Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-30
SCORCHING ARRANGEMENT IS MADE OF TERRITORIAL BOARD OF EQUALIZATION
 EVILS UNTOUCHED ARE POINTED OUT
How the Board Members Finally got InlGr Cover rom
 the Lirt They had Done

 a non-dividend paying property to pay fully one-half of the cOunty's taxes. The total levy was about $2,lO0 900. of which the company was assessed prac- tically S563 900, leaving 1537 900 for all other property in the county of Gila
 Even at the figures quoted above, adding the cost of improvements and deiucting the assessed value of pat ented mines owned by others in the county. the Old Dominion company would be assessed for approximately s1 .250O0O of a total of S2.100000.
 The latter amount is what the super visors deemed ample to produce the necessary revenue to keep the county in a healthy financial condition for the current year and leave a little surplus over all obligations.
 What business has the board of equalization to say that the tax levy shall be raised above our require ments?
 The Territorial Rate.
 It was natural for the supervisors to suppose that the great increase of ten or more millions in assessed vslu-
 
 in the rate of taxation. Judge their surprise at being notified that the rate for Territorial purposes would be 95 cents on the hundred dollars of as sessed valuation for the coming year
 No. the Territorial government must take its heavy toll, just the same, and if the supervisors wish to decrease the rate below the s4 mark of last year they must do it out of the cOuntj era of the bag. More equaliza lon.
 What is this money needed for? What is the purpose of maintaining this high rate on the inflated valua- jiuu?
 A Sample of Equity.
 We have outlined the condition of the Old Dominion company in order to contrast it with another cO p0ra- tion in the matter Of g.aii E.: rating The United Verde mines have pro duced millions of mCney. which has gone out of the Territory into the coffers of Senator W A Clark. its principal owner. IL has been paying proposition fer meny years. There is no doubt that t has disburseI much more than the total valuation of the Old Dominion property. enormously quoted in Phoenix a- ter millions Its value is commonly referred t0 ir Phoenix and other journals at fifty or more millions. and rh9 assessment is placed at about double that of JIe Old Dominion.
 There's equity for you with a ven geance-
 If the bullion tax biTI before the last eglslature-0penly advocated by Cen. eral Thomas F. Wilson. now one of the board of equalization-who was placed in his position to make sure of ma jority for this jump in assessed val ues, had become a law what would be the comparative positions of these two corporations on the tax roll?
 But Maricopa Smiles.
 Maricopa is rejoicing because there will be more revenue to spend at the capital, and as long as the other coun ties pay the bills she is happy. Her mines are few and far between and the taxes paid into her coffers by her own ores do not cut any appreciable figure If Maricopa was in Yavapai's shoes, or, better still, in those of O. chise, a howl would go up to beat the JraIneQ coyote panQ al Lne injustice and some very hard names would be freely hurled at all connected with the iniquity. But she grows garden sass and sich" with which to feed the min ing people, and her farm lands have been practically exempted from the in. crease. Phoenix wants the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific to make her a great railroad center. and therefore she must say or do nothing to rile the road push, so she joins the claque vigorously and cries: Encore! en cOrei'