Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-09-06
INTERESTING COMPARISON.
Taxable Valuation as Shown by A.
sessment Returns.

Sierra county leads with n taxable
valuation of 5000 per head of popula.
ton; Grant county Is second with
$2i6 per head; Luna county Is third
with $22S per capita, and then come
the other counties in the following
order: Colfax sslS; San Miguel s145;
Bernalillo $140; San Juan sos; Dona
Ana $105: Santa Fe $50; Mora SOS
Rio Arriba 1913 per capita.
A few comparisons of the different
headings under which each county
makes its assessment returns will also
be instructive. Grant county, for In.
stance, returns mortgages valued at
$~259,510 while none of the other ten
counties report a cent under that
heading although II would pay each
one OF them to go over the county
books of record and dig out the sever.
al million of dollars worth of mort
cages with which those ten counties
should have credited the assessmen:
roll.
Take the item of furniture and the
relative standing of the eleven count.
les Is as follows: San Miguel county
$60,S42: Santa Fe county $50, 900;
Grant $40, POS; Colfax s24.375; Luna
s20,SS4; Dona Ana $2O,430; Sierra
S17,329; Bernalillo $4,000; Mora s1i,-
1885; Rio Arriba $l0,S90; San Juan
s9.461.
Take again the item OF watches and
clocks and the relative standing OF the
different counties is as follows: San
Miguel 1882; Sierra s1,6SS; Dona
Ana 1886; Santa Fe 81 800; Grant
sl,105; San Juan s744; Mora $67S;
Luna si77; Rio Arriba si40; Berna.
lilo 800.
Take the returns of cattle: Grant
county 10000; Sierra 3S,403; Colfax
2S,307; Luna 1885; Mora 1853;
Dona Ana S,415; San Miguel 4,00l;
San Juan 3,77S; %Bernalillo 3.14O; Rio
Arriba 2,l96; Santa Fe 1900.
The returns for sheep are as fol.
lows: San Miguel 1866; Bernalillo
153, 100; Rio Arriba 1872 .165; .Colfax
III $50; Mora 81 $50; Santa Fe 80.
600; San Juan 2s,3si; Dona Ana u.s..
$50; Sierra 10,9lS; Grant 4,470.
Goats make the following showing
on the assessment rolls of the eleven
counties: Sierra 14,1l2; Santa Fe
10000; San Miguel $500; Grant s.
IFS; Bernalillo 5000; Mora 1854; Rio
Arriba 1871; Dona Ana 1.727: San
Juan 1924; Luna Go; Colfax 0.
The burro has been sighted In
every county as the following assess.
ment returns show: San Miguel i31;
Santa Fe and Bernalillo counties each
300; Sierra 277; Rio Arriba 217; Mora
1874; Grant A; San Juan 81; bona
Ana 20; Luna 90; ColfaX 0.
Honey bees: Dona Ana 5 1902; San
Juan $50l; Bernalillo 500; all the
other counties none.
Blacksmiths' and carpenters tools:
Grant S2,S15; Sierra s2,011: San Mig
uel sl,G76; Dona Ana $SG1; ColfaS
and Bernalillo each $500; Mora s455;
San Juan si27; Luna s2S5; Santa
Fe 0.
Exemptions: Bernalillo 1898. 500;
Santa Fe s155,72O; Colfax SIZE, 900;
Mora SOL ,2l0; Dona Ana 1872, 500;
Grant s7S,400 San Juan S75,975; Rio
Arriba s75,290; Sierra s50,50G; Luna
s26,400.
These figures and comparisons show
conclusiyely that there is nothing like
uniform assessments throughout the
territory of New Mexico: that hun.
dreds Of people escape assessment al
together and thousands more escape
IL in part. There is a remedy for this
state of affairs in The excellent assess
ment laws upon the statute books and
all that Is needed is the insistencc
upon their proper enforcement by the
assessors, the board OF county com.
missioncrs and the territorial board
OF equaliZation.-New Mexican.