Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1900-10-05

for taxes during the time that Collect
or Burnside has been doing the col
Letting. II there was personal proper
~ enough 10 be assessed there GER
tainly was personal property enough
TO have been seized and sold for taxes.
II this wa not done the only cOnclu-
sion is that II was owing TO derelictiOn
OF duty OF the collector, and another
aud more common name for this is
%laziness. The personal taxes assessed
against the late Judge BaDtz amount
ed tn over an hundred dollars, and
were on his library. The judge is
dead, his library has been sold and
there Is nothing left on which any one
can collect q cent. There is a large
amount OF money assessed against the
late T. +. Conway. who, also, was a
good democrat, and the personal prop
erty Of his estate was put up at auc-
ton In Silver City this week. II the
administrator sold this without the
collector making a levy, and the prop
erty changed hands 1t will be impossi-
BILE for Grant county TO get ccutof it,
aud thus II will be a loser to the sum
Of nearly three hundred dollars more.
If Grant county had an assessor that
would have gone after these men,
even II they we're prominent demo-
Gratis the county would have been
some richer. Every one knows there
are mills and machinery on many
mines in Grant county that are not
being worked. II the mines are not
patented this machinery is prac-
tically personal property. When the
mills arc LIFT alone the most valuable
and portable property contained in
them sOon goes. Thieves are numer-
Gus even In Grant county. II the
collector through laziness, docs not
properly attend 10 them. but lets the
taxes accumulate for year after year
the time comes when what is left Of
the property Is not worth the taxes
charged against It. The following
are a few Instances Of mills and ma
chinery connected with mines that
own taxes in this county which are de-
llnquent: The Mountain Key mill at
Pinos Altos, SPAS. The Golden Giant
mill at Pinos Altos. The owners of
this property have given u bond for a
sale Of II. II is promised that IL the
sale is made and the bond taken up
that enough will be held out Of the
purchase price to pay the taxes.
People who have waited for the con-
Summation Of mining sales know what
this means. But even this is better
than some other chances that the col
lector has taken. There Is A. Hersch.
~bergerer's Improvements at Paschal.
It is reported that everything movable
has been taken away, leaving a hole In
the ground. which, II 1t could be
moved would probably be worth the
e63 taxes that are against IL. Out al
Pyramid there is some fifty dollars
against the hoist on the Last Chance
mine. II q person should buy this In
he could not work the lumber 10 the
building up into frewood. and sell the
iron OF the hoist for scrap and then
come out even on the taxes that have
been allowed to accumulate. There is
more than seventeen hundred dollars
against the unpatented mining inter
ests that VIM. Kief owned at Cooks
two years ago. Kieff Is enjoying life
at his old home In Germany, and
Grant county Is that much poorer.
This will do for this week. but the
LIBERAL has not yet got 10 the end Of
The delinquent taxes published over
the signature of John l.. Burnside.