The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-29
Nearly a Half Million
Property Gain.
FIGURES ENCOURAGE
Gain in Polls, Property, Horses, Mules
and Cattle, While There is Only a
Decrease in Hogs, Sheep, Goats,
lacks and jennets, The Excess
Surprising That Of 1904.

ward splendidly in prosperity is
shown by the record of the listing for
taxes of property, the grand summary
of this having just been completed in
the Register of Deeds office.
The gain in real and personal prop
erty is especially gratifying, for it
shows that for the present year there
has been a gain of nearly half mil
lion dollars over the record for 1904,
the exact figures being s45S,432
gain of $176,348 in real estate values,
and of $2S2,084 on personal property.
The gain i'm 1904 over 1908 was
$213,075, this being $71, 456 on real es-
tate and $141,619 on personal proper
ty. The 1905 gains over those of 1908
amounted to $671.507, this being
S247,804 on real estate and $423,7U5
on personal property. A comparison
of the total gains on property of $213,-
O75 of 1904 over 1903 and of $45S,-
432 of 1905 over 1904 show that the
increase in 1905 over 1904 more than
double the increase of 1904 over 1903.
That is gratifying record and shows
that Wake is on a steady line of i'm
provement.
There is a gain shown also in the
polls reported the number having in
creased from 1860 in 1904 to 1851 In
1905, a gain of II. In 1904 the
amount of taxes from polls as assessed
was $20,O70.66 there being a slight in
crease for this year. Other gains to be
noted are 1913 more horses, SO more
mules and 81 more cattle. The losses
are 10 jacks and jennets, the number
falling from 81 to 2, the decrease in
goats being 20 from 215 to 145, the
decrease in sheep so, from COS to els,
and in hogs 1903, from 1905 to 49,
2O2.
From the statistics given the calcu-
lation is made that the average values
of horses i'm the county is $6S, and
there are 1898 of these, worth $231,-
go; of mules SIS, these numbering
1890, total value $319,127; of cows
$13 eacE.
The grand total of taxes laid in the
county, not including Raleigh town
ship. where there is delay, waiting
on the Corporation Commission, IS
14,501.S1 State tax, $12, poll
tax: S1O,4O7.72 school tax, $13,680.ST
county tax, S7,21S.6S road tax, $59S.6S
railroad bond tax est. Matthews and
Marks Creek), making grand total of
taxes for all townships outsider Raj
eigh township of 5S,S5067. The taxes
for Raleigh township will show an in
crease over 1904, when the amount
was $104,653.06, the total for the
county in 1904 being $161, 592.22, and
this increase for Raleigh township is
apt to make the amount something
like $4,000, bringing up the total
taxes for the county to the neighbor-
hood of $168.0 600. In Raleigh in 1904
the total value of real and personal
propertywas $S,420,381 of which the
whites owned $79S7,943 and the col
ored $43243S, the total taxes in Raj
eigh township being $104, 653.06. In
the county in 1904 in addition to the
valuation of $13,940,723 on real and
personal property there was corpor-
ate excess reported by the State Aud
tor of $150,943, and the railroad. tel
ephone and telegraph companies ST..
944,636 reported by the Corporation
Commission, the total for the county
being $16,035,S52 the taxes being from
the county $161, 1922, from corporate
excess $1,193.03 and from railroads,
telegraph and telephone companies
$11,2S696, a total of taxes for 1904 for
Wake of $174,072.21. When the re-
port is received from the Corporation
Commission then the total taxes fo~
the county will be known, and this
will be found to largely exceed those
of 1904.
The grand summary of taxable
property of all kinds for 1905 with the
values of these is as follows:
Polls. 1851 against 1850 in 1900;
acres of land. SIS, 173, value 4,529,34i
number town lots. 9741, value $5,473.-
1874 total value real properly,
$1O,O09,248; number horses. 1898
against 1920 in 1000 vaule $2,310.30
number mules 1920 against
403 In 1904, value $319,127; number Of
jacks and jennets, against p in
1000, value $3.50; number goats. l45
as against 215 in 1904 value $1S2;
number cattle, 1861 Gas against TO-
lisa in 1000, value $143,S34; number
hogs, 1902 Gas against 1905 in
1900, value. value. $54,9O1; number
sheep, 61S Gas against COS in 1900,
value $500; number dogs. S5S, value,
$4,000.
Number bicycles 239, value $1.692;
value farming utensils, $42,531' me-
chanics tools. $10,915; household and
kitchen furniture, wearing apparel and
libraries. $3S3,213; provisions $50
167: firearms, S1S,S16; scientific in
struments, $5,981.
Money on hand. $265,137 solvent
credits. $1,1OS,545; money in stocks.
$96,383.
Value cotton, $192,106 tobacco,
s349; brandy and whiskey. 1897.
Value musical instruments, $90,7Sl;
plated and silverware, $25,O96;