Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-01-19
THE LAND VALUES.
Wonderful Increase Since 1899.

WOuuerluI luCTehSe OlnCe lcOO.
The annual report of the Auditor
of Public Accounts shows that the
value of real estate in Virginia has
increased $22, S44, 095 since 1895: This
includes the land and the buildings
thereon.
The total increase by reassessment
of 1900 in cities over reassessment OF
1895 was $8,S42 ,449. The total in
crease over assessment OF 1899 was
81, 6S9, 597.
The total increase by reassessment
of 1900 in counties and cities over re-
reassessment of 1895 was $22, S44, 095
The total increase over assessment OF
1899 was $13, 526,775.
The figures below will show the in
crease, first as to counties, then as to
cities. The realty Is assessed every
five years;new improvements thereon
are assessed every year.
In 1S95-Value OF town lots, $l2,'
499, 1851; value of buildings on town
lots. SIS, ,O20; total value OF lots
and buildings, $50, 7O1. Value of
land. S116.579, 564; value of buildings
on land, $42, 1917, 354-total value of
land and buildings, 1858, 6,91S.
Value of land, lots, and buildings,
$1S9. 571, 6l9, Of which $1S2,327 ,S74 l.
owned by white and $7,S43, TAO is by
colored persons.
By land books of 1899, based OIL
reassessment of 1895: Value OF town
lots, $10,672 ,0S9; value OF buildings
on town lots, SIS, $40, 912-total value
of lots and buildings, $29, 203, OOl
Value of land, $117, 1924, 449; value OF
buildings on land, $44, 52S. 637--total
value of land and buildings, $162, 453,
0S6 Value of land and lots and build
ings, 1871, 1856, 0S7, of which 1888, 662, "a
is owned by white and $S,O73,S4O If
owned by colored persons.
FIGURES FOR LAST YEAR.
The figures for 1900 are very in
teresting, indicating as they do, All
increase, in round numbers, OF 81
900 900 in the value of lots, lands, and
buildings. BY reassessment OF 1900:
Value of town lots, $12, no, 4S0; value
of buildings on town lots. $20,717, O99
total value Of lots and building,
$S3 APT, 529. Value of land, $123, OIL
47O; value of buildings on land, $46,-
624, 266-total value Of land and
buildings, $40, 145, 1856. Value OF
lands, lots, and buildings, $203,573
265. of which S194, 593, $40 is owned by
white and $S,579,595 by colored pers
sons.
Summed up, the increases of 1900
over the assessment of 1895 were az
follows: Increase by reassessment. of
1900 OF value Of land in. counties over
reassessment Of 1895, $6,941 ,906; in
crease over assessment OF 1899, 50 ,597.-
021; increase by reassessment OF 1900
Of value OF buildings in counties over
reassessment Of 1895, $4,S06,912; in
crease over assessment OF 1899, 81, 095.-
629. Increase by reassessment OF 100
of value of town lots in counties over
reassessment OF 1895, $3.50, TAO; increase
over assessment of 1899, ~, OBS, BAL. In
crease by reassessmento Of 1900 Of value
of buildings on town lots in counties
over reassessment OF 1895, $2,472 ,079;
increase over assessment OF 1899, 81
6,1S7. Total increase by reassess-
ment OF 1900 in counties over reas-
sessment Of 1895, S14,001, 646. Total
increase over assessment OF 1899, SILL
S37,17S.
FIGURES FOR 1899 AND 1900.
By reassessment of 1900: Value of
town lots, $52, 7S7, 15S; value Of build
ings on town lots, $50, 1868. Total
value of lots and buildings, SIP, 1885,
j21. of which sos, $50, us is owned by
white, and $3,515, 1903 is owned by col
ored persons.
By land books of 1899, based on re-
assessment of 1895: Value of town lots,
S54 ,025,677; value of buildings on
Gown lots, $50, 623, 696. Total value
of lots and buildings, $119, 649,3 1878, OF
which $116,0S0, 049 is owned by white,
and S3,569, 324 is owned by colored
persons.
By reassessment of 1899: Value of
town lots, 500, 1893, 451; value OF build
ings on town lots, 65,140,519. Total
value of lots and buildings, 121 1893, $40,
of which S117,854, 1SS is owned by
white, and SO, 1872 is owned by col
Ored persons.
Increase of reassessment OF 1900 in
value of town lots in cities over re
assessments Of 1895, SO, All, 293; increase
Of assessment of 1899, $2s172, TIA.
Increase by reassessment OF l9OO In
value Of buildings on town lots in
cities over reassessment OF 1895, so,
431, 156; decrease as compared with
assessment OF 1899, $4S3, 1H.-Rlch-
mOnd Dispatch.