Williams news., 1903-07-04
ASSESSMENT ROLL
 NOW COMPLETE
Marked Decrease in Property Val uation---The Cause and
 the Effect.

county last year entered the list of counties of the first class. By the same process she will this year drop back again. The fuctua ton in the county's finances has been caused by the creation of the DOT tion of the forest reserve within its confines. The transfer of certain lands to the government has been productive in various ways. It has created positions as range riders at good salaries; 1t put much money into the coffers of the corporations and individuals making the trans fer of lands; it put much money, also, into the county treasury; it caused the creation of new and unnecessary county officers at good salaries, and caused the paying out of much more good money in in creased salaries for other county officers; it caused political strife at the last election and the breaking of party and personal pledges; it caused all these good CD things and now the reaction has set in. One of the benefits CD is shown by the decrease in property valuation; another is the cutting out of two unnecessary county offices. What other benefits will accrue remains to be seen. Regarding the differ ence in valua ton the Coconino Sun has the following to say:
 The assessment roll of Coconino county for the year 1903 has been turned into the office of the board of supervisors, by Assessor John H. Lind.
 The total assessment amounts to $2,7O3, ,336.O7, as against $4,527,- 439.66 in 1902, being a decrease of of $1 1925, ,1O3.59 from last year The decrease was due to the transfer of the forest reserve lands owned by the various individual and corpor- ation owners The decrease will be greater next year, and the county will resume it's place among the third-class counties. The property on the assessment roll is classed as follows: Value of personal prop erty, $1,O3S, S,816.56; acres of land, 752, 1O9, which is valued at $1 ,162,- S59O1, and the value of the inn provements thereon at $29, 10000 The town lots are valued at $159,- 275.5O. and the improvements are valued at $312,7S5.OO.
 The assessors return would place Coconino county in the counties of the second class, and if the board of equalization does not raise the assessment roll to three millions of dollars, which they can do if they can raise the valuations and make them stick, the taxpayer will be re- lieved of the burden of paying two extra officials and the reduction in salaries to the extent of nearly six thousand dollars.
 The office of county superintend- ent of public schools will fall to the probate judge, and the work of the clerk of the board of supervisors falls on the recorder, and this change is supposed to go into effect on the first of September, when the farce of being a frst-class county will cease. From the assessment roll it would seem that the assessor has performed his duty in an inn partial manner, and the board of equalization will have few changes to make.
 The 1894 dollar with a "C" on it is the one which entities the holder to free trip to the St. Louis fair. They were made at Carson City and were recalled because there was not enough silver in them. So look out for the 1894 dollar with the lucky ''C" under the wreath below the eagle Miner