Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-11-14
PRIVATE LAND GRANTS
Territorial Board Of Equalization
Will Look Into Their Assessment.
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES


ford has gone to considerable trouble
and some expense TO compile list
OF the land grants in new Mexico. Sc
curing his data from the Office OF the
surveyor general and the United
States land Offices. He has mailed
this list together with the recent able
opinion of Judge John X. Merle on the
taxation OF grants. to the members OF
the ter. itorial board OF equalization,
TO whom he will also mail new map
of New Mexico as soon as the maps
can he procured. II is the intention OF
the board TO divide into TOUR parties,
two in each party, Travelling Auditor
Stafford being counted as a member for
the purpose, and visit every grant in
lie territory to gain an accurate idea
as to its value for taxation purposes.
Trayeiing Auditor Charles V. SAT-
lord has also prepared a table Of as
sessment statistics in addition to that
prepared sometime ago and from
which copious extracts were published
by The Citizen This new table
shows even greater inequalities in the
methods of different county assessors.
Take, for instance, the value OF i'm
provements on agricultural and graz
ing lands and In cities and towns.
Chaves county leads all the counties
with 1851 100. San Miguel coming sec
ond with s579,5S9. Colfax is third
with $i56.960, and Grant fourth with
ss456,655. Then come the other &C in.
ties in the following order: Dons Ana
s292, y67; Otero s2s9.l23 Eddy s2S2,-
AS; Socorro $3.50, sos; Santa We s2lS,-
502: Luna $685. $40; Lincoln sl55, 1857;
Union $153.O05; San Juan $l29,707;
Roosevelt s104,752; Mckinley sl02,-
O3O; Sierra slOl,l6S Mora sS4,s67;
Quay ss0,253; Rio Arriba 66,S02;
Leonard Wood s54.s56 Taos s50.279;
Sandoval $3.50 the county OF Va
lencia being last with only 5.423, or
less than one-sixteenth OF Chaves
county
When city improvements alone are
considered the inequalities are even
more striking, Santa Fe county, for
instance, with the large city of Santa
Fe and many lesser towns and settle
ments standing near the bottom of the
list showing that assessments in Santa
re, and therefore taxes, are exceeding
ly low. San Miguel, with the city OF
Las Vegas, ieads with s523,1l0. the
data for Bernalillo county not being
available. because the assessor OF that
county failed to separate the items as
he should have done. Chaves with the
city of Roswell is second with $685.
l0S; then comes Grant with Silver
CITY S342,265; ColIax with Ration S3l4,-
2l5: Otero with Alamogordo S204 1863.
bona Ana with Las cruces Sl43.63
Socorro with the city OF Socorro Sl29,-
100; Luna with Deming sl2t,iA Ed
dy with Carlsbad $ll6,370; Mckinley
with Gallup s96.ol5;; and then only
comes Santa Fe with the city of Santa
he, Espanola, Cerrillos and other set
Elements, only s9S,2s7; Lincoln $780,
5g2. Sierra y65 SIG; San Juan s4S,.
OPS; Quay $3.50 1862; Roosevelt S3s,t69;
Leonard Wood s33, o36; Valencia $780,
$3.50; Mora sl6.o50; Taos s2,S02; San
doyal yiS7.
The following is the amount OF I'M
provements reported on agricultural
lands: Union sl53,O05; Chaves $751;
$50; Bernalillo sl3l, $50; bona Ana
$l25,4s4, Santa Fe sl2b.2i5; Otero
SS4, LISA San Juan Ssi,679; Lincoln
s66, gOl Rio Arriba 66.SU2; Roosevelt
se6,Os3: Colfax S63,460; Mora $50 1866;
Grant sac, las; Taos si7.477; Sandoval
s42,75S Eddy $2g.S79; San Miguel
s3s 500 Socorro s1l.s46; Luna sll,-
1923; Sierra sl0.015; Valencia s5,Sl9;
Leonard Wood $4,000; Mckinley So
s75; Quay $50
Only fifteen counties report i'm
provements on grazing lands. Eddy
leads with sl26.ls6. and then comes
Socorro with si0s.53O; Colfax s7s,2sb;
Grant y67,2b5; Chaves SAILS; Quay
$40,74l; Luna $2o,O4b; Sierra s26,637,
Dona Ana y23.s3o; Lincoln s23,is4;
San Miguel Site; Mora sl7,O62;
Leonard Wood s17O1l; Valencia ss.-
674: Mckinley sl,540.
The table also deals with averages.
II seems strange that the average
value of city lots Ia less in Santa Fe
than II is at Aztec or in Mora The
following are the average values OF
city lots In counties from which the
assessment returns were sufficiently
complete to compile these data: San
Miguel $3.50; Mora S5s.75i otero