The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-11-14
Supervisor of Assessments Re-
ports Assessments More Sat.
isfactory Than Before
THE INCREASE IN CITY LARGE
Many of the Towns Have Also Come Up
to the Demand of the Supervisor
Caustic Comment on the AS
sessment in the Report

The annual report of William II.
Harrison, Supervisor of Assessments
| for the county, was made public on
Thursday, and it contains the usual
amount of interesting information.
In general the supervisor reports that
the assessments made in the county
are very satisfactory. He refers es
pecially to the work done by the as
SCISSORS in the towr of Randall and
compliments the Kenosha assessors
on the increase that has been made to
the assessment rolls of the city dur
ing the past year. In speaking of the
work the supervisor says:
"The assessors in the city district
have secured quite an addition to the
value of personal property from the
factories, but they should have in
creased the assessment of the Central
Leather Company's assessment on at
least 81, 100000 I cannot reconcile
myself to the fact that beca use prop
erty is large it should go to the as
sessment roll at 40 per cent. or less
when the whole district averages over
80 per cent. While have not aword to
say personally against any assessor
in the county, they are all estimable
men, I do believe that having accepted
| public trust, and taken an oath to
execute that trust, firmly believe
that instead of following the habit of
copying the old roll at some per cent
of full value with few exceptions)
that the descriptions of property
should be furnished them without the
| former valuation and we would have
more equitable valuation, and that
the assessors would try to use their
best judgment in placing a value in
stead of using those made the former
year or years.
GAS you will remember by my for
mer reports, l have not been satified
with the assessment of the Jefery
Automobile Company or the Central
Leather Company, am pleased to
note that the Jeffery Company re-
turned $6O7, 900 personal this year, as
against $1,000 in 1906 and 5000 in
1905. And if said plant is not upon
the roll at the same per cent as the
city and Somers district, there is no
one to blame but your assessors, for
they certainly knew this year what
that value was; also with the Central
Leather Company plant and personal
property. The sale value was pub
lished and the same was not disputed
and the testimony of the president of
said company as to what they paid for
said property was known by said as
SCISSORS, and it should have been put
upon the roll on the same basis as
other property instead of SO per cent
of it.
find, in taking the assessors
Judgment IN the town of Somers, that
property is decreasing in value in
that district. In the town of Pleasant
Prairie there was no farm machinery;
l found $4,000 worth and placed it
upon the roll. In other words, l have
endea vored to use all districts alike.
''In regard to moneys, notes and &C
counts, there is too much difference
in the amounts returned for assess
ment in the different country dis
tricts, ranging from $1,000 to 500, 693,
and the larger amount from the
smaller district of the county. am
inclined to think that a little per-
severance on that line would secure
more.
81 am pleased to note that the feel
ing heretofore existing that we would
not be fairly dealt with in comparison
with other counties does not now ex-