Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-05-12

Town of Farmingnnfnd that for the
year 1907 the a5sessed valuation of
the said>1e IA of sw IA was fixed at
$6300 and that said sw4 of sci was
assessed at 81, 175. 90, that thereafter
for the year 1908 the said ne4 of sw4
was assessed at 1925 90 and that said
sw} Of set was assessed at $4,000.
Deponent ful there says that the
above described landss were in fact
during all of said years what are
known as .Ssdt over lands and ould
have beeyassessed As such; that the
assessed valuations as fixed on said
described lands for the years 1905,
1906 and 1907 were in fact grossly I'M
just, illegal and inequitable in that
they were not assessed on an equal
basis with other similar in the same
location which were of the same
value That said assessed valuation
by the Town of Pennington for the
year 1908 is fair and equitable valuz.
alton and trip ths same was fixed by
the assessor ~ said town after having
personally inspected said lands in
comply with thoroughly compe-
tant land locker and estimator and
that said valuation is really in excess
of the marketa BILE value of said lands
and that the highe valuations in The
preceedin years was fixed mistakenly.
enormously and inequtably and
without any actual or real knowledge
as to the kind and character OF the
said lands.
Deponent further says that he
makes this affidavit for the said Ross
Lum Der Company, the owner of said
lands, that he. is authorized SO to do;
that the sam as made for the purpose
of securing an equitable adjustment
aud settlement OF the taxes against
said lands for the years 1908, 1906
and 1907 SO that the owner can afford
to pay the same and again have the
lands placed on tax paying basis.
That he bases this affidavit on his
knowledge gained from an examina-
ton of the tax rolls of the towns in
which SAID lands have bssa- located !;
on an affidavit of<dae %fank Rogers
dated the End day OF January A. D..
1909 and op>ah affidavit of one b. F..
HammoDH bearing date the 4th day of
May, 1909, the affidavit of Rogers here
referred being now on file in the office
of the county clerk and that reference
is made to said affidavit and the affida-
Wit of said Hammond for other and
further particulars.
GEO. E. O'CoNNoR.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 5th day of May, 1909.
Ae AMOS RADCLIFFE.
Notary public, Villas Co.. Wis. My
com mission expires Feb, 9th 1911.
State Of Wisconsin ! :.
Villas County S. = s
On this 4th day of May A. D. 1909,
personally appeared pefSse me one,
B. F. Hammond, of ArBor Vitae, Villas
County, Wisconsin, who being first
duly sworn makes the following state
ment, namely that: southwest quar-
ter Of southeast quarter (sw4 of sell
section eighteen (lS) town forty (40)
range eight (8) east, and northeast
quarter OF south-v est quarter (ne4 of
sway section eigkteeR {I8) town
forty (4o) range eight (8) east, Wgfe
purchased by the Ross Lumsfr O6Ap-
any in March 1903 and at A#at fine
the best of this tim Der haS<Ebeen' cut
and logged some Yeas previous to
such date, the timber remaining
being very small, of poor quality,
partially blown down and burned
over and when these two descriptions
were last logged during the winter of
1905 and 1906, the imber remaining
which was then cut was as above
stated, namely, very small size, of
inferior quality and that said descrip-
tions should have been assessed for
the year 1905 ON cut land~susis the
same as they had been assessed for
previous years. -
B. F. HAMMOND.
Subscribed apd sworn to before me
this 4th day SfMay A. u. 1903.
JOHN A. McDoNAND
Notary Public, Villas County,
Wis. My commission expires May 10th
1909.
On motion petition No, l was
granted all voting ave.