The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-02-20
|NI|vNfSOTABOOklS
immense 1ai'Is il Taxed Values
OF Property in State a.
MAKES FINE SHOWING
increase is Largely accounted FOR
by the Eren Mines Much More
Land Listed FOR IaxdtiGn

'o|oi 'diue VI dill property III Mime
sta listed for taxation ovel. thee fig
ures of 1906 is shown i in the abb:strae,
of tax lists for the counties lust com
pleted by State Auditor S. G. Iverson.
Tie average rate of taxation showed
al incl ease of $3.50 mills in 1896 t.
% 81 mills in 1907. 4.rHu @
The increase in the total valuation
$ largely accounted for by Tie in
! crease If S121 ,0OO, GOO i'll the valuation
If tie IRON Mining properties order-
ed by the Siate tax commissTHu ana
appizNed by the state board of eaua IL
z z1tisn.a The taxable personal prom
erfy shows an Increase of over 50 :
9@0,G0h, There was al increase e.
9,576,G7 i'll the total taxes level
Ell. The Figures fer 1905 being s23.-
472,577O6 and s27. 1852, 1913 for 1907.
ltE-ttJf. +. .-..gs,t '.3-.-st.t.+E
A rather surprising feature OF the
figures is the increase of about $50
600 acres Of land, exclusive of town
lots, listed for taxation In 1906 III
total number of acres was .40,0SS,419.-
II against the total of. 40,676,115 last
year The increase is accounted for
by the opening of Indian lands to
settlement in the new, county. of Ma
homen and other Indian lands as Well
as the sales of state lands last year
when about 115,0G0 acres were dispos-
ed of, by lhe state. In addition theie
are the government lands upon which
the settlers have made their iinal
proof and obtained patents the lands
II en- being placed on the tax lists
1'ne value of The land, other than
town lots, including the STRUCTURES
thereon, was s45S,7lO, 81 Z in 1906 and
S579, ,OO4 ,144llint 1907. In the same
,eriod the value, of the town and city
Its with the structures on them grew
from s2s4,S74, 7ss7 to $780,, 2,s75,ss5, a
total increase in these two items OF
siIoi'77'4'4sseSns shSi'7 4'a4sseSns aso0 % z7sv 1, v,I
The value of gthes taxable persona /
property increased From 1853, 43s, ,357 to
S1S6, ,320, ,s29. ~ The returns show tha'
he total assessment III the !" peffsohail
prdperty, in the state WAS vas sis2 1t2 IA 7 az
but after sthh the 5.ss exemptiiops Of sloo for
each person taxed there remained
tie s1Se,32o,s29. reduction Of s2e,-
393.1ls. As thers. were 272,Se3. names
on 1.-THE tax lists, which at the rate
Of 500 each would make the total iex-
emption s27,2S6,360 it is evident that
some of them did not receive any ex77
emption from the amount charged
s." l'iS - J!oG3 gEEioD 5Urgs!H
The, rate of taxation, for the various
state expenses, including the soldiers
relief. funding tax, revenue, roads and
Hr. -st. rs-s B.
bridges and university campus, was
2A mills. an increase of Z of a mill
over the rate in 1906, the increase
being ) of a mill for the revenue
fund aud 2 OF a mill for the ulllyers-
iy campus fund The amount raia-
ed last year for these funds, eXceiii
he campus. fund, was S1,4421, 1876
T61s year It is s2,35S. .4SO.47 ',This
Htax of 123 mills for the school ana
university tax in, 1906 ,i'i33 fni4i ED l
Isl ,127,979 IL, and dothIsj yeaal il ,3@ia>
III$l 2Saa,2s2lS. The. sress!pts lrqgN, an
Itshest and9 pTemiams oan state loans
aas0 sh6* ain fhefeasei1r hoae tha'
s56Sde tBsSoffgu the figures FFeeft6inal Isl loo beha zi'
s.14o2o. .4s,, and 1907 s$4ss.2sf 81. s'D
alPRR isaiiigs4lSahaa iTsssaaii tie Sssbs RaS:
|fsGof taEaftiqn Ee.tsn of the Pullman Sleep
Ing Car company it's taxes for "19O7
will be; about $4,000 more than in
1906. The company formerly paid a
8 iIper cent tax on its gross earnings
On business between points within
the state, but the legislature last VIII
ter changed it to an ad yalorem bas-
is. The; state board of equalization alto
fixed hegYalue Of its, Minnesota prop
erty at s2SO,214, upon which the taa
bis $5, ,9s4. 80 Last. year the company
paid a tax of s1,27s.ss..A . ..3'. D'1s 9.l
A reduction in the value of the
Western Union Telegraph company
property from s1.25O.O00 to $1,000
of equalization this winter, and as a