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

valuation of the whole State of Nevads,
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
had 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
$4,000. yet he paid taxes On 9 property vAlu-
alton of bat s.. 3S5. 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 visi-
lant.'r
Referring to the above, the Elko In
dependent says: The same inequality
between the true value of real estate
and its 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 q. $500 100 The Appeal
calls attention to the fact that Lem put his
property in to the Assessor last year for S.
CO.,. In the Reno journal Of Thursday Sena-
tor Flanagan. the shsepmAn. says be has a.
600 head Of lambs on one range and / 1000 on
another range. and last year he sold lambs in
Chicago for So 40 per head. To have A,0oe
head Of lambs Flanagan must have 10000
head of sheep, or more. He says he will clip
1000 0 pounds Of wool this season. 1t would
Flanagan with his own figures"
The Carson News had the following
to say of the j. q. Thies assessment 10
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
to-day. That issue tells us that Mr.. j.. n.
Thies has Just sold his property near Big
Meadows, Humboldt county, for $50. 000.
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 Mr.. Thies
| still has large holdings Of town property in
| Loyelock, 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
ile2es in the premises and it viii be ~conjec-
tured that this instance will show just about
the average maintained in Humboldt county
and hsw that county cheats the State out Of
its 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 a 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 16 the Silver State
says:
'The report of the County Auditor of
Elko county shows that there is $40, 623. 19
on hand in the county treasury. 1t is q 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 30 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
Nov 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. 19, 1899, the Silver State said edit
ORALLY:
Taxation in Nevada is no criterion to its
industrial wealth. 1t is farce. Compare
Elko. Washoe and Humboldt and the margin
will be largely in favor of Humboldt. Hum
boldt to-day is the richest county 10 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 is
a little over S23 600 600,