The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-11-30
GETS USUAL BOOST.
Assessment Committee Of County
Board Makes Annual Report
to Board on Friday
CITY TO BEAR BIG INCREASE.
Total Assessment is Not as Large as
Last Year But the Valuation for
the City is Raised Very
Near $4,000

The assessment committee of the
county board Of supervisors after ten
days of work rendered its report to
the board at the session on Friday
afternoon and the report will be of
considerable interest to the tax payers
in all parts of the county. Taking
the cue from reports of other years
the committee has made the usual
boost in the assessment of the city in
the amount of the increase being
nearly $50, 900.
Kenosha has company in the boost
among the towns of the county, but
when it is stated that the assessed
valuation Of the property in the
county for this year IS less than it
was a year ago it will be seen that the
large burden has been placed on the
tax payers in this city. The amount
of taxes to be paid on this assessment
is, of course, small but the principal
behind the thing will certainly APP
peal to the people of the city who are
forced to pay even the small amount
of state and county tax.
This year the assessed value of the
property in the city for taxable pur-
poses is placed at $500, 941, while a
year ago under larger valuation for
the county the assessment for the city
was but 81, 1862. 798. The entire va1u-
alton of the property of the county
for this year is placed at SIS, 859, 626,
and last year it WAS $50, 161, 1913. From
an examination of these figures it
will be seen that the committee has
asked that the people of the city pay
considerable over one-half Of the en-
tire taxes to be assessed against the
county. The increase of the valuation
of the pro perty in the city is not even
in keeping with the comparison of
figures given by the assessors in the
country towns and in the city.
Thesreport shows that the.town of
Brighton has been reduced over $780,
coo. The town of Bristol has reduc-
tion of SIS, 900, Paris has reduction
of almost So, 900, Pleasant Prairie
is let out with small reduction of
$40, 900, while Wheat1and is let down
about $4,000. In Salem there is
cause for complaint as the reduction
is only a little over $4,000. Somers
also came in for ashare Of the amount
that was Topped out here, the largest
reduction being made. The reduction
in Somers is placed at nearly $71, 600.
Poor little Randall in the west end
of the county where the assessor tried
to return an honest assessment, fails
in the class with Kenosha and gets a
boost of $4,000. Randall should feel
its importance in being the only town
in the countysswhich was thought. to
rank with Kenosha.
It is possible that:some increase in
the city and reduction in Somers
and Pleasant Prairie could be iusti-
fed by the fact that the city has
taken in quite little territory from
these towns, but it is exceedingly
difficult to see how these annexations
should have affected the towns in the
western part of the county. The
committee was composed of three
country members and two from the
city.
In making the reportsit was stated
that the report was based on asses
sors reports, sale values and such
other information as the committee
was able. to obtain. This other infor-
nation is supposed, by the report, to
have come largely from the towns of
Paris, Salem and Brighton, while it is
just possible that Bristol contributed
little Of the information.
The report of the committee as com
pared with the report of 1904 is as fol-
lows: