The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-29
PROPERTY
VALUATION /.
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The State Corporation Commits
sion Makes Interesting
Report.
CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS Il / Il. s: B |:
HEADQUARTERS
CAMPAIGN.
Watts Law Not a Paramount
Issue, But Will be Defended
BY the Democrats.
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Especial to The Times Dlspatch)
RALE1GH. N. c., July Is .-The North
Carolina Corporation Commission made
E public to-day their rcassessment Of rail-
I roads. telegraph and telephone lines.
street railways ana other quasi public
Il corporations for the 1904 tax assessment
| The statement shows that there are
\ s75o.ss miles OF railroad In the State
/ valued for taxes at $50, s3a 07S.s1, being a
Z gain OF 50 miles and $4,000 In valuation.
1 The principal systems and their valua--s
tIon are: Atlantic Coast Line, 47.s3 miles.
valued at s24,45s0l4; seaboard Air Line.
4 G1212 miles. valued at sl2,5oo,oo0; South
crn Railway, ss9.4l miles, at S14,7S5, go;
Tor owned lines, and 690.15 miles at fl1,-
\ b75 $780, for leased lines; 81 miscellaneous
4 lines OF railroads, 063.58 miles at {6,2lS, :
Z 4io.6l: ~ g 4 # 4. ,f e. Fl 81
The valuation OF quasi public CORPORA
/ tons aggregates 1885,. 1852 which added
Ito the railroad valuations, giyes a grand
total Of a;74,3 77, 52212 ia x + aluatlons as
sessed by the commission, an increase OF
1 SIS. 1886. over the assessments for last
\ year. Some OF the most notable other
/ than railroads are Western Union Tele-.
\ graph Company, 1919 II telephone COM
/. panic $623 .702 n Southern Express Com
II pany, s4os, 100: H Pullman Car Company,
Il slGS, 4o1 electric light and gas companies,
Us :a5, SEQ: street railway colnpa 81 SOL
| 100; water works companies. Us :
Il steamboat companies. s179. 6oo; Pridge and
canal companies, s222. 500; refrigerator
& companies. slc4, 032. I'LL 81 s5
4 Tho commission will at once certify
Il the commissioners of the several coun-
ties IN the State the valuations OF these
various properties In the respective coun-.
Il ties for the collection OF taxes. Meek
lenburE leads with $2.26s, 1881 and Gull
ford is second with 81, 235. $50. g. and Wake
n county IS third, with 81, 1874. 73l .S5. 6
THE CAMPAIGN.
State Chairman F. NJ. Simons has
rented rooms on the first floor 81 the
D old Carrollton Hotel, on Fayetteville
4 Street. as Democratic headauarters for
II The Impending campai On. lie L says the
A cam paign will not open until about Sop
u TENDER LIST, but that State Secretary
Field viii open the headquarters here;
Y within two weeks. s55tS is
Robert d. Glepp, Democratic nomlnce
for Governor, who spent the past two
4 days bere, gays he has only three 2 n
polntInents at this time for campaign
speeches. He will be at RI Wentworth,
Rocking ham county. August %; at shn.l
Il ron. In Mecklcnburg county, Aug ustt
4 August 18th
B 81 did not intend Il to sa ". W. said State
II Chairman Simmons to- day, I'm lSs ~ y
speech before the State Democratic FIX,
secutiye Committee tuesday night that
$$SSt ne Watts law Is a paramount Issue in!
the campaign In this State There is
no paramount issue, but q number OF
Very important issues q The Republicans y
Is have made the Watts act an issue and
1t our position as Democrats IS that Of
the defense OF our egislation. Reptb-s
leans have espoused the liquor traf-
# fic.' IA "a szs i.ie fi @
Francis d Winston, Democratic nonli-
uce for Lieptenant-G Governor, will spend
VI the next two weeks ia beaufort, assist
81 ing state Chairman Simmons In the
preparation of a Demo crat ic hand book
II to be used In the In pending campaig en-
It Is re issued within a month.
Application has been made to the
j Southern Railway Company for a spe.
cial train from Selma to ASH vi le. Au-}
z gust goth, for the accommodation Of Con-
N federate veterans attending the annual;
reunion in Asheville August Both and
Z Slst. "a rate of one cent mile has all
Il ready been secured on regular trains.S
The people OF Asheville are TO furnish
free entertainment In their homes. 81
inc dale lOr tlle tie<iltnh " lac fApp'1Fi
s cation for the writ of habeas corpus for
Il Charles Wilkins, accused of billing Gray
\ speight. has been changed by Chief JUS
+ tiee5 Walter Clark to Sa turday instead OF
Friday. The murder was In Goldsboro,
= aud some sensational clopnents are
expected at the hearing here. Wilkins
viii attempt to prove an alibi. and It
will be developed that shortly besore the
fatal cutting Of speig hit he had SLAPPED
I a small negro boy and the lad Is father
3 had taken the mat ter up. The proba-t
inflicted the fatal Wou nds, will he urged.
STRONG PLEA FOR BREEsEI