The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-03
BIG INCREASE IN
THE VALUATION OF
COUNTY PROPERTY
Important Reports Submitted
Today to County Board
of Taxation.
$442,S5O,3O6 TOTAL
RATABLES LAST YEAR
Orange Shows Jump of from
S18,748,550 to
Sl9,Z75,525.
County Oafuaffons
. THIS Year and Last

That there will be a substantial in
crease In the valuation of property
throughout the county for assessment
purposes was shown at the session of
when the assessors from the several
sections of the county submitted facts
and figures for the benefit of the board.
In each case President Lathrop An
derson received the report and turned
it over. to Secretary James A. Mungle
for tabulation. Where there was no
increase the president wanted to know
why and 1t was up to the assessors or
their representative to make the neces-
sary explanation,
When the Newark Board appeared
and was asked for its ratables Noah
Gutter said that they still depended
upon several court decisions and that
the figures would not be available until
some time next week.
Montclair's Lucid Report.
The second-class railroad property as
sessment was not included in any of
the reports. and this accounts for the
apparent decrease in Essex Fells, where
last years report showed total valua-
ton of $751.253. while this years figures
are $747.455
AS usual Montclair. through Robert
B. Harris, presented the most lucid,
leglble and altogether admirable report
of every bit of property within its
boundary lines. The books were so
clear and so clean-cut as to figures
and valuable details that they were
cause of general favorable comment
not only by President Anderson, but
by C. William Heilmann and Laurence
T. Fell, the other members of the board.
The other Figures.
The other figures that were sub
mitted before noon by the several as
SCISSORS came from Orange, Belleville,
Glen Ridge and West Caldwell. Or
ange last year reported SIS, $50, and
this years figures are $19275,525. Belle
ville's s5,374,74S of last year has in
creased to $5,575,74S, while Glen Ridge
shows a jump from s4550936 to $5.252,
600, and West Caldwell from s34s,900 to
s377,7 700.
5 The total ratables throughout the
county last last year aggregated $442-
$50, 3O6, including 1926, 7SO,793 from this
city.
The other figures that came in after
this were: East Orange, s4S,751, ,500-its
valuations last year were s41,66S,594;
Nutley, s4,539.46 against $4,2Os,2s6;
Bloomfield, sS,s60,6O0, against $s,360,S10
last year; West Orange, $S,576,325,
against 81. .SSS, ,S22 township of Caldwell,
s34s, ,2s5, against, $3459oO. Livingston,
1928, $50, against s620,SSo.
AS the township of Caldwell had
shown a decrease, Mr. Anderson ques-
toned the assessor, who explained that
there had been no new buildings put
up there within a year, and Mr.. Ander-
son remarked that the board might
go up in his territory some day and
help matters along.
COnstables After Assessors.
Irvington's figures were $7,S25, 162 for
the current year, against last years
Sc, ,S5S, ,07s, while from Cedar Grove the
figures were raised from $547,S06 to
$500, 500. In Caldwell borough there was
an increase from $1,473,6S5 to 81, ,565. 800, |
Assessor Isaac Baldwin explaining that
about $4,000 more was coming from
bank stock.
From the village of South Orange |
the board learned that the valuations
were $s,791,9 1927, against $S,7S1,O70 for
last year.
When the board adjourned for the
it had South Orange town
ship, Millburn, Verona and Roselaad |
still to be heard from. and the members
we're wroth because the law called for
4 presentation of the books at 10 a. III.
today. Constables will be sent out for
.he missing assessors.
The board adjourned this afternoon
With all the returns in, except Verona