The Globe-republican., 1908-06-18
RAILROAD TAX
WILL Be PAID IN TO FORD
COUNTY ON THE FOLLOW
ING VALUATIONS
TAX COMMISSION FIGURES
Raise Valuations Of Railroad
Property in Ford County
to Sum Five Times
Greater than Last
Year.

Rock Island railroads for Ford county
according to the retu 'ns Of the Tax Com
mission being sent out by the State Aud.
itor is almost FIVE times the valuations as
fixed by the Board of Railroad Assessors
last year.
The valuations Of the Santa Fe railroad
for the county, which includes rolling
stock, materials, supplies, moneys, and
credits, is $2,O95, ,73s as against $6l4v740.
The valuation of the Rock Island railroad
is 81, l,O45,Q45 es against $2S6,955.
The main line of the santa Fe was as
sessed at S4l ,304 per mile as against
$3.50 last year; side track at $6, 900 per
mile as against $4,000 last year; rolling
stock at $4,27S as against $3,55l last
year.
The Tax Commission construed the
statues to give them authority to distribute
the rolling stock over the entire system
equally. The assessing boards heretofore
have distributed the rolling stock in pro-
portion to its use; that Is. the main line,
where 1t is conceded that most OF the roll.
Ing stock is used, has heretofore been
given the greater proportion of the roll
ing stock which, In the judgement of the
assessing board, was operated over that
particular branch of the road The con-
struction OF the Tax Commission is
favorable one TO the branch lines, and this
explaipcehs reason. for the low valuation
OF rolling stock per mile on the Santa Fe
In this county, in proportion 10 the in
creases of the other items Of property
over last year.
la the case of the Rock Island the
rolling stock is placed at So, 1853 per mile,
and this valuation of rolling stock is for
the Bueklin branch as well as the main
line which materially swells the valuation
Of that branch and helps those townships
through which this line runs.
The rolling stock valuation Of the Buck.
lin branch last year was $3.50, while the
main line was 81 ,13O; this year the Buck.
lin branch gets just the same as the main
line, viz: S3,l6S The material for the
Rock Island is 1858 this year as against
$50 last year. The valuation Of the main
line, Bucklin branch, was fixed at $lS,6l9
per mile as against 50 200 last year. The
valuation of the main line proper was
fixed at S40,93l per mile as against $5 500
last year.
The valuation Of the Pullman Car Co.,
is $l7,3l4 90 as against $6,0S7 last year.
The valuation of railroad property as
fixed by the Tax Commission should be
entirely satisfactory to the tax payers of
the county as careful scrutiny of the
valuations in detail certainly tend to the
opinion that those valuations are the
actual valuations OF these properties, and
while it Is true that the increases have not
been multiplied by as many times as that
Of real property 1t must be conceded that
he valuations are as high as they could |
be placed, and are as high as
The property can be justly placed.
The property of The Kansas Telegraph
md Telephone Company was assessed at
sll,S34. This property was not returned
% the State board last year but comes
inder the Jurisdiction of the Tax Com
mission by operating at this time as an
nter-county line.
The Minneola Independent Telephone
Company, valuation $SO7.0O; Home
Company, $7,256 90; Kinsley
Automatic Telephone Company, $40 90
Ensign and Dodge City Telephone Com
,Any, $463.00; Arkansas Valley Tele-
,hone Company, sl,s4S00; Southwest
Telephone Company, $500;
The Postal Telegraph Company valu-
ltion s16,70 as against $3.50 last year.
Western Union Telegraph Company /
B30,2l7 as against $4,000 last year.