Bisbee daily review., 1909-07-03
ASSESSMENT Is
 NOW LOWER
Falling of in Taxable Property Due to Mines Ceasing
 Production
SUPERVISORS TO MEET
 AS EQUALIZATION BOARD
Especial to Review.)

TOMBSTONE, July 2.-The board of supervisors were in session yes terday as a board of equa-ization and adjourned until Tuesday when they will will reconvene to be in session from that time until July 20, in look ing over the assessment rolls as turn ed in by County Assessor Howe. It is the general opinion that they will make but few changes from the fig ures as given by the assessor The rolls this year contain an increase Of about 12 per cent over the number of assessments from last year, there being about 65oo separate assess
 ments listed on the rolls this year.
 The rolls total up s1S.636, 734.52. of which s4,759. .497.27 is the assessment levied on the mine production. The paid assessments total $172, 50. There is a falling off of a little less than a million from the amount of the assessment of last year which was $1s. s.5SS,979.52.
 The decrease this year is due to the fact that the mine assessments fell off considerably owing to the lower price of the metals than was maintained the year previous and be-
 side the fact that the last legislature cut off about $100.006 by taking the telephone, telegraph and express com | panies off the list and assessing them 1 one per cent of their income There
 was also considerable reduction made by the assessor on the values placed l! on property in Bisbee and Douglas I this year in comparison with that of | last year.
 The increase in the number of | SI,s ss, .l t,$ ( | of additional property holders in 1 Douglas. Bisbee and Warren and in
 the various valleys of the county. | There was very large percentage of i increase in the number of acres of patented land this year over last. The number of head of cattle will be about the same as last year as the cattlemen have shipped out of the
 county about what the usual increase l would have been.
 1 The railroad assessments are some
 larger than last year and will net to the county several thousand more | dollars in taxes than was paid last year. Neither of the two roads lead | ing into Courtland were placed on this years rolls by the territorial board of 1 equalization, they not being exempt
 under the exemption law that was
 passed by the last legislature.
 Grand Jury Prisoners
 Notwithstanding the fact that it his 1 just been a few weeks since the grand
 jury cleaned up the felony cases,
 there are now held in the county jail
 seven prisoners on felony charges who i will be compelled to await the action
 of the October grand jury. Two of \ these are prisoners whose cases were i referred to the next grand jury by action taken in the district court, | while the others are cases that have ! arisen since the grand jury has ad.
 journed.
 'i Eddlemsn is a Trusty
 Attaches of the sheriff's office who Y returned today from Yuma state that
 the weather there is something awful
 the thermometer registering 1l5 on the day they were there, while in the , early morning hours the mercury was lowering around the 100 degree level rr Considerable anxiety has been felt at Yuma on account of the high water affecting the Southern Pacific bridge
 and s. P. engineers make an exam 1 ination twice daily to see that the
 bridge has not moved. It was fear
 ed that the rush of waters might un
 derdermine the cement pillars, but } so far they have not been damaged l and the danger is not so great as the
 water has fallen nearly foot and !
 half at the bridge during the past
 few days. Mosquitoes are thick as
 flies around molasses, and judging from the bumps raised on the hand: 1. and faces of the deputies it looks as , though they must have got into the
 thickest of them.
 w. J. Eddleman of Bisbee. wht : was sentenced to serve five years. i. at present working as a trusty in the l. warden's office on the outside of the : penitentiary walls, so he enjoys much ? more liberty than those who are kep on the inside. Nolan Is assisting fl the inner office Both will be takei
 to Florence within a few days ana l given clerical positions of similai 2 nature at the new institution.