The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-07-21

The application of school district
No. 40 for a loan of $4,000 from the
permanent school fund was, on motion
granted.
At twelve o'clock the board, on mo.
ton, adjourned as a board of county
commissioners to reconvene at one
o'clock as a board of equalization.
The board met pursuant to adjourn
ment at one o'clock p. M. All mem.
bers and clerk present.
The equalization of grain elevators
was taken up and, on motion, the fol
lowing changes from the assessors re
turns were found necessary in order
to bring them on a uniform basis Over
the county:
Denhart & Alguire, Bushnell,
raised 5oO.0C
Davenport Elevator, Bushnell,
raised 5000
Davenport Elevator, White,
raised Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
Farmers Elevator, White,
raised 10000
Denhart & Alguire, White,
raised 10000
Brown Elevator, White, raised 10000
Brown Elevator, White. raised 10000
Davenport Elevator, Elkton,
raised 10000
Farmers Elevator, Elkton,
raised $4,000
Sleepy Eye Elevator, Elkton,
raised 10000
Van Dusen Elevator, Elkton,
raised 10000
Farmers Elevator, Aurora,
raised 10000
Atlas Elevator, Volga, raised 10000
Cotton & Dybdahl, Volga,
raised 10000
Walters Elevator. Bruce,
raised $4,000
H. Hoganson & Co., Sinai.
raised 10000
Schietz, Sinai. raised. ........ 10000
Seward & Corcorar, Como,
raised 10000
Davenport Elevator, McKane,
IdlSeu l,llo.UO
Representatives from several of the
line elevators appeared and asked
that they be given a hearing in re-
gard to the assessment of elevators.
The board, or motion, granted them
a hearing on Tuesday, July y, 1910
at three o'clock p. m.
On motion, the board adjourned to
nine o'clock a. m. Thursday, July Z
1910.
July z, 1910.
Board met pursuant to adjournment
with all members of the board and
the auditor, as clerk, present.
The board took up the equalization
of bank stock and, on motion the fol
lowing changes were made from the
assessments as returned by the asses
'sors:
i IloI -NdllO1dl DAM, NHllc'
raised 616.0C
Farmers National Bank,
White, raised .......... 311.0(
First National Bank, Volga,
raised 1920
Farmers & Merchants State
Bank, Bushnell, raised .... $780,
IDA-- - ~ ~
raised ll5.OC
Farmers State Bank of Bruce,
lowered 5000
All others being left as returned
by the assessors, the changes be'ns
necessary to bring each bank in the
county on the basis Of assessment as
adopted by the state board and agreed
upon at the assessors meeting.
The board then proceeded to equal
ize structures on lands and lots, anC
on motion, the following changes were
made from the assessors returns:
Brookings township, lowered 5 pei
cent.
Laketon township, raised ) per cent
Medary township, raised 6 per cent
Oak Lake township, raised 9 pei
cent.
Oslo township, raised 5 per cent
Parnell township, raised 10 per cent
Sherman township, raised 10 pc
cent.
No change was made in any of tn,
other townships, or in any city O.
village.
The board next took up the equaliz
alton of lands, and on motion the fol
lowing changes were made from thu
assessors returns, which changes wer,
found necessary in order to bring tn,
lands to the schedule required by tn,
state board and adopted at the meet
ing of the assessors.