Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-07-31
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RAISED BY BOARD
WAPELLo COUNTY AMONG FOUR
HIGHEST IN LIST OF THOSE
INCREASED.
TW EN- Y-FOUR HIT
Farm Land Is Boosted While Railroads
are But Slightly Altered
Levy Placed at 3.4 This
Year,

Levy Placed at 3.4 This
Year.
Des Moines, July 29.-As result
of the labors of the state executive
council which has just been finished
Wapello county farm land will sus
tain a boost in the tax assessment
from last year. But little change was
made in railroad valuations while In
terurbans were given raise Farm
land valuations are ordered increased
from / to per cent in twenty-four
counties by the state executive coun.
Gil. which has completed its work OF
assessment and equalization, and an.
nounced that the tax levy for state
purposes this year will be ga mills on
the dollar, a reduction of one-tenth
of mill from last year.
Wapello county is one of four coun
ties In which an increase of per cent
over the farm land valuations reported
by the county auditor is ordered by the
council. This Is the largest increase
ordered for any county, the others
being from to 5 per cent, all in coun.
ties where the assessed valuation was
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the actual sales values.
Where Increases Are Ordered.
Counties in which an increase OF
farm land valuations is ordered follow
Five per cent--Polk, Plymouth
Howard and Wapello.
Four per cent-Da1las.
Three per cent-Fremont, Monona
and Palo Alto.
Two per cent-Adams. Butler. Cal
houn, Cass, Chickasaw, Clinton, Floyd
Lucas, Lyon, O'Brien, Union, Winnie.
bago.
One per cent-Clay, Kossuth, Mad.
ison, Marion.
For one county. Johnson farm land
valuations are ordered reduced 8 per
cent from the figures reported by the
county auditor.
Assessed valuations In all other
counties: were equalized by accepting
the values returned by the county
auditors without chance In all coun.
ties the valuations Of personal prop,
without change.
Assessed valuations per mile were
fixed at the same figures as last year
for practically all Iowa railroads, in
Guiding the Northwestern, Milwaukee,
Illinois Central, Rock Island, Wabash
and Great Western. What few changes
were made in railroad assessments are
insignificant and affect only few
miles of track.
The old portion of the ST. Paul 4
Des Moines road, seventy miles in
length. was given an assessed valua-
ton of $4,000 per mile instead of
$4,000 and the valuation for the new
line, forty miles in length, was in
creased from $4,000 to $4,000 a mile.
Des Moines Union Raised.
Because Of an increase in track
age from 4 to SIG miles, the assess
ed valuation of the Des Moines Union
Railway company was boosted to a to.
tai of $120,75O.
The assessed valuation of the Kan.
sas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs,
subsidiary line of the Burlington,
was increased from $4,000 a mile to
$40, 100 mile The Burlington's line
from Keokuk to Burlington, operated
as the st. Louis, Keokuk & Northwest,
ern, was reduced from $4,000 a mile
to $4,000 a mile, and the Iowa & St
Louis, a coal line belonging to the
Burlington, was reduced from $500 a
mile to $4,000 mile.
The assessed valuation of the
Newton & Northwestern, now a part
of the Des Moines, Fort Dodge &
Southern, was reduced a total of $50,
$50 for the entire line, the reduction
per mile varying.
Four interurban roads were valued
at higher figure than last year. as
follows: Fort Dodge, Des Moines &
Southern, increase per mile from
$4,000 to $1,000; Mason City & Clear
Lake, from $1,000 to $1,000; Oskaloo
sa & Buxton, from $1,000 to $1,000;
Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern
from $4,000 to $4,000 per mile.
The new Abba interurban was val
ued for assessment purposes at $1,000
per mile.
Assessed valuations Of express com
panies were fixed at the same figure.
as those of last year, with one excep
ton, the Pacific Express company, thu
assessed valuation of which was in
creased from SIS to $50 per mile.
Telephone Figures Not Ready.
Telephone property valuations have
not yet been worked out because no
all of the 1000 independent mutua
companies in the state have reported
The figures used by the council in ar
irving at the total assessed valuation
| of all property are estimated for tele
phone property.
The council made public the fol
lowing table of assessed valuations
showing how the levy was determin
ed upon:
Personal Property s125, 1904, 10
Lands and town lots -. 4s3,431 SO
Railroads .......... 63,6S6,41
| Interurbans ........... 804,55
Sleeping cars ........ 1894
Express property ...... Sol ,9S