
men in the assessors office, and 1t is
expected that several thousand dollars
more will follow the sums already put
upon the assessors books by the COM
missioners.
The board has many difficult knot
TO unite in the valuation of city prop
erty For instance, the water works
plant is offered for sale for 100000 and
the owners are very much averse to
having the property assessed for more
than half that sum. Then there is the
Albemarle hotel property, where an
opposite condition of things prevails.
The owners of this property are as
sessed for more than they paid for the
building. 1t is very likely that the
property of the Rocky Mountain Bell
Tall no
siderably and also the holdings of the
Realty company, a Boston concern
This latter property has been the SUD
ject of considerable figuring on the part
of the commissioners. They have esti-
mated the amount of rent derived from
the holdings of the company here, ana
allowing s per cent. for interest, the
amount taken in every year shows That
the buildings owned by the company
are worth a great deal more as an IN
vestment than the representatives CT
the company are willing to admit to
the assessor, and 1t is llkely that the
assessment will be raised
Manager George White of the Byam
coal mine on Trail Creek was in the city
this evening and reported that the
Northern Pacific railway had purchased
the spur running from Chestnut TO the
coal mines in the valley of the Yellow
stone and had already begun to push
the construction of the road to the Park
branch. This will give the Byam mine
an outlet for it's coal, and it is expected
that the camp will boom from now on.
There is a 12-foot vein of coal -uncoV-
cred in the mine. and with good trans
portation facilities the mines Will pay
as well as any coal mines in the state.
Spokane parties are interested in the
mines and have been working to secure
the railroad extension for some time,
but have not met with great deal OF
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tage of the mining operators that the
Northern Pacific has taken hold of the
matter.
Wonderland is unusually heavy TINS
year. and the past week large num-
Der of celebrities from different parts
of the country have gone into the park
to see the sights in the nations pleas
ure grounds This morning U. S. Grant,
ir and a party of six from California
went up on special car. Another spe-
cial car went up yesterday containing
General Longstreet and party of five
who will be the guests of Captain
Brown of Fort Yellowstone while they
make a tour of the park. Mrs. Herkes,
wife of the street railway magnate of
Chicago accompanied by four guests,
occupied special car attached TO
Thursdays train. A specia! train call
ed the Brooklyn Eagle Special, and
consisting OF 81 persoiiS III Shdl Sc VI q
Mr. Butterworth, went into the park
Thursday. Another special train from
Brooklyn and Newark went up the
same day There We're go people in this
party. A great many people have al.
ready left this city to make the tour OF
the park by private conveyance and
camp en- route, and many others nave
arranged to go during the summer.
The transportation companies are all
doing a good business and the season
bids fair to bring a rush of business
for all concerned.