The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-23
TAX BOARDS DECISIONS
ASSESSMENTS OF INTERPRETATIONS
IN INDIANA FIXED.
indianapolis street-RaiIway Company
Must Pay Taxes on Valua-
ton of s4,26O,975.

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ten days considered a very large number
OF appeals from the assessments as fixed
at its first session. These appeals have
been on all the classes of property con-
sidered by the board and have been vigor-
ously prosecuted by those interested in the
assessment. The changes made by the
board as fixed at the first session are as
follows:
Street Car Companies
Broad Ripple Traction Company changed
from $1,000 per mile main track TO S''OVv
per mile.
indianapolis street-railway changed from
So, 200 per mile 10 $1,000.
The indianapolis, Greenwood & Franklin
Railway, Company mileage on Encompasses o
eight miles. In all other respects the as
| sessment TO remain as fixed by the poard
New Albany Street-railway Company
changed from s22,5OO per mile main track
to $4,000 per mile.
Kokomo Railway and Light Company
Madison Light and Railway Company
changed from 5000 per mile main track
Richmond Street and Interurban Railway
changed from $4,000 per mile main track TO
$1,000.
Lafayette street-railway changed from
81. 900 per mile main track TO $1,000.
Logansport street-railway changed from
4 Slb.NOU per inllc lar ~ WV
Evansville street-railway changed from
$4,000 per mile main track TO $4,000.
John S. Crump electric railway of Column
bus changed from 1900 per mile main
track TO $4,000 per mile and from 5000 per
mile rolling stock TO $3.50 per mile.
Steam Railroads.
Grand Trunk & Western changed from
$4,000 per mile main track TO $4,000.
Chicago, indianapolis & Louisville, main
track of the Michigan City division
changed from s16,1O o per mile to s1S, 100 per
mile. Side track of the main division and
of the Michigan City division. 49, miles
altogether, changed from $500 to $1,000 per
mile.
Chicago e. Southeastern Railway main
track changed from $4,000 per mile to $4,000
per mile.
New York. Chicago & St. Louis Railway
changed from $500 to $4,000.
Chicago, Indiana & Eastern changed
from $500 per mile main track to $1,000
per mile main track.
Southern Railway Company Of Indiana
changed from $4,000 per mile main track
to $1,000 and from $4,000 per mile second
main track TO $500 per mile.
Indianapolis Union Railway remains as
fixed by the board at its first session.
Telephone Companies
Otterbein Telephone Company from $40
per mile TO $35.
Monon Telephone Company from $50 per
Prairie Telephone Company from 800 per
mile to $50.
Jasper County Telephone Company from
crown Point Telephone Company from
800 per mile TO $75.
Richmond Home Telephone Company
from S175 per mile to $3.50.
North Vernon and Vernon Telephone
Company from $1,000 per mile to $500.
Noble County Telephone Company from
500 per mile To 500.
Dubois County Telephone Company from
$50 per mile to $25.
North Manchester Telephone Company
from $40 per mile to S35.
Lafayette Telephone Company from 500
per mile to $50.
The Home Telephone Company of Wa
bash was assessed for thirty-seven miles
at $500 per mile instead of twenty-five miles
at $500.
at $40 per mile instead of 5000 per mile.
Eastern Indiana Telephone Company as
sessed at $40 per mile instead of $45.
Western Union Telegraph Company re-
mains as fixed by the board at its first
s~ession-$62 per mile.
The New Long Distance Telephone Com
pany also remains as fixed by the board
at its first session.
The American Telephone and Telegraph
Company also remains as fixed by the
board at its first session.
Gas Companies
Kirklin Brothers from $50, 600 to s45. 600.
The Southern Indiana Gas Company is
The Manhattan Oil Company is assessed
at $26, $50.
The change in the latter company is
owing to a mistake made at the first ses-
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the company and located in the State of
Ohio.
press Company and the American Express
Company remain as fixed by the board at
its first session. The assessment of the
W~ells-Fargo & Co. Express COMPANY is
changed from $3.50 per mile to 500 per mile.
THE LOCAL STREET RAILWAY.
a member of the State Board of Tax
Commissioners discussed the work of the
session just closed last night. '"The totals
of the assessments made by the board
he said, will be found to show a sub
s~tantial increase on all corporate proper
ty. For instance, the net increase on rail-
road property is So. 7O3, AGO. Pipe line prop
erty, with one or two exceptions, is SUBJ
stantially as the board fixed it at the frs
session.
'"The reduction in the assessment of the
Indianapolis Street-railway Company is
easily accounted for" continued the board
County Board Of Review of Marion county
the State Tax Board fixed this company's
assessment at sS,5G0,OW, which included
everything in the way of property the COM
pany had. This year when the state board
made its first assessment of the Street-car
company the intention was to fix the
amount at about $4,0O0.000 or a little above
that amount. The assessment was fixed
at 81. 1885,, the board overlooking the fact
that there was a local assessment of $780,
COO against the company. Accordingly
when final action was taken on the case
the board took the local assessment into
consideration and made a reduction on the
original assessment. bringing the assess
ment down 10 4 1860, 975. Even at this figure
the assessment is greater than that of last
year by $760.975.
There will also be a considerable de-
crease in the assessment of transportation
companies made at the first session for the
reason that when the board first considered
the cases of these companies il lacked
data and was compelled TO proceed on a
mileage basis. Blanks were then sent out
| TO these companies. and when they u-ara
returned the information thus gained.
added TO the valuable information cleaned
from arguments of attorneys for the COM
panies. enabled the board 10 revise its fig
ures intelligently.
TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES.
The reduction in the assessment of tele-
phone property was due TO lack of in
formation at the first session, which was
remedied before final action was taken
In cases in which the board raised assess
nents of these companies there was no
difficulty about getting facts and figures
TO show that they were too high
The total assessment of street and electric
railroads in tho State is confidently be-
lieved by the members OF the State Tax
Board TO be nearly If not quite double what
ii was last year, although this cannot ha
known certainly, since such property vas
assessed by the various county boards Of
review a year ago, the last Legisla t,,re
having changed the law so as to give the
State Board original Jurisdiction.
Assessments of some of the more imnor-
tant transportation companies are as fol-
lows: Armour * Co. mileage of ( 145 miles