The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-07-13
GREAT INCREASE
IN ASSESSMENT.
GAIN OF s25,ooo, 900 IN TAXABLE
WEALTH OF STATE.
Board of Equalization Meet in eien-
NAL Session and Organizes.

The State Board of Equalization
met in biennial session Monday and
organized by the election of Secretary
of State Morton as Chairman, and
Dibrell as Secretary.
Treasurer Reau E. Folk is the other
member of the Board. Geo. E. Blake
was reelected Clerk of the Board
Owing to the fact that there are about
twenty of the counties which have not
vet sent in the reports of the action
of the local Board of Equalization, the
Board did not begin its work The
reports are coming in very
rapidly, and are being tabu-
lated by Clerk Blake. The
Board will probably meet at a later
dav in the week and map out a pro
gramme for it's procedure. 1t is hoped
TO take I'D the counties in alphabetical
order and dispose of them in that man
ner. So far as now known the Board
will not strike any knotty problem I'M
til Knox County is reached. 1t is not
improbable that a session of the Board
will be held at Knoxville owing to the
Importance of the appeals in that
county.
Geo. E. Blake, Clerk of the Board,
is preparing a list of the counties
showing the comparative assessments
for last year and this year. So far
COMPARISONS have been made in TWEEN
tv-five counties, and with but two ex-
ceptions all show healthy increase
in the taxable values. Of the four
large counties Davidson is the only
one that has reported, the increase
in this county being notable, over ST.
415,OOO, as compared with last year.
This makes the total assessment or
Davidson county over $60,000,000, or
about $6OO0,0O0 above the Shelby
county assessment of last year I'm
til last year Davidson county led all
others in the amount of its taxable
wealth, but last year Shelby county
forged to the front with a larger as
sessment. 1t is hardly likely that it
will distance Davidson county again
this year
If the remainder of the State is to
be fairly judged by the counties in
which the figures have been tabulat-
ed the increase of the taxable wealth
of Tennessee over last year will not
be less than $25,OOO,OOO. This does
not. of course. include the assessment
of railroads and other properties which
are assessed by the Railroad Com
mission The two counties which
show a loss in the assessment as COM
pared with last year are Chatham and
Garter. the decrease in the latter is
only $4,000, while in the former it is
$4,000
II is believed that the average in
crease for the country counties will
be between 100000 and s150,0O0,
and the increase in the four large
counties will be sufficient to bring the
average for the State to upwards OF
s25O000 to the county, easily making
s25 900 900 for the State.
There was a notable increase in the
taxable wealth of Hickman county,
the per cent. of increase being as great
as that shown in Davidson county.
Giles county comes next with an in
crease of over 100000. The follow
ing is a list of the counties which have
been tabulated and the amounts or
the increased assessment:
Anderson, s134,OO0; Benton, $780,
900: Blount, $123.OOO; Campbell, $780,
900: Cannon, $4,000; Carroll, 1892
900: Clay. 100000; Coffee, $4,000;
Crockett. $4,000; Cumberland, 49,
900; Davidson, $7,415,OOO; Dickson,
s31, 900; Giles, $33OOOO; Granger, $S2,'
900; Greene, $4,000; Hamblen, 1885,,
900; Hancock. $4,000; Hardeman
s116.9e0: Haywood, $141 .000; Hender'
son, $4,000: Henry, 100000; Hick'
man. 1921 900: Humphreys, $4,000