The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-17
RAISES RETURNS
NEARLY A MILLION
Board of Equaiization Puts Up
Assessment on Farm Ma.
!, cllhinery.

Further increases aggregatlaS ne.
| ly $1,000,000 were made by the Stale
board of equalization yesterday allel
noon in the assessed valuation Oh pc.
sonal property throughout the state. az
! this session the board took up Idrlli
tools, implements and machlne.y ,,
threshing machines and engines anu
| manufacturers tools, implements ana
machinery, considering all three ol
those classifcations together for pur-
poses of more intelligent comparison
with the assessment of last year, as
| the schedules are differently suool-
vided.
Returns Lower Than Last Year.
The records showed that the assess
ment of last year for property which
would come under these three classifi-
cations aggregated 5000, 600 whereas
the assessment returned for this year
was but S8,948,0 900, and the board de-
teTm1ned upon an increase throughout
In the returns for this year by counties
that would result in a raise Of 10 per
cent over the assessment of last year.
Having thus resolved the members pro-
ceeded to the detail Of their work and
each county was dealt with on the ba-
SIS of the assessment as fixed by the
board for last year, and its returns so
ADJUSTED as to advance that standard
10 per cent as nearly as possible.
In some cases the advance was plac-
ed entirely upon one, or perhaps two,
of the classifications under considera-
ton, but usually the same percentage
OF increase was applied to all three di-
Visions. The result was that in the
aggregate the three classes were adj
vanced from SS,94S, 900, as returned, to
| $4,000. 600. ssVie
| Ramsey County Raised IS Per Cent.
| Ramsey county had returned farm
TOOLS, implements and machinery, $751;
Div; threshing, machines and engines,
| $6,6SO; manufacturers tools, imple-
ments and machinery, including en-
glnes and boilers. $617,110; and those
hgures were increased Is per cent
throughout, making total advance of
SSo,S4S; Hennepin county's returns
showed farm tools, implements and
machinery, sf06,274; threshing ma
| chimes and engines. S6,9s4, and manu-
| facturers' TOOLS implements and ma
| chinery, $912,154. The first two items
were increased 10 per cent each. max
ing total increase of .$11,326. st.
Louis county returned farm tools, i'm
plements and machinery, $5,705
| threshing machines and engines, $3.50,
| and machinery, $591,01 and those fig
| ures were allowed to stand
Beltranni Boosted rs Per Cent.
/ Beltrami had returned but $3,7S9 of
Il farm tools, implements and machinery,
| and suffered an increase of 100 per cent
| on that item.
L The total assessment of Swift county
! for the three classes of property was
but 51,542. and the board increased
| that just Is per cent. y. sasl-s g
Cottonwood county was Increased 40
| per cent on a-total valuation of $72, 1853 /;
| Sibley county, 40 per cent on a total
| valuation Of $94,379; Crow Wing, 40
| per cent on a total valuation of $119,-
|. III; Mower, 80 f-3rper cent on $87, 440;
!. Sherburne, so per cent on $26,0O5, and
| the others in lesser percentage. 500 ~
I Throughout the sitting Of the board
| Hennepin county has been made the
| butt of much good-natured "joshing''
! on the part of the members who all
| seem to enjoy poking fun at Emerson
| Cole, the representative Of that district
| All sorts of ridiculous propositions to
J increase Hennepin's assessment are
| suggested, and all sorts of incongruous
! comparisons are made between Henne-
pin and the other counties. Mr.. Cole
| has come to take this all in good part
| and occasionally he has poked a
little fun at his own county. Yesterday
| he took flyer that cost the taxpayers
! Of Hennepin just $4,000. In the course
of the morning session it was remarked
that Hennepin had made no return on
| office furniture, and in tone of irony
| Mr.. Cole said: Well, why didn't you
push up the assessment on household
| furniture to make up for it,"
| President Sgnague took him at his
| word and putothe4 motion as coming
| from Mr.. Cole that Hennepin be in
! creased $4,000 on household furniture
| The motion carried.