The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-18
BIC INCREASE IN
TAXA II |. Values !. II. J /
North Carolina Adds Ten NJ: Mil
lionssin the" Last
Year.
TAX COMMISSION !! ". SO REPORT i
Sewing Machine Manager Leaves
Owing Every One and De
serts His Wife. ..)
( COMMISSION R !: lei Q i
fsne ci 3 e The TInes-Dispatch.)


81 RALEIGH, n. ..S December THE he
Corporation Commission. acting N K the
ca opacity OF a tax commission, issues q
statement or summary of property yalua
lions and taxes insthe State that makes
a, very interesting showing. ~ |. shows
that the total valuation or all property
In this state for 1901 Is s443, 2s2, ISL, q gain
of $751; ,9e3, 22a since 1898. and, as COM
pared with $433, 372, $50 In 1903. There are
90 1904, $50 acres Of land, with an average
value of s4.a2 per acre, Durham county
having the highest acreage, sis per acre !;
CASTOR second, at ,sl4.ea. Dare has low
est valuation. averaging $1,19 per acre,
rhe valuation Of real and personal prop
erty In the state Is sl2s,eo ,279. The yalu-
ations in some principal towns are: Dur '1ll'a
ham, s10,470,l73 (the highest; char TO tte.
50 6sl, SIS; Wilmington, s., 249. 766; Salisbury
s2,47e, 200 The total solvent credit in the
State As 3o,7o2olY, Forsythe being first
with sLir9l, 6s5; Wake second and MecSiien-
burg third, with $3.50, 721 The capital
stock Of banks Is s7,68a, 4ss, with %, 7So' elo
assessed value. Railroads are valued at
s70,6l2 ~. and other corporations at - so5, =
coz. rhn tot al indebtedness OF counties is
rs25l4 $50 and OF towns IS, bod 23s, MecRlel'-
burg has the largest OF any couH MY
s3S9, 800, and lAsheville the largest OF any
town, 500, 500. Charlotte owes $6!o'00;
Wilmington, 1914, LOO; Greensboro, s4u ''NN,
or county taxes. $198,724 remains uncol-
lected. and OF the town taxes, SID. 20 70;
.rhIrty-fo thousand nine hundred ana
dig nty-four polls are unpaid IN the. couil-
Ties and nearly double that NUMBER n
tho towns The reports shows that there
.i,rc S5S lawyers, 1872 physicians. 81 den
lists, 1856 merchants and ao3 corpora \
itlons in the state. (. N
In the report OF the tnS commission 10
Governor AycoclS, Just filed, 1t IS recon-
amended that poll tax he not allowed 70
exceed 81; that cities and towns pc not
allowed To levy any pol tax; that st'ttutes
Ia not passed authorizing y higher tax
rate than sixty-siX and two-thlfds Oh me y,
me hundred dollars. and that the mllnl-
clpal tax rate he so limited thar when
added To State and countS9taA " VII nv
lie coniiscatlon Of any class OF property,
$40 the best YOU can; You will never
SEQ me again wns tlls curt noto that
Alpheus Vaughn. for the past several
years manager of the Singer Sewing Ma
chine office here, left for bis WHO ms
llnorl,hc In leaving the city, itoweVeV,
.he did not leave even u word Tor any
Of his numerous creditors, who arc very
much STIRRED up, LII develops that ne
gave two mortgages on what property ne
had, and left owing nearly all the busl-
moss houses IN the city, He had benh
lmarried little more than year, ana ne
has no children, , ,,ra.-
i Tbe'annual report Of the BOARD o. nlls1s
tors and librarian NJ Raney Library sAnNs
that tho disbursements exceeded the ~
come by si.ds, ana the executive commit.
tee "a directed to appeal 10 the Board or
Aldermen Of the eitS for larger .appiro-
Eurlation. The library Was preseh'ed 20
The city by II, 10. Raney as Q nleinotlal
10 his wife. olivia coWper Raney, AZ a.
cost al $4,000, and the Aluern'er l'as sitp
per month for its SUPPORT