The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-10-09
Report Of City Assessor Filed With
the City Clerk Monday Should
Satisfy the RefOrmer.
ASSESSMENT INCREASED FIVE FOLD
Total Assessment for City is $40, 1898, SOS
In Comparison With an Assessment
of $1,869.I39 Last Year.

After nearly five months OF arduous
toll City Assessor Charles Ortiz and
his assistants have returned to the
City Clerk the assessment roll for the
city Of Kenosha for the coming year,
and the roll will certainly be the most
interesting thing in municipal circles
during the year.
According to the books as returned
the assessment of the real and per-
sonal property in the city for next year
is placed at $50, 1913, 668, or an increase
of 5.4 fold over the assessment of last
year, which was 81, 1869, 139.
This report means that one per
cent tax will be levied on the property
in the city for next year, and even
with this reduction the levy will be the
greatest in the municipal history of
Kenosha. 1t means that the burden of
taxation will in a measure be lifted
from the owners Of small homes and
placed in an equal measure on the
great industries of the city, and in al
most every instance with the full con-
sent Of the persons called upon to pay
the tax.
The work of making this new as
sessment of the real and personal prop
erty in the city has been monument
tai one and great credit is due to the
Assessor and his assistants as well as
to the Board of Review and the Super
visor of Assessments for the work. In
their search for true values they have
gone to the very root of the property.
Real and personal property was not
only assessed separately, but following
the very letter of the law the real es-
tate and improvements have been as
sessed separately and then the two
added together to bring something like
an actual value of the real property in
the city.
The justice of the work of the as
SCISSORS is shown in the fact that when
the Board of Review completed the
work Of revising the returns they
found it possible to reduce. the total
amount by only $15O,OOO, so that the
assessment as it will stand when the
levy is made will be $10.248, 668. A
one per cent tax on this amount will
bring into the city treasury $1O2, 1868.
The amount of the levy for last year
was 1913, 456.95.
The value of the personal property
in the city shows the greatest increase
and it is placed at the large sum of
$2,712,43O Last year the same per-
sonal property was assessed at $4O6, 478.
This year the real estate in the city is
valued at So, $50, 238, and the value for
last year was but ST. ,461, 671. A
There is only slight variation IN
the different wards of the city in the
increase that has been made and in
most of the wards the increase is a lit
tie less than six fold. In the First
ward the increase is A. fold, in the
second 4.3 fold, in the third little less
than fold, in the fourth o. fold, in
the fifth 90 fold, in the sixth As fold,
in the seventh OIL fold, and in the
eighth ward 6.5 fold. The increase in
the personal property is shown to be
90 fold. The increase in the entire
assessment counting both the real and
personal property is 5.4 fold.
AS the levy for last year was FIVE
percent levy and the increase in the as
sessment is more than FIVE fold it will
be easy to note that the levy of enc
per cent will give the city anincreased
income.
The value of the property in the diff
ferent wards as compared with the
value set last year is as follows: