The southern sentinel., 1907-08-30
EQUALIZATION BOARD
ADOPT TIMBER RATES
The Schedule for Timber Land
Assessments and Prices on
Personal Property.


On last Saturday the Board of
Equalization adopted the timber
lands assessment. As this parish
is largely a timber country this
report is given in full and is as
follows:
Your committee on equaliza-
ton of timber lands respectfully
reports the result of its labors as
embraced in the accompanying
tables, which are made part of
their reports. We have equal
lied by adding to and deducting
from the aggregate assessed
values of lands as returned by
the several assessors, such rate
per cent. from the assessed value
thereof in every parish in which
we believe the valuation to have
been too high or too low, so as to
bring each class to its propol-
tionate value. In equalizing the
assessment of pine lands We have
classified the same in three
classes, that is, all lands which
will cut as much as 10000 feet
per acre stlmpage or more as
class A, and fixed the assessed
valuation at SIT per acre. All
pine lands that will cut as much
as 5000 aud not more than
10000 feet stumpage per acre, as
class B, and fixed the assessed
valuation as equalized at $l2 per
acre. All pine lands that will
cut not as much as 5000 feet per
acre stumpage we place in class
& and fix the assessed valuation
of same as equalized at s. per
acre. Denudcd pine lands we
recommend be fixed for purpose
of equalization at the same value
as now fixed by the several as
SCISSORS throughout the state. In
equaIizing the assessment of
cypress lands we have classified
the same into three classes, viz:
A, B, and G., that is all cypress
lands which will cut 10000 feet
stumpage pe- acre, we place In
class A, and have fixed the
assessed valuation for equaliza-
ton at $40 per acre. All cypress
which will cut 5000 feet stump
age per acre anG not more than
10000 feet per acre, we place in
Glass B, and for the purpose of
equalization we have fixed the
assessed value thereof at $12 per
.acre. All cypress lands that will
cut less than 5000 feet per acre
We have placed in class G, and
for the purpose of equalization
have placed the assessed value
>thereof at S. per acre. All un-
timbered cypress lands we recon-
mend for the purpose o. equal
ization that the values which
have been placed on same by the
several assessors in the atate be
adopted and remain as they are.
AZ TO hardwood lands, We have
endeavored without avail to get
information sufficient to enable
us to classify same. therefore, we
recommend for the purpose of
eoualization that all hardwood
timber lands remain at the
nesessed value as fixed by the
o6yeral assessors throughout the
okake for the year 1907. From
the data presented your commit
- Ne feel wa. ranted and there
fore have classified the timber
Inads in the parishes of Winn
and CatahouIa as different class
u timber from any otLer~in the
5fate. We therefore place it in
clnss A 1. We recommend that
he timber land in the said two
marshes for the purpose of
<oualixation for the year 1907 be
.n6t changed from the assessed
value Is liked by the respective
nr1esssrs of the two above named
Sorishes. With this explanation
onr committee respectfully
zccomnnpds that the above clas-
16cafion and valuations respect
xSIy be adopted and made the
action Of the board for the year
1907.
Live stock, horses, mules.
Softle, vehicles, etc., are assessed
"A VIM perish as follows:
/. Horses, $780,. cattle, IS; mules,
80; veh,cIes. SIS. The yalua-
300 d |rsouaI property in the
6ksfe Is Increased 1896, ,343.
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! II so. N. &. BagwelI is your best
Is;end. He will take them of
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