The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-05-02
Mr.. McVey: Well / have tried to

ago-if might repeat that logs, if
they are destined to go outside of
the state, and they are to be shipped
outside of the state, are assessed
wherever they are found in the
assessment district Wherever they
are found. If logs arein this county
and they are owned in this county
then they are assessed in this county.
They are not. however, assessed in
the district where they may be, but
they are assessed in the district
where the company has its Offices.
If logs are in this county and they
are owned, for instance in Mime
apolis, or in Croodston, or in St.
Cloud, or in Saltwater, and they are
cut and ready for shipment. then
those logs are assessed in Mime
apolis, St. Cloud, Saltwater, wherever
the companies have their offices. 1t
is unfortunate from many points of
view but such is the case, but that is
the law as it now stands. I can not
alter the law; you can't alter it
that is the situation.
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| think that practically covers the
question of the assessment of logs.
If logs are shipped in here from
another county, and are here on the
first day of May, and the owners of
them have their business in this
county, then the assessment is
against the company in this county;
wherever the company may be
located. Now that is the difficulty
that was referred to a few minutes
ago that the various boards of Equal
ization have wiped off assessments
against logs because the assessment,
that is they were assessed here, in
your district, where you found them
| and then they were assessed at the
office or in the district in which the
company had its offices.
For instance, the C. A. Smith
Lumber company, if may men
ton names, has its Offices in Min
neapolls, where they have logs
found in the Mississippi river,
those that are found on the various
streams in this county or other
counties, wherever they are, if
they are destined for manufacture
in Minneapolis, are assessed
gainst the C. A. Smith Lumber
company in Minneapolis, That is
the rule.
So on the other hand if logs that
come in here are found in Roseau
county, and belong to people liv-
ing in this county, they are assess
ed in this county; that is the law
and the rule Of assessment under
existing conditions:
I would advise you upon this
point: Where you find logs in your
district I should report them. I
should not make an assessment
against the company or individual
unless they were in my district; if
they were not in the district I should
notify the auditor that such and such
logs were held in that particular
town; value them according to the
best estimate that I could make of so
much, so many thousand feet. I
should notify the auditor that these
logs are supposed to belong to ABB
C Company, or whatever company,
and then the auditor can spread
them upon the books in the proper
places in accordance with the re-
quirements of the law.
That avoids any difficulty of can
ceiling assessments or further per-
haps of increasing the assessment in
the community when in reality it
will cut down the tax where the
assessment made gives double as
sessment.
An Assessor: Surprising it is
logging road?
Mr.. McVey: It is assessed where
the people live.
Mr.. Christensen: Now in this
same connection, along the Wilton
& Northern Railway, which runs
from Wilton where it forms a juno
ton with the Great Northern road
runs north along the line OF that rail-
way for twenty two miles, all the logs
and all the timber along that line
are owned by the Crookston Lumber
company, and I wish to call your
attention to this matter that they