Williams news., 1906-06-16
RAILROADS OF
 THE TERRITORY
Values Fixed by Board
 of Equalization. Big Raise

sign the minutes as soon as they are brought up to date. All the valuations have been agreed upon. Even the roads which have been built under the exemption acts were assessed, though in those cases it is not apprehended by the board that any effort will be made to col lect taxes on the assessments. Two | roads. the Grand Canyon railway and the Arizona & Utah road. are left in the air. While they were put on the assessment roll as tax payers, the matter is left open for a further hearing at the August meet ing, when they may be- removed. If not removed, the question of their lia bility to taxation may be removed by the courts.
 Both roads were built under ex- emption acts and both have been
 exempt. When the board met it
 was presented with petition from
 Coconino county to put the Grand
 Canyon road on the tax roll, on
 the ground that though the road
 was built by Lom bard, Goode x
 Co.,, the property had passed out of
 the hands of the benefciaries of the
 exemption act by foreclosure. It
 was further set forth that this com
 pany was organized under the laws
 of this territory which provides for the transfer of franchises and ex-
 emptions at private sale, but which prohibits their transfer by judicial
 sale. The board was divided on
 the subject, and so it was left open. The case of the Arizona & Utah
 road hangs on notice of intention
 alleged to have been lost in the
 hands of the territorial authorities. The original declaration of inten-
 tioa described a road from King
 man to the Virgin river, to which
 latter terminus it has never been 3 completed. In fact, about the time it was completed as far as Chloride, 2 the present northern terminus, the project of extending it any further 2 was abandoned, and President Nc Connico was warned by E. E. FL linwood, who was attorney for the road, that the former notice would not serve, but that there would ) have to be new notice of the road between Kingman and Chloride.
 He made out such a notice and
 sent it to MT. McConnico. This was
 in 1900. It is said that the notice ) was once in the office of the secre- tary, but that it had been sent to the office of the auditor, and that afterward it was submitted to the attorney general. It is only cer- tain that the notice cannot be found anywhere in the archives.
 There was a general increase in assessments which it is estimated will amount to about 50 per cent over the railroad valuations of last year. The chief item in this in- crease is made in the raise of the Southern Pacific, whose assessment last year was $7,125.O45 mile, to $11,O ,OOO this year. The total val uation of this road last year was $2, ,796, ,5SO.35. This year it is $4,- . 317 800.
 There was no increase in the as- sessment of Pullman cars; on the contrary a reduction of standards of from $6,OOO to $5,OOO; tourist cars remain the same, $1 800. The total valuation is $1OO,22O61.
 Following are the assessments of
 the various roads:
 Southern Pacific, 1925 miles, , , $11 OOO a mile.
 t Ell Paso & Southwestern, S6.3
 miles, $7,6O0 mile (last year $6.-
 75O); total valuation track and
 other property, $655,SSO
 Gila Vally, Globe x Northern, 124.3 miles, $6.OOO Qast year $3,- , 12S.7O); total valuation track and
 other property, $745,SOO
 Morenci Southern, IS miles, $3,-
 697 22 (last year $3.65555); total