The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-09
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Bank Commissioner Reports
$9O,OOO,OOO In Kansas Banks.
Tax Assessors Find the Paltry
Sum of $3,23s,741.
is MISSING.
Sedgwick County Shows Only
$SO,O39 ON Deposit.

Shawnee County Has $2O4,OSS
I'm Local Banks.
Although according to Bank Commits
sioner Albaugh. the people of Kansas
have on deposit in Kansas banks over
ninety millions of dollars, the returns
of the assessors for all but eight small
counties in the state certify that the
taxpayers of the state have only $3,-
1884, cash in bank. According to the
assessors, this is only 50 per capita in
the state. According to the bank COM
missioner, the people of the state have
s63.20 apiece on deposit in the banks.
The question is. who owns that $751;
0O0,O 900 on deposit in Kansas banks
which no one has reported to the asses
sors for taxation.
There are four counties in the state
which report no money whatever on
hand. These four are Gray. Morton,
Russell and Stanton.
The county reporting the largest
amount of money is Shawnee. Shawnee
reports 1904. .0sS cash on hand. wyan-
dottee where Kansas City. Kan. and all
the big packing houses are located, re-
ports to the assessors that it has only
$44,720 in cash distributed among its
people.
Sedgwick county has $S0,039. This IL
the location of Wichita, which claims to
be a wealthy city.
The following counties are the only
ones in the state which acknowledge to
having more than 100000 in cash in the
possession of their people:
shawnee ...-.-----.----- ..$zO4,O5o
brown 11fst stSS
CONVEY ......-.--.--- .......-...-- L4,4Oz
Marshall .-...-..-.-. .-.-.-..-... 1106SS
Douglas .............. ........-... 10S,Sl3
crawford ..--.......... ........-. 1O5o5o
SHAWNEE'S HIGH RANK.
Shawnee county takes first rank
among the other counties of the state
in assessed valuation. Its personal
property assessment is highest, its farm
land assessment is highest, and it is only
81, 500, 900 less than Wyandotte on the
total valuation of town lots.
The valuation of personal property va
ries greatly in different counties. 1t will
be the duty of the board of equalization,
when 1t meets. to adjust and reconcile
these differences. There are also some
remarkable discrepancies in the valua-
tion of lands. For instance, Allen coun-
ty land is assessed at an average of $40
per acre, while Jefferson county land,
which is counted as about the best in
the state is assessed at an average of
$6.5S per acre. Pianos in Cheyenne
county are worth on an average of 60 20
while in other counties they go as hlgn
as 500. There will have to be some fix
ing done to make the various counties
more equitably assessed, and at the
same time leave the total assessment of
the state the same as it now is.
The total s~ea-s,a valuation of all the
property in the state can not yet De
determined, because there are eight
counties still missing from the returns.
One of the counties which was missing
Wednesday-El -Ellsworth-came in this
morning.
PERSONAL PROPERTY.
The six counties in the state which
rank highest in personal property valu-
alton are as follows:
Shawnee NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .$33S1, 495
Wyandotte ........ -.......-..- S,159,zzU
Sedgwick .............. .-.....- lS44,65l
Butler ------...... .-.-.----.-- 1s4oo'S9o
Leavenworth .......... .-.-.-..- I4z6,OlS
Keno --...--.--. .--.---..------- A'ooo'N7S
FARMING LANDS.
1t is rather surprising that Shawnee
county should take the first rank in the
total value of it's farming lands. This
is due to the fact that the proximity
of the farm lands to Topeka ADDS 10
their value. 1t is likely that part OF the
assessed value of Shawnee county farm
lands will be cut off by the board of
equalization, because of the great dam
age done along the Kaw valley by the
flood. If this is done, 1t Will probably
place Sedgwick county in the lead for
the nlEneST IOldl dSSCSSC0 NdAA0NAch ~
farm lands. The five counties in the
state which rank highest in the total
value of farming lands are these;
shawnee ......... .......-.... 50, Gal, $50
Sedgwick ....... ......-...---.. 3,923, l3a
Reno ..-..... ......---.-.-...-.- S,l5o'ooS
Mcpherson ..... ......-.-..-.-.. o'oo5'2aSS
T,von OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 3,475,7S2
TOWN LOTS.
wvandotte county takes first rank in
the total value of it's town lots, but this
! is because it has so many lots The
averape value of town lots in Wyan-
| dotte county is $14S64, while the average
value of town lots in Shawnee county IS
| S17e e5. Leavenworth has the highest
average valuation on town lots, 1t oelng
$241.77. -.
lots in some of the leading counties OF
the state is as follows:
No. Lots. Total Value.
uvandotte 69, 200 SIC, $50, 159
shawnee 49,. .49.S3S S.9oe' Soa
Sedewick ...s6 901 4.371 ,2SS
LeavenWorth ---24lat t'1So'911ee 20
Bourbon .--.-lz'SSS 1'c1I -oy
AtchisOn ---- ''AVo
RAILROAD ASSESSMENT.
wvandotte county takes first rank
in the matter of railroad assessIllSne' Ils,l.'
hut the railroad assessments run toler-
ahlv even for the whole state Ihero
| is long list of counties that nave a
rai1road assessed value of over $1,0OO,-
OOO They are as follows:
e. Se5Sr1,siclr ... -. l. ,456 ASH
Sba9rrea ...... I 40s 913
Reno . -. 1878, ,434
I.esslv 7 Iesyenworth ......... 1,314.615
- 1890 ttl " . 49, 1881, ,041
i1sciSinson 80. 49,. 1.046797
! 0--,a-,, . OBJ, PAL
B,tIa1 4ouui Do-- .. 223, ,733
Sherolxee ........ :. 1.052.703
CnI,-,eD - .... ,39S,75
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