The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-09-25
Reports of the Assessors in the Differ
ent Towns Show a Small Increase
in Assessments.
SALEM LEADS IN THE INCREASE
Total Value of the Property In the County,
Exclusive of the City, Placed at Over
Eleven Million Dollars.

the last of his reports Of assessment
from the different town clerks in the
county and he is now making up the
tax roll for the year. Only the city of
Kenosha is to be added to the list and
this will probably be ready for the
clerk by the first of next week. The
clerks have been rather slow in turn
ing in the reports and the clerk will be
late in getting his report to the State.
The report will be a surprise to many
people in Kenosha, for while the as
SCISSORS in the city have been working
night and day to increase the assess
ment of the city property the increase
in the county promises to be very
small one when compared with the i'm
mense increase that has been made in
Kenosha. OF course there was large
margin for increase IN the city but it
is hardly probable that the ratio of in
crease has been kept up in the county.
Total figures for the county show an in
crease of less than three million dollars
for the entire county. The amount Of
increase in the First ward Of the city
will probably balance this amount.
The exact increase over last year is
placed at..$2, 5o4 ,O93. It should be re-
membered in considering these figures
that during the preceding year the
assessors IN the county made an effort
to place the assessed value as near as
possible to the real value and for this
reason it was not expected that the
assessment would be more than five
million dollars more than that assessed
for last year.
In the assessed valuation the order
of the value of the property IN the
different towns is as follows: Pleas
ant Prairie, Somers, Salem, Bristol,
Randall, Brighton, Paris and Wheat
land. The relative positions of the
towns on the assessment rolls have not
been changed for the year. The 1arg-
est increase in the assessment is shown
in the town of Salem.
There are many strange things in
connection with the assessment of the
property in the county and many in
teresting things as well. The assess
ment shows that at present there are
approximately 10000 meat cattle in the
county, 10000 sheep and 4,368 horses.
The effect of Dowieism is plainly
shown as the number of hogs is re-
duced to less that five thousand.
There is strange lack of gold and
49, AofA -
the majority of the farmers in the
county do not aspire to go beyond a
filled case when buying time pieces.
There are only sixty-two time pieces in
the county that fall under the law as
laid down by the tax commissioners
and Somers, with all its wealth, has
not man that owns a suitable time
piece. Pleasant Prairie, which leads
all the towns in the county in the gen
eral assessment, has but a single gold
watch.
Pianos are another scarce article in
Kenosha county and outside of the
city there are but sixty pianos and
organs. Of this number thirty-one
dI Z W NC 1Ouuu lIlG HOMES OF the
people residing in Brighton. Bristol
is decidedly shy on musical instru-
ments and not one is reported for
taxation in the town. Pleasant
Prairie also has no pianos or organs.
The report on mules and asses seems
to be a little shy as only nineteen are
reported in the county. Evidently the
assessor was little near sighted and
overlooked a few. Pleasant Prairie
and Randall reports that there is not a
single long cared animal in the town.
The report shows that there is one
steam vessel in the county and it is in
service in the town of Salem. It's
value is placed at $500.
The statistics for the assessment
compared with the assessment last
year is shown in the following tables:
Total Increase
1902. over last yr
Brighton ................S1,138 1924 S178. 7O2
Bristol 1888. ......... 1891 300 61.427
Paris 49,. .......... 1,164,695 AZ 1856