The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-26
TAX RETURNS FROM
GEORGIA COUNTIES
Good Gains In Values Are
Shown By Reports
NO LOSSES ARE SHOWN
Largest Increase In Taxable Values Is
Given In Pulaski County While
Some Show Only About $4,000
Gain
NO LOSSES ARE SHOWN

Atlanta. July 25.-(Speeial.)-A sufficient
number of the tax returns have come in
| from various Georgia counties to make
possible some interesting speculation re-
| garding ultimate results
Twenty-Five counties have submitted
| their returns to the comptroller general
among them some of the smallest coun-
ties in the state. In fact, very few of
them are up to the average in population
| and wealth.
| These % counties show gains in tax
values over 1909 of s4,173, 7o3, an average
OF nearly 100000 to the county; and every
one of them shows gain-there is not a
loss in the bunch.
| The maintenance of this average
| throughout would mean a total gain in
taxable values this year of approximate
ly 100000 which does not include rail-
road and other corporation values. 1t is
quite reasonable to suppose, however,
that when the larger counties are heard
from, none of them having yet made their
returns. this average will be greatly in
creased. There Is said to have been an
exceptionally large gain in Fulton and
several others of the more wealthy coun-
ties, SO it would not be surprising to see
the total Increase climb above that figure.
The largest increase shown in any of
the counties so far reported is $SSS,595
which goes to the credit of Pulaski. while
in some instances the gains are as low
as $4,000.
These same % counties have returned
for taxation 1883 dogs at 81 a head. Yet
when the do- tax was first passed some
of the leading statesmen thought the
whole state would not yield that much.
This is an average of S13 dogs to the
county, which indicates an aggregate of
1858 for the state.
1t is likewise certain that this aver
age Mil DC CONSIDERABLY exceeded when
the larger counties are heard from.
There are probably 10000 dogs in Full
ton county and nearly as many IN
several others of the bigger counties.
So a prediction of total return of
S150,O00 from the dog tax Is prob
ably rather an under than an over-esti-
mate.
The returns to date with the smaller
counties making such as plendid show
Ing, indicate anything but hard times
in Georgia. In fact, these reports bear
out the statement of Atlanta and other
Georgia bankers that this state and
the south is practically at the topnotch
of prosperity-that is, the highest notch
yet reached in its history.
1t is true the cotton crop is lament
ably short, but that fact does not ap-
pear to have interfered with the tax
returns. other crops are as good or
better than usual and the yield will be
more abundant. There is more indus
trial activity, 1t is said, than the state
has ever known and the result is
everywhere a busy and a businesslike
prosperity that counts.
It will be seen from the following
list that the counties which have sent
In their tax returns, all showing in
creases, are among the smallest in the
state in point of population and wealth.
They are Liberty, Clinch, Pickens, JEFF
ferson, Wilcox, Toombs, Epson, Chat
tooga, Talbot. Madison, Banks, Quit
man, Milton, Gordon, Catoosa, Walker,
Macon, Pulaski, Union, Dawson, Glas-
cock and Echols. There is not one in
the list whose population entities 1t to
two representatives in the general as
sembly.