Arizona republican., 1906-06-08
RAILROADS
 OF ARIZONA. Values Fixed by Board of
 Equalization
Figures Net Yet Completed Show aA Increased Assessment sf Nearly Fifty Per Cent.

The work Of the territorial board of equalization was practically completed yesterday afternoon and an adjourn ment was taken until this morning to allow the members to 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 exemption acts were assessed, though in those cases 1t Is not apprehended by the board that any effort will be made to collect 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 taxpayers, the matter is left open for further hearing at the August meeting, when they may be removed. If not removed. the question of their liability to taxation may be removed by the courts.
 Both roads were built under exemp- ton 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 had been built by Lombard, GOOde & Co. the property had passed out of the hands of the beneficiaries of the exemption act by foreclosure. It was further set forth that this com pany was organized under the law of this territory which provides for the transfer of franchises and exemptions at private sale, but which prohibits their transfer by a judicial sale. The board was divided on the subject, and so it was left open
 The case of the Arizona & Utah road hangs on a notice of intention alleged to have been lost in the hands of the territorial authorities. The original declaration of intention described a road from Kingman to the Virgin river, to which latter terminus it has never been completed. In fact, about the time 1t was completed as far as Chlor- ide, the present northern terminus the project of extending it any further was abandoned, and President McConnico was warned by F. E. ElIinwood. who was attorney for the road. that the former notice would not serve, but that there would have to be a new notice of the road between Kingman and Chlor- ide. He made out such notice and sent it to Mir. McConnico. This was in 1900. It is said that the notice was once in the office of the secretary. 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 certain that the notice cannot be found anywhere in the archives.
 There was a general increase in as sessments which it is estimated will amount to about 50 per cent over the railroad valuations of last year. The chief item in this increase is made in the raise of the Southern Pacific, whose assessment was last year $7,I25.O45 a mile, to S11,0O0 this year. The total valuation of this road last year was g, 796,5S0.35. This year it is s4,317, ,5OO.
 There was no increase in the assess ment of Pullman cars; on the contrary a reduction on standards of from $6.O0O to S5, GOO; tourist cars remain the same. s1 1.5OO The total valuation is s1OO 22O.61
 The following are the assessments of the various roads:
 Southern Pacific, S92.5 miles, s11OOO mile.
 Fl Paso and Southwestern. s6.s miles. S7,6OO d mile. Oast year S6, 6,75O); total valuation track and other property, $655. .SSO.
 Gila Valley Globe ana Northern, 124.3 miles. s6,OOO Oast year. $3,12s.7O); total valuation track and other prop erty. $745,sOO.
 Morenci Southern. IS miles, SS,697.22, OtdSI year, &5,b55.55). total including track and other property, t6s, ,55O.
 Maricopa and Phoenix, 4249 miles. s5.75O, 0ast year, $4,97O.4S); total $244,- S17.5O, track and other property.
 Arizona and New Mexico, 40 miles, $5,65O, 0ast year, $5,5O4.5O); total track and other property, $226,OOO.
 New Mexico and Arizona, SIS miles. $5,000, 0ast year, $4,249.SO): total valu- ation track and other property, s439.- OOO
 Central Arizona, 15 miles, s2,OOO; total valuation, %3O.OO0.
 Saginaw and Manistee, If miles. s2.- 900, Oast year. $1,O54166): total valua- | ton, s2S.OOO.
 United Verde and Pacific, 27.S miles, S5,000, Qast year, s4,O29 .304); total vaIu- tion, track and other property, $136 800. |
 Coronado line (Arizona Copper com i pany), 7.5 miles, $2,5OO; total valuation !, SIS. 75O.
 Grand Canyon Railway company. 66.45 miles, $4,500; total valuation rracH and other property, $299.O25.
 Western Arizona Railway company, | (Arizona and Utah) 21.57 miles. s. 546.59; total valuation track and other ! property, $76,5OO.
 Arizona and Colorado. 15.S miles, s2,- ] 900; total valuation track and other | property, S31 500.
 Congress Consolidated Mines road. | 5.6 miles, total valuation of track and | other property. $6.55O.
 Cananea Yaqui River and Pacific | (real estate in Naco), $2,7OO.
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 OPERATOR BLUNDEREn