Amador ledger., 1901-09-06
NOT ACCORDING TO THE
BOOKS.

The Amador RECORD OF last week,
in an article advocating the in
corporation of Suffer Greek, says;
1t may be news to many of our
readers to know that the townsite of
Suffer Greek embraces more tax
able property than almost any town
of the same inhabitants in Cali
fornia. We have double the prop
erty valuation Jackson had in her
proposed corporate limits aud much
more than Sonora or Placerville-
Incorporated towns of double the
population of Suffer Creek. The
reason of this is simple. Five min
ing properties in our townsite are
assessed for over 100000. Having
double the value of property than
most towns of our size, this in
itself is strong argument 10 favor
of incorporation, for we could raise
the same amount of money as such
towns with one-half the rate.
We do not propose to enter into a
discussion of the merits or dement's
of the Incorporation question as far
as it relates to Suffer Greek. The
residents of that town are better
able to pass on the general PROPOSE
ton than we are. We simply rise to
the point of order that Jackson,
either as a TOWNSHIP or a school dis
trict, is not behind Suffer Greek in
taxable wealth. We do not desire
to detract in the least degree from
the wealth and Importance of our
sister town. All we ask is that in
asserting its Importance, due regard
be paid to Jackson, which is not only
the most populous but the wealthiest
town, acre for acre, in Amador coun-
ty. Notwithstanding the fact
that Suffer Creek has $780,
600 worth of taxable mining prop
erty within it's TOWNSHIP, we venture
to say it still falls short Of having
the heaviest tax roll of any town in
Amador county.
When the incorporation of Jackson
was under discussion some months
ago, the writer took occasion to
examine the assessment roll Of Suit
ter Creek twenty five years ago
when that town was trying to sup
port city airs. We found that the
amount of taxable property at that
time within its limits was between
1910, 900 and $780, The Central
Eureka has developed into a divi-
dend paying mine since then; the
town has also grown considerably.
We are not in position to Judge as
to the value Of this additional prop
erty, but we think 500, 900 would be
a fair estimate.
But we have the official records
from which to get an accurate idea
of property valuations in Jackson
and Suffer Creek school districts.
Both districts are bonded, and hence
a segregation of the property in
each is made for assessment pur-
poses. According to last years as
sessment roll the valuation of these
districts was as follows:
JACKSON ............... $3.50, ZUc
Suffer Greek ........ COS, 20S
Jackson school district is probably
the most limited in area to be found
IN the county, while Suffer Greek
district embraces much larger ter.
ritory. Fully two hundred Thousand
dollars of mining property in Jack
son district falls outside the towr
limits, beside much other property
From this it will be seen, that al
though Jackson has nearly double
the population of Suffer Creek, the
property valuations are about equal
owing to the fact that all the pro
ducing mines of Suffer Greek dis
trict( are within the town limits
while those of Jackson district fal
outside the TOWNSHIP.
We have no weaus Of asosg