Bisbee daily review., 1907-08-09
TERRITORIAL TAX WILL PROBABLY
 BE LOWER
Member of Board of Equaliza- ton Believes That Rate Will Be 65 Gents This Year As Against 75 in 1906.
Special to Review.)

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 TOMBSTONE, Aug. S.-Chas. Bow man, member of the Territorial Board of Equalization from the First Judi cial district will leave next week for Phoenix to attend the meeting of the Territorial Board which meets on Tuesday next The board will go over the abstracts of the various as sessments as have been turned in by the clerks of the various boards Of supervisors of the different coun- ties of the territory. It is not ex- pected that the territorial board will make many changes in the assess ments. For a number of years past the assessment on min ing claims has been the bone of con tention between the various county boards and the territorial administra. ton, but as the Territorial legislature has made the tax nthe produc- lion of the mines this feature has been eliminated. Whether or not the Territorial Board will raise the value placed on the patented mines in this county by the County board or s15 per acre on patented mines, that are be- ing worked but not producers. and s5 per acre on patented mines not working, remains to be seen.- The county assessor, C. R. Howe. had these on the assessment roll at S20 and s1O respectively and the board when in session as a board of equalization made the proposed reduction, which will take off the assessment roll about $100,00O. t.-
 Outside of this feature it is doubt full if any change will be made in the assessments turned in by the county assessor as the valuations that have been placed on the various classes. of property throughout the county by Assessor Howe. will com pare most fayorabiy with those turned in by any other county in the terri tory.
 The Territorial Board will at it's meeting, fix the rate of the territory to be levied on each s10O valuation which is expected to be about G5 cents this year according to the views of Mir. Bowman. The rate last year was 5 cents, while the year befoFe it was placed at 95 cents.
 The county Board of Equalization will meet on Monday the 18th at which time they will act on the proposed raises made by the board during it's meeting in July. and listen to the pro tests and objections from those whom the board has not deemed assessed high enough and who were notified to be present and show why the raises should not be made. The raises made by the board were not many and in the most instances consisted of raises made on stocks of merchandise.
 The County Board will also at the meeting during this month fix the county rate of taxes. It is expected that the rate will be lowered nearly a dollar. The rate last year was S2.65 per hundred and this year the board will in all probability place the rate between s1.75 and S2.0O per hundred.
 Clerk of the Board of Superyis- ors Berner has not completed his es- timate of what the expenses of the county will be during next year for the benefit of the board to be used in fixing the tax rate. but will have it completed blythe time the board meets, Judging from the cost of the last fiscal year, 1t will take in the neignborhood of $250,O00. For the fis- cal year ending une 3Oth, the expense was s175, 5,553.76, of this amount S39.- 900 was for salaries, $12,00O for roads and bridges and $100,000 for schools. The estimate filed for the schools this year by Superintendent Rockefeller is Sl11 900