Bisbee daily review., 1905-07-30
cocHlsE COUNTY SUPERVISORS AND TAXING MINES

 the cattle companies with about s2OO,- | 900 raise. but did not touch the rich l mining companies. which are assess ed less than ten per cent of their act ual cash value. The Cochise county board of supervisors are warm bunch.-Phoenix Enterprise
 The editor of the Phoenix Enter prise is evidently not familiar with the assessment of the mines in Cochise county. otherwise he would not, in the above Tiippart manner, refer to the matter
 h the first rlace Cochi1e county iz. essentially a mining county. Each and every industry in the county is dependent directly or indirectly, upon the success and welfare of the mining industry. Cochise county cares little about the condition of crops in the Salt River valley and the same rule works both ways; Maricopa county cares little about the mining industry of Cochise county. It has always re- mained for some farmer of Maricopa county. or sheep man, from Navajo, to take the lead in legislation averse to the best interests of the mining industry and endeavor to tax them out of existence or to set the price so high for engaging in the development ,F sv, l, ist would first look elsewhere. It is due to this selfish. jealous disposition when it comes to legislation affecting this industry, that Arizona has today no equitable method of assessing its mines, so that each rich mining cor poration in the territory will be com pelled to pay according to its produc- tion
 This same spirit is evidenced in the editorial paragraph above quoted. The editor of the Enterprise would like te see the mining men soaked" and sets up the opinion that Cochise county mines are at present assessed for ten per cent of their value He doesn't specify any particular mines and leaves the question open as to wheth- CT he means patented mines, unpat- ented claims. active producers or. claim locations.
 For the information of the Phoenix brother. who is trying to tighten the load of his alfalfa subscribers. we rise to remark that the mines of Cochise county are assessed in 1905 for about what all the remaining mines in the territory are assessed for.
 In addition the mines of the Copper Queen company are assessed this year for five hundred thouzand dollars 4aore than in 1904 and in all Cochise county has increased her assessm ent three million dollars.
 Can Maricopa county say as much?
 With this good showing, the tax payers. large and small alike, are well pleased. It is a fitting index to our rapid growth and prosperity and the tax rate in Cochise county this year will be lower than ever before in it's history
 Now comes the Salt River editor and tries to scold the board of super visors of Cochise county. He desires the mines in this county, any and all kind of mines, assessed at ten times their present figure and it is an even bet that he does not know what the i present figure is. And right there the problem is raised. Take the Copper I Queen assessment as an example this year. Last year this company paid on an assessment of s1,483, ,610.41 This year it is assessed for $2,O39, ,914S2. This is an increase of more than half a million dollars for this one mining company, not to mention the others. The Phoenix editor says that this is Ione-tenth of the value of the Copper ! Queen holdings.
 If the editor will now tell his read CTS how he arrived at the value of the l Copper Queen mines, the whole ques ton of assessing the mines of the ter ritory will be solved
 There is no established rule to g by. Some of the patented mines are producers and some are not. Some were in 1903 and have since beer . abandoned How is the assessor tc
 arrive at the value, and walk around , among a group of claims, assessing this at a million, that at one-half 6 million and another three millions The editor of the Enterprise guesse: that the mines of Cochise county arg worth ten times their present valua
 ton. Will he tell his readers why he did not guess that they were wortf twenty times their present valuation | Cochise county had 8 taste of guess ] ing at valuations of mines when the , mines of this county were assessed al