Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-21
THREE MILLIONS
INCREASE SHOWN N
Total Valuation Of Idaho's Tax.
able Property Aggregates
s11e,oooDoo.
BOARD COMPLETES LABoRs.
Dcfunct Bank Pays Back Amount OF
States Dcposit---senator
Borah Home.
s,p,o.,al correspondence.3

ESENec ial a(.OtTtSppiiuSit So
go ,9ISE. Aug 19.--The state noarC
y Of EQUALIZATION is meaning tne
n q n ana of Its ANIMAL grind. 1t has
49, been IN session nearly 10 days
y sssss Mas aiearly.aIl the schedules made
yhe total valuation of the state
81 equalization, including railway,
M one and telegraph lines. II Is
L. estimated wilIsaggregate sl1s, ooo,-
.II, an Increase of ,sS. $40, 900 over the
4 anrrajsement Sof all classes ( of prop.
& serty in Idaho for purposes I Of taxa 'is'l
ton III 1908.
The returns from the % counties
show assessments aggregatiIrg $al ,399.-
692 an increase Of 81 800, 600. over l9Os.
L Few of the counties report any gam ~
valuation over last year, and In view
Of this fact the tendency .oft the board
& will be to increase the loW'ones rather
5sthan decrease those which nave re-
Y turned additional property. .&
III The increase In railroad property, II
estimated, viii be propurtionate to
II the&utter classes, though 1t is already
Il evident that the railroads Will resent
\ any increase in the. assessment of their
Z property.
S In the aualization of the valuations
HI az assessment In II of the 20 counties
vas unchanged. Canyon and Lincoln
& counties we're Increased 10 per cent and
Idaho county Is per cent Reductions
were ordered as follows: Ncz PIERCE, 10
Z per cent; Shoshone. Is per cent; Wash
ington, u per cent.
! i sa DEFuNCT BANK PAYS.
Receiver NJ. p. Meholn of the de-
funct Capital State bank, has paid
Y So, 434 into the state treasury. thetsum$
which was liniasvfully3 on deposit with
y that institution at the time ofiits wreck
Through the alleged forgeries sof Cash
4 Ter H. E. Neal, Ian. 20. 1908. 4. 81
3 Both the district, and supreme courts
8sheld that this sunni had become a trust
fund by reason of the fact that II had
been so deposited, and therefore, n
I preference9elai According to a state
ment made yesterday by Receiver M
i II. NIeholin, the adepositors of thist
former institution will receive settle I
ment in full of their claims on or be-
& fore Jan 1, 1910
Depostors have already received
dividends aggregating 10; per cent since
I the bank closed
SENATOR BORAH HOME,
senator.1Y. f. Borah arrived home a
few days ago from Washington. He
ihW1IINS spend IEe resi- l5sOI Fl the SuIIliHcI5
principally In Boise. Hetis a member
of tile senat- committee,o son irrigation,
4 but he has decided not to join the
j,inketing tour of the committee
s which has just started on a trip to
every reclamation project in the United
States. In speaking of this the senator
said:
ut is my Intention to make a per-
s sonaI and a close inquiry into certain
statements that have come to me
respecting the forestry matter and the
reclamation undertakings. have re.
ceived numerous letters and petitions
bearing on various phases of admin
filtration of law and physical condi-i
tions. propose. now l have the time,
to get AT the facts SO far as the Idaho
government enterprises are concerned,
first hand.
"One of the principal causes of COM
plant respecting the forest reserves is
that they embrace agricultural land
that is by Its Inclusion in effect re-
moved from all possibility of cultva-
{ ton j intend to specially inquire in-
y to that subject.
II am a supporter of the policy of
forestry protection and of conserva-t
ton. but am not5in favor of unneces-
sarily tying up any large tracts in for
7 est reserves, and there is q growing