Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-09-12
THE ASSESS
MEN7 FOR 1902
Net Gain in Taxable Valuation S1,656, ,945---
San Miguel Heads the List With
Santa Fe Second.
five SHOW A DECREASE
Chaves Shows the Greatest Per Capita Ratio with S5S6
and Taos the Lowest with S50-Many Singular
Discrepancies -Four Counties Pre-
sented Perfect Rolls,
five SHOW A DECREASE

The total assessment of New Mexic
for 1902 is $41, ,1OS.745 against $3S,904, ,9S
in 1901. The exemptions from taxatio
this year amount to $2,474,751 agains
$1,927, GAL in 1901, leaving a net gain il
taxable valuation during the past yea
of s1,656945.
The assessment rolls of only foul
counties meet the requirements Of the
law, they being those of Bernalillo
Chaves, Grant and Mckinley. The as.
sessment roll sof two counties, Santa
Fe and Rio Arriba, fail to show a sum-
| mary Of the different classifications OF
assessable property San Miguel coun-
| ty leads in the amount of assessment
gained since last year, it being now,
| according to the assessment returns,
| the richest county in the territory,
having passed Bernalillo in that re-
spect. The county gained 1862, 900.
Santa Fe county made the second
largest increase in wealth, $229,O00; then
comes Guadalupe with $212,O0O Eddy
$2OO,OOO Chaves $4,000; Taos $4,000;
Otero $161,OOO; Sierra $153,OOO; Luna
S122,O0O; Colfax $4,000; Dona Ana $7S,-
900; Union $61 900; Rio Arriba $4,000;
Socorro $4,000; Mora $4,000; and San
Juan s537 The counties that lost in
wealth are Grant s2S2,O0O; Mckinley
s222 900; Bernalllo $124,OOO; Valencia
$39,000 and Lincoln $25OO.
The taxable wealth per capita in each
county is as follows: Chaves county
leading in that respect this year the
same as last year. The per capita as
sessment of Chaves county, exclusive of
railroads and telegraph lines is $5S6.
Eddy second with $526 per capita and
the other counties as follows: Sierra
1876; Union 1881; Otero $780, Lincoln
$24S; Colfax s23S; Guadalupe $3.50;
Grant 1920; Luna s216; San Miguel s1S2;
Bernalillo $50; San Juan $12S; Dona
Ana s123; Santa Fe s121; Socorro s11S;
Valencia $109; Mora $94 Mckinley $66;
Rio Arriba $51; and Taos $50. The per
capita assessment for the territory is
$210. If the per capita assessment of
the territory were like that of Chaves
county, which in the opinion of many, |
it ought to be, the total assessed val |
uation of New Mexico would be $14O,- |
100000 and that of the different counties |
as follows: Bernalillo SIS, 600; San
Miguel s13,50O,OOO; Santa Fe $9,000,0OO;
Valencia and Rio Arriba each $780,
900; Socorro $7,7OO,0OO Dona Ana ST.
Doc, 900; Taos and Grant each $500, 900;
Colfax $65O0,000; Mora $6,125,oOO; Union
So, 3O0000; Mckinley and Guadalupe
each $3,200,O00; Lincoln $3,0O000O; Otero
50, 10000 San Juan s2,75OOOO; Luna
81, 100000; Sierra s2,2500OO; and Eddy |
50, 125,000. AS it is, the assessment re-
turn for each county is, San Miguel
leading: San Miguel s4,567 7OOO Berna-
lilo s4,149,OO0; Colfax $2,934,OOO; Chaves
q, 100000; Grant $2,9o4,oOO Santa Fe
2,269,0OO Dona Ana $2,165,OOO; Socorro
2, 100000; Union s2O21,OOO; Valencia
i ,967, 900; Eddy 1892 900; Sierra $780,
100; Luna $1,427,OoO; Otero $1,2SS 900;
Guadalupe $1,25O,OOO; Mora $1,245,OOO;
lincoln $1,22S,OO0; Mckinley s99S 1000;
Rio Arriba $Ss9,ooO; Taos s6s6OOO; San
Tuan $616,OOO. 1t must be remembered
hat no railroads are assessed in San
ruan, Otero, Lincoln, and Guadalupe
as new railroads are assessed .
My six years after contraction. In
,haves, Luna, Union, Grant and Dona
INA counties the railroad mileage is 7
My assessed in part. Singular as are
he discrepancies in the various coun-
les in the per capita assessment, they
re still more startling in the per cent
levied taxes collected, and strange
} say, it Is in the counties having the
west per capita assessment that the
alto Of levied taxes collected during
lie past year is the lowest, ranging
ON 40 to over 60 per cent.