The Republican journal., 1900-12-06
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STATE ASSESSORS FIGURES

| STATE ASSESSORS FIGURES
Show Increased Valuation Due to Manu-.
| featuring.
The figures of the State assessors show
that there are 81 towns in the State
which have a valuation of over a mil
lion. The list is made up as follows;
Lisbon, Caribou, Fort Fairfield, Houl-
ton, Presque Isle, Bridgton, Brunswick,
Falmouth, Freeport, Gorham, New
Gloucester, Yarmouth, Pennington,
Jay, Bucksport, Eden, Winslow, Win
throp, Camden, Rockport, Thomaston,
Norway, Paris, Rumford, Dexter, Oro-
no, Richmond, Topsham, Fairfield,
Madison, Pittsfield, Skowhegan, Ken
nebunkport, kennebunk, Sanford,
South Berwick, and York.
The average valuation for the entire
81 is high, reaching nearly one and
three-quarters millions. Brunswick
has the highest valuation of all, her to-
tai standing a little better than three
and one-half million. Eden, which in
cludes gilt-edged Bar Harbor, comes next
Skowhegan ranks third, and Sanford
stands fourth.
| There are 53 towns which have a val
uation of from S5O0OO0 to million.
The 20 cities of Maine represent 145
millions of the valuations; the 81 towns
! first mentioned, 60 million: the So towns.
IS million and the remaining 336 towns
! and % plantations represent but u per
/ cent. of the total valuation.
IF there is one thing which these
! figures show more strikingly than any
thing else" said Hon. George Pottle of
the board, ''it is the effect Which manu-
featuring has had on the State. You
/ look over that list of 81 towns and YOU
will find that with few exceptions they
are manufacturing towns. In the list
| here are some notable examples of this.
Take the town of Rumford. In 1850 it
was only quiet little town with a
! modest valuation of S2S2. 600. To-day
! we list it at 81 100000, the result, en-
tirely, of the great manufacturing plants
which have been established there.
| Then there is the town of Winslow.
, Ten years ago it had valuation of
, s532, 900. To-day it lists at $1,000. 900.
! And it must be borne in mind that it's
valuation would be much greater if it
were not just across the river from
/ Waterville, for many of the people who
are employed in the paper mills there
! live on the Waterville side.
''What is true of the 81 towns, is also
! true of the SO. 1t is clearly shown that
the manufacturing towns are largely in
! the lead. In that number we find:
East Livermore, Webster, Windham,
! Wilton, Monmouth, Oakland, Vassal-
boro, Warren, Vinalhaven, Waldoboro.
Bethel, Fryeburg, Hampden, Newport.
I Dover, Foxcroft, Guilford, Sangerville.
j Cherryfeld. Lubec, North Berwick and
| number of minor towns which de-
pend on manufacturing to less de-
gree. These figures all show that
] Names future depends on her indus
/ tries, and not on her farms, ,andtha the
bulk of her valuation comes from the
manufactures and not the rural por-
tions.
"The Maine farmer cannot compete
with the broad-gauge farming of the
West, but when you tackle the State
on manufacturing you find where the
strength of the Pine Tree lies
The big plant of the Great Northern
Paper Co. at Millinocket does not figure
in the foregoing figures, for the reason
/ that the town Of NIillinocket has vet to
/ he incorporated This is something
which the coming Legislature will
probably be asked to do, for as it is
row the town can have no police force
of its own and has to depend entirely
ON the strong right arm of the sheriff
and his deputies. Just how large the
town is likely to be is a question. 1t is
thought by some that the promoters of
the Great Nothern would like to have
it take in just the thousand acres lying
close round the mills, but whether the
Legislature would agree to this is
doubtful. 1t is probable that they will
include the whole town of %. 600 acres.
| At the present time the entire plant
is in the wild land country and the
township is taxed at timberland rates
! without regard to the Improvements
{ which have been made. This is in ac-
cordance with the law, but the law
makes the provision that once in five
years the county commissioners shall
see that every township having 20 or
more population shall be Incorporated
so the period of exemption is necessari-
| ly short. [Kennebec Journal.
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