Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-08-15

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 Gila county with a production one. seventh that of Coebise, has a mines assessment tl,a54 greater. Tbe,e is evidently some work here for A terri. torisl board of equalization to do.
 Measured by minsr~r production and assessment of mines, YsvspAi's con. tribation to the territory in 1908 wac fifteen times greater 'than that of Co ehise; e.7s times greater than that of Graham; and 2.es times greater than that of 0ils. Hence for that year -i,h. CT YaSspsi couniy's misss have . large ssx rebate due from the. territory, or the other eouu'ies' mists arc badly de. hnquen' in the payment of their just share of territorial tsn.. "'t',
 A comparison of the 1904 sssess. ments of large individual mineral pro. dueers of the territory is still more interesting, the most strikinR is. equality being between the United Verde of Yavapai and ,h. Copper Queen of Cochise. f''
 Averaged. assessed valuation %
 per claim, United Verde, ' e.
 1904 ..". ........ .s2o,eSs.oo Average assessed valuation '''
 per claim, Copper Queen, '' 1908 .,,.....,. ...,,.... 250.OO United Verde mines. contributed per claim to the territorial treasury in iso4. sa times as much as aid Copper Queen mines. t' "
 1 There nrc striking differences too. between the United Verde average aSd. the aver~e~ of, all the other large producers. but ihsve been nnabls to ess the exact figure. to compute from; therefore will fass them. . ..r-
 As between the United verl. an,, Copper Queen, eonditio6s in 1872 sud 1903 we're practically the same as in lso4, and in 1905, very little different.
 
 The purpose of this paper is not fc defend this years of any other year 's assessment of the United Verde Cop. per O., except as such d.fensr anerts favornbly the general defence sf Ys- vapai's 1906 mines sse~sa,esi- Al. though 1 made several assessments of this company's property, am willing 10 admit that. as compared with the ta- lue and profit returns of othst proper ty in Yavapai county, the Upit~'i Verde property should have been as sessed much higher than it is and has been. At the same time, l cauoo, help saying that if the unitsi Verde Co. deserves punishment for de,inqueu- cy in payment of taxes to its county and Co the territory, may God h~lp thv Copper queen. e'a ''.
 It is with these wide di6ewnees in assessments between the Unitei Verde and other large producers of the t~svi- tory that has made it difGcaIt, even impossible, to get that company fo ad init ar to stand for sn assessment oS their property jus, to the ottrr pro erty owners of Yavspai county. Thes certainly have had sufficient ground flor the belief that their properties wer' jbeing diseriminated against in the mat ltet of territosis 1 tax. They opposed large assessments on these grouuds, aad Iit must be admitted, with murh sus tiee. To this is due ihe perpetua , strife that has for some years rhisfe' between tbnt, company. aud the taxing powers of Ysvapai county.
 Detailed Ststsment No. ?.
 WS come now to the asSesssd vaioa tisus sS minss,-snd the values oi pro due, ion of tbe principal mineral Prodoe ing eoupties of the territory for I"o' in the same order as before, favaps leading in valuation, and 'o'h's' , comfortably in the year: lYavsyai mines -sssesrment ST. i"'oi3'o' |, Value mineral production So@o'ooo.o' !, Gr ham mihss sssA~sssht S3s,o32." I, Value rsjnsral ,.produsAieu SS73'ooo.o' D Giis .n,nsa4 4sssessmsnt .. 2%o'siS'"' !, Value miussal prodsssion +eioooo.@ Cocbise mines a~Sessmen' as3,ois'o' pl Value mineral production ld..s''ooo'" oI Dsdsctiuus from Above Stsurss.'' Il Ysyapai's mines assessment ih 10 pei 3 cent greater than tue combined a'~e'' msstS of tb, other ibves "onr"e' ns" . s.l, with product ons'four'h of eo'n1'"e' '. preduc, of these eo"n''e' . ,, Coehi.e county produced more 'o"' . twice as much as Ys,spai and re'ur"e' sS,h of Yavsyai's sssessneef