The San Francisco call., 1903-09-08
ASSESSORS KEEP
EQUALlERS BUSY
State Board Continues
It's Session on the
Holiday.
Representatives Of Lake and
Nevada Counties Give
Data.

SACRAMENTO, Sept. 7-A1though
this was a legal holiday, the State
Board of Equalization held a session this
afternoon for the accommodation OF the
Assessors and other officials of outside
counties.
Lake County was represented by As
SCISSOR c. NJ. Young. In 1902 the county's
assessed valuation was s3,153764. This
years valuation was reported to be 3d..
253. .2S2. There was a boom in Lake Coun-
ty ten or twelve years ago, but in the
last ten years there has been a falling off
in the population of 1884. The crops this
year were short on account of the abb
sence of rain.
About 100 TASKS of quicksilver were pro-
duced in the county during the year.
The Bradford mine, which was sold for
800 900, closed down few years ago. The
springs and the mines are what keep
the county up. The hop raising industry
has been abandoned. The temperance
people in the county had boycotted the
business with the result that the industry
fell down to a very low point.
Nevada County was represented by AS
SCISSOR Henry E. Schroeder. The assess
ment of the county in 1902 was So, 1884, Olo
This year 1t Is S6,47S,110. The increase in
ten years WIS SlsO0U,UVU. Oll dCCOuHb VI
the suspension of hydraulic mining in
1881 the assessed valuation of the county
was decreased SO, 100000. In 1880 the as
sessment roll amounted to $9,064,o00 In
1889 Ii fell to IS, 900.
At that time hydraulic mining was the
principal mining industry. Since then
the mining industry has worked gradual
! ly from hydraulic to quartz mining
/ There are now six dividend paying mines
] 1-I- ,Ir- fxrror
sections of timber land in the county at
the present time The best assessment on
/ land outside of mineral land is $2 50 an
acre Lowest assessment on non mineral
| land is about IS acre.
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! O'Dowd. president of the Gaelic Athletic
/ Association of San Francisco.
The Gaelic association football game be-
| tween the Emeralds of San Francisco
and the Erin Og team of Oakland was
won by the former by score of to L
Following are the names of the players
on the opposing teams:
Emeralds San Francisco-N. McMahon. D
Riordan, j. Kullman, ]. Cooney, ]. O'Brien
N. Flynn. ]. Cudahy, NJ. Curran, ]. Johnson
p. Murphy. NJ Sullivan. ]. OConnor. p. Byan
l.. Johnson, J. Lynch. H. Murray
Erin Ogs. Oakland-Kelly, P. Mcdonald
8 Reardon. 7. Nolan. T. Clifford, J. Mcdonald
p Flynn, S. Mahoney, Healy, B. Connolly
O Brien.
The senior hurting game was won by
the Emmets of San Francisco from tn,
Young Irelands of Port Costa and Crock
ett by the score of to 2.
The junior hurting game between th'
Emmett Juniors of San Francisco anC
the Mcbride Juveniles or Crockett was
tie, 4 to T. The members of the team,
are all under fourteen years Of age.
The winners of the races were as fol
lows:
Boys under IA years-w. Howard won, W
Humphreys second.
Girls under IA years-Meda Thornton won
Anna Spencer second.
| Young men over Ia years-Samuel Lesse
| won Charles Oliver second, w. Mfnehan third
, Young ladies' IA years-May Muller
won Veronica Lynch second, Amy WYE
| third.
l Sisters school-Mary Charles won, Am
Fat men-w. Hagarty won. Thomas Kan
second. - -
: Three-legged race Cboys under POT. Nc
Donough and II. McDonough won, Fred Har
rington and Harry Cregan second.