The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-03-14
SOME FIGURES
TO Be STUDIED
"uNcLE JOHN TELLS HOW
MUCH cLYNN COUNTY PEG.
f, PIE RETURN FOR TAXATION.
Editor News:

Editor News:
You have struck closer to one OF The
serious troubles with Brunswick
growth than may occur to You, in dis
cussing the inequality of tax returns
which has all to do with public m
provements. the average home own
er accepts any assessment that is laid
to him. because he thinks every one
else is bearing a like burden; but the
larger owner, the foreigner who has
an agent, or the corporation that has
an attorney, feels different about it
and resents every increase that is i'm
posed, and specious pleas are made in
arbitration with results. We are SO
often ready TO help clever fellow in
his attorneyship.
You mention as an instance the
Brunswick Dock and Improvement Co.
It's speculative conceptions are too
intricate for ordinary understanding,
but its capitalization and arbitrary
valuations and its assessed valuation
are so far apart as to create wonder.
Brunswick must suffer both for its
ironclad valuation of city realty. which
causes stagnation, and its fiction of
stock issue that must eventuate in
bad reputation, if it fails to join with
US in making legitimate values. If
Brunswick could grow it would be a
watered creamery If it can't we
must help carry the water.
There is prevailing idea that by
some subterranean process Brunswick
has given motherhood to lot of IL
legitimate schemes, when as mat
ter Of fact we have only been submits
sively buneoed.
Corporate pleadings for local SYM
pathy without a corresponding atti
tule of sympathy is the evoluting fl.
nesse of the gold brick In iustry. But
let me not slip off of the gang plank.
Equality of taxation is a theme within
itself. The tax lodging of Glynn
county is another matter that pertains
to Brunswick's handicap. It's a pc
culiar situation that escapes grand
juTies, county commissioners and the
town itself. There are four hundred
squares miles of Glynn county, which
gives us 276,000 acres of land, less the
salt water basin. Brunswick district
which contains most OF the water, re-
turns 1851 acres, at valuation OF
$131 10000 The value of real estate
n the city proper, is $2,S66,029. This
remainder of the county, not includ
ing Jekyl, returns 149,S60 acres, val
ued at s5S7,94S
There are 124,907 acres of land il
the county returned as wild, at a
value of $169,002, or just little more
than s125 per acre. And just think
of Brunswick district return, 21;67l
acres Of wild land, valued at $34 ,269
Probably these are marsh lands, and
the A., B. & A. terminals sold for
$4,000 and the quarantine station for
SO 600. Let the city of Brunswick call
for block of this wild land for some
public development. and there will he
work for the arbitrators to get 1t at
ten times its assessed value.
Glynn county is supposed to have
PIG, 900 acres of land. and there are
1S7.491 acres returned-a shortage of
s9,509 acres.
Jekyl island property is returned at
s26S,000. including the individual es-
tates. The negroes of the Brunswick
district return $194,773 worth of real
estate, more than the entire valua-
tions of any one district in the coun-
ty, except st. Simon and Jekyl, aud
only S69,230 less than Jekyl,
st. Simon island return $69,230 more
real estate values than Jekyl and
$685. $50 more than all the other dis
tricts in lump excepting Brunswick
and Jekyl. ! am neither spiteful or
fanciful in what | write. If the pros
pelity and growth Of Brunswick is
handicapped by an injustice of tax
assessments that puts the burden OF
taxation upon her people TO maintain
county that is resisting her growth
by a failure of civic improvement and
refusal to open the possibilities of
settlement upon the farming lands
there is cause for discussing the
means whereby change may be now
brought about.
Mir. Editor, ii is simply a question
Of whether we get right down to the
rock bottom level of things and
square them up, or give up. turn tur-
tie, and let her rip. We need some
full busted men. and the Greater
brunswick association should be q
guise for their showing up.
Uncle John.