The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-20
Total Value Of Property Four
Hundred and Two Millions
NOT ALL BY ANY MEANS
Valuation Of b. R. g, Telephones,
Telegraph and Pipe Lines ONLY.
Nearly as Much as All Pronertv
In Kansas Last Year.

pleted It's assessment work TODAY and
when all of the valuations had been
nxed the commission found that it
mas listed property valued at $402,-
SSo'446S6. Last year the total valua-
tlon OF all property in Kansas for as
sessment purposes was $436.454,94S.
me commission itself has assessed
only the railroad companies, private
car lines, telegraph and telephone
companies. the street railways and
pipe lines and the actual values of
these properties alone this year
amounts to almost as much as the
total assessed value Of all property in
commission did not assess the street
railways and many of the pipe lines,
express, private car lines and tele-
phone lines did not show any valua-
tions for the state to assess. The fol-
lowing shows the valuations Of the
different properties as fixed by the
commission: 4
Railroads 80. 1886. $751; 02
Private car lines ...... 1,O63.2O7
Telephone lines ......... 6,359,2S5
Street railways .-....... 3.65S,636
The following shows the valuations
or the principal express companies,
telegraph lines, pipe lines and street
railways as listed by the board. The
valuations for 1907 are shown in but
a few instances on account of the
properties being assessed locally and
not by the state board or the COM
panies did not exist year ago.
Name. Valuation
Corporation. 1908.
The Pullman Co...........$ sS9S61
Pullman Co., 1907, s11O,491
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Telegraph Co. . 1864
c. B. & Q. Telegraph Co.. 1907,
$16,380.
Posta! telegraph Co.. 3os.s7s
Postal Telegraph Co., 1907.
$10s,22s.
Western Union Telegraph Co. s,15s, 1922
Western Union Telegraph Co.,
1907, $1,032,7
Adams Express Co....... 3206
American Express Co... 1886
Pacific Express Comm. 14,75S
United States Express Co... $500
Wells Fargo & Co.. 51,285
Wells Fargo & Co, 1907, 81 ,221
Prairie Oil & Gas Co. 12751, 45s
Prairie Oil & Gas Co., 1907
$3,676, 51S.
Kansas Natural Gas Co... 741s,o72
Kansas City Pipe Line Co... 4,337, 239-
Kansas City Pipe Line Co.,
1907, 1856, 900.
Peoples Gas Co. ss7.5a4
Burlington Gas Co.... 291S5
Burlington Gas Co. 1907, 1882
Central Gas Co.. 1900
Fredonia Gas Co.. 1924
Fredonia Gas. Co.. 1907.
$17,711.
Gas Belt Fuel Co....... 1920
Holeman Bros, Co.. 4,018
Kansas Crude Oil & Gas Co.. 32,675
Keiser Gas Co.. 5S,744
Keiser Gas Co., 1907, 1881
olathe Gas Co. 4s,775
Oxford-Ajax Oil & Gas Co.. 2432
Portland Gas & Pipe Line Co. 1858
Seabrook Gas & Oil Co... 1,0Ss
Seabrook Gas & Oil Co., 1907,
$500.
Wichita Natural Gas Co... 1,346,1 JAP
Wichita Natural Gas Co., 1907
$3.50, 1927.
Uncle Sam Oil Co............. a22.o27
Uncle Sam Oil Co., 1907,
$11S,321.
Atchison Railway & Light Co. 1894
Arkansas City Street Ry. Co.. $3.50
Fort Scott Street Ry. Co... $3.50
& Ice Co. 121, 425
CO. ............ ....-......... 1920
Hutchinson Interurban Ry.Co. 100, 300
lola Electric Railroad Co... 149, 1889
Joplin & Pittsburg Ry. Co... 22,185
West Mineral Branch. ........ 712,073
Kansas Traction Co. 5000
Kansas Southern ElectricRail-
Kansas City western. 80. 1,1ss.s4s
K. C. Western, 1907, $171, lilo.
Kansas City Elevated. ....... 1O61, 161
Metropolitan Street railway. 2,406, 749
Mo. & Kan. Interurban.. 257, S83
Mo. & Kan. Interurban, 1907
Missouri & Kansas Interur-
q RowEngs. 5,173
Salina Interurban Ry. Co... 29,olS
Southwestern Missouri Ry. Co 75,6OO
Strong City Consolidated
Street Railway Co.. s,Sl4
Topeka City Railway Co:..... 1,0!7 ,S2z
Union Traction Conn.,. 340, SSl
Wichita r. R & Light Co... S67,435
Total for all street railways.
The total value of all the telephone
companies in Kansas which extend or
do business in more than one county is
fixed at Sc, 1856, 285. There are over 300
telephone companies in the state. The
largest one is the Missouri & Kansas
(BelD which is valued at $2,643.s7O. The
Topeka Independent Telephone COM
pany's valuation is $685. 1886. The Kan
sis City Home is valued at $1s4, Jos, and
the Kansas City long distance at
S351 997.