The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-22
Reports From Town Assessors Show
Great Increases in the Values OF
Real and Personal Properly.
PLEASANT PRAIRIE JUMPS UP
Valuation for This Town is Million Dol
lars in Advance of Last Year and Ad-
vances to be Found in other Towns

A storm is brewing anu II IS AAOAS
than probable that with the next meet
ing of the County Board which takes
place in November, Kenosha city and
county will be engaged in a tax night
which will be of the most interesting
nature. The assessors of the different
towns in the county who have been at
work making the valuations OF real
estate and personal property have
completed their work, and while the
reports have not been sent to the
County Clerk, the reports from the as
SCISSORS show that the valuations have
been almost doubled in all the towns,
while the valuation of real and per-
sona1 property in Kenosha has been
increased but very little. line
first forerunner of the 81 )rm came this
morning when the assessor q from
Pleasant Prairie reported that he had
completed the work of valuation and
that the total amount of property IN
the town returned for taxation was in
the neighborhood of ST. 100000. This
amount when compared with the as
sessment of the city of Kenosha
ISL, 1881, 1889. ~ shows strange discrep-
ancy.
With this report the howl has start
ed and as soon as the other towns are
heard from it will be changed into
wall and the great fight will come
when the County Board meets to make
the annual apportionment.
A double assessment has been MADE
in every town of the county. With
the first call of the various assessors
the rate for the valuation was allowed
to remain the same as last year. out
with the passing of a few weeks the
town assessors held meeting and
concluded that they would carry out
the demands of the State Tax Com
mission and assess the property at the
actual value. With this a second as
sessrnent was made and the valuations
raised. At this valuation personal
property. which had been formerly
valued at $500, was increased to $3.50,
and similar advances were made on
both real estate and personal property.
The valuation for the town of Pleas
ant H1d1I1G last yCdA W. 49, ~'' wv
and the increase for this year amounts
to nearly a million dollars.
The valuation of the property, real
and personal, in the different towns, as
apportioned by the County Board at
their last session was as follows:
Brighton, S485, 900; Bristol, $648,OOO;
Paris, $4,000; Pleasant Prairie,
$40, 900; Randall, S34O,0O0; Salem,
500, 900; Somers, $4,000; Wheatland,
1907 1000; City of Kenosha. 81, 95O,OOO.
The town assessors report that the
valuation for this year will double this
amount in every town and in some
towns the increase will amount to
more than one hundred per cent.
Of course if the County Board de-
cides to allow the apportionment as
made by the assessors to stand, it will
result in the lowering of the taxes for
some of the people who own little
property and the main burden OF the
support of the county will fall on
heavy land and stock owners.
With the meeting of the County
Board new supervisor of assessments
will be appointed and it is possible
that the work of equalizing the valua-
ton will be fovnd in the province of
his duties.