The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-11
LIST AUTOS AT $40
Anoka County Assessors Cause Mem
bers to State Equalization
Board to Gasp.
FURRY Occasioned by the Fact That
Only Two Autos Are Listed
in Hennepin.

Much Ado About Nothing was the
bill at the state board of equalization
meeting yesterday afternoon. It was all
about the automobiles. Hennepin coun-
tvs list showed only two OF this clas.
Of vehicles assessed for taxation, and the
country members Of the board, who had
been raising values on their cows and
sheep, went straight up into the air at
this disclosure.
If any member of the board had read
the papers about three weeks ago, he
would have seen that the Minneapolis au-
tos owned in the city May l were all as
sessed AS the city assessor did not have
the new blanks with space for autos,
they were put under the head Of 'Wag-
ons, Carriages and Other Vehicles. They
were not separated and the exact figures
are not obtainable, but William Edwards
of the assessors office stated this morn
ing that the number was between $50 and
800. The minimum assessment was 1928,
for old machines. The new ones were
assessed at one-half the cost price, and
the assessments ranged from $500 to
$780, The average would be at least
$780, The exact figures can be had by
an examination of the rolls, now at the
county auditors office.
If all other property paid taxes as faith
fully as the autos of Minneapolis, rates
would be lower in Minnesota. Even some
autos bought after May 1 were assessed,
as the owners could not well say they
did not have the money on May l, and
| they were just willing to list the ma
chine as the money. --r...-
| The board gave up when 1t struck the
automobile column yesterday, finding those
| in Anoka listed at $40 and Beltrami at
1881. 1t was evident that bicycles were
| included in this list, and automobiles were
passed until each member of the board
could find from the county auditors in his
district just what they had included under
the head of autos. There were in all 399
returned, Of which twenty eight were
from Ramsey county. Two were from
Hennepin, and they were returned from
| the country districts, where the assessors
| had been provided with the new blanks
with space for autos, and listed them
! properly. 1t was this figure two that dis
| turbed the dreams of the board.
] The board yesterday afternoon placed
the assessed value of hogs at from $3.50
to s4.61. The following changes were
made in county valuations:
Hogs-Palk. raised 70 per cent; wabasha and
Becker, so per cent; -Kenabec 40; Waseca, So;
, dhiePs%a, Fsris Sst. Fitsssa: L. sqsss
Vile Rock Roseau and Watonwan, %: Clear
Rongs and dd Red Lake Is
decreased % per cent and Anoka was decreased
sheepSAnoka. Benton, Carver, Dakota. Grant,
LIE ,suenr, Murray, Otter, Tail Pine, Pipestone,
Polk, Red Lake, Renville st. Louis. Sbley.
and Meeker. 40; Wadena and Douglas. 10; Clear
water. Norman, Rice. Stevens. Swift. Winona
per cent; Chisago, 20 Ter cent, and Chippewa 10
per cent
wagons, Carriages, sleight and RicEeles-Jaek-
son, raised 60 per cent; Norman 50; Benton, 35;
Carlton. Grant. Mile Lacs, Pope and Red Lake,
50 1-3; Waseca, 80; Becker Pipestone, Roseau,
Cook and Martin, %; Marshall, Kanabcc Murray.
Nokles, Pine, Renyille, Rock, Watonwan and
Aitkin. Big Stone, lue Earth, Carver, Cass,
u Chippewa, Chisago;. Cottonwood, Crow Wing.
Douglas, Isantt Kandiyohi, Kittson, Meeker,
Otter Tail, Polk, Scott, Sherburne Sib,ey:
Stearns, Steele, Stevens, Todd, Traverse and
iW abasha, 10; sWilkin, 3d. Rice decreased la
per cent, and FaribG:lt, Is.