The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1903-03-07

valuation of the whole State of Nevada,
and, of course, reduce the rate one-half.
When q half dozen bits of property
are escaping taxation that would raise
the valuation of the State one-half, to
say nothing about the hundreds OF
other instances that could be quoted, it
looks as though the Board of Assessors
bad something to do.
About the same time the following
appeared in the Reno Gazette:
~. II. Thies of Lovelock, Nevada, recently
sold ranch property in Humboldt county for
$50, 900, yet he paid taxes on a property valu.
alton of but So, 1886. This is the way nearly
all property has been valued for taxable pur-
poses, unless it was some little fellows home
or cigar stand. In taxing that class of prop
erty the State Assessors have been ever vigil
LIANT"
Referring to the above, the Elko In
dependent says: "The same inequality
between the true value of real estate
and it's assessed value can be found in
Washoe county and in every county in
the State"
During the agitation over taxation in
1901 the Lyon County Times published
the following:
Lem Allen of Churchill county made the
| statement recently that his property in that
county was valued at $4,000. The Appeal
calls attention to the fact that Lem put his
property in to the Assessor last year for 49,
900. In the Reno Journal Of Thursday Sena-
tor Flanagan, the %sheepman, says he has H.
600 head of lambs on one range and l7,Ooo on
another range, and last year he sold lambs in
| Chicago for S3.4 per head. To have $4,000
head of lambs Flanagan must have 100000
head of sheep, or more. He says he will clip
400, 600 pounds of wool this season. 1t would
be a good time now for the Assessor to call on
| Flanagan with his own figures"
The Carson News had the following
to say of the J. H. Thies assessment in
Humboldt county, mentioned above in
this article by the Reno Gazette:
"The Silver State has taken occasion re.
Gently to refer to Storey, Ormsby and other
counties as ''tax dodgers" An interesting
item appears in the Silver State that arrived
4 to-day. That issue tells us that Mr.. j. II.
Thies has just sold his property near Big
! Meadows, Humboldt county, for $36, 900.
Now the tax roll shows that Mr.. Thies was
assessed altogether $685.. In other words he
was assessed at Just one-sixth of his wealth,
presuming that the reported sale included all
his Humboldt county property, which it does
not, as the same paper tells us that MIR. Thies
Lovelock, together with an extensive cattle
business, which makes it all the worse for
Humboldt's showing. 1t is not fair to pre-
sumo that Mr.. Thies enjoyed any special priv
ileges in the premises and it will be c%onjec-
tured that this instance will show just about
the average maintained in Humboldt county
and how that county cheats the State out of
it's lawful proportion of revenue by paying in
one-sixth of the amount it owes, and forcing
less wealthy counties, like Storey and Orms-
by, to pay on q full valuation"
The Carson Appeal of April 10, 1901,
in discussing the new Revenue Law
and taxation in Nevada, shows that
newspaper figures and the official ones
differ materially. The following ex-
tracts from the Appeals article will
give the reader an idea of how some
counties in Nevada were being assessed,
and show how taxation had been levied
under the law that Senator Prudential
advocates a return to would be bene.
fetal to the people of Nevada:
From the Carson Appeal of April 10, 1901.
In its issue of April is the Silver State
says:
1.-the report of the County Auditor of
Elko county shows that there is $42, 623. 10
on hand in the county treasury. 1t is a good
thing for Elko county that this report was not
made public before the late meeting of the
State Board of Assessors. The revenue re.
form patriots from Storey, Ormsby, Douglas,
Esmeralda and the other tax-shirking counties
would have fixed matters so that Elko's sur.
plus would be devoted to the payment of their
proportion of the money needed for the sup.
port of the State government
"Now let us turn to the back files of the
Silver State and see how Ormsby compares
with Humboldt as a 'tax.shirking' county.
On Sept. 10, 1899, the Silver State said edit
ORALLY:
Taxation in Nevada is no criterion to its
industrial wealth. 1t is a farce. Compare
Elko, Washoe and Humboldt and the margin
will be largely in favor of Humboldt. Hum
boldt to-day is the richest county in the State.
1t has more cattle and more sheep, larger
stock interests and more area of cultivated
land than any county in the State. Paradise
Valley, in Humboldt, is richer than any two
valleys in Elko. Lovelock Valley is richer
than the entire Truckee Meadows. Ten men
can be picked out of Humboldt county
whose combined wealth will exceed the entire
taxable property of Washoe or Elko. Hum
boldt's wealth exceeds in the aggregate the
| entire taxable property in the State, which ID