The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-02-17
WANT EQUAL
TAXATION
Interesting and Enlightening
Figures About Amounts
Paid in Idaho.

.ood was approved july 81, 1881,
70. twenty years ago the coming
July.
Ont of forty-six officers who have
:, 10 1908, sat ON the state board of
ooualization since Idaho's statehood,
on,v seven have been from the dis
trct embraced within the present six
northern counties of the state. Only
o;ght have resided north of the line
arawn east and west through the
middle of the state up to the cleo
ton of Governor Brady.
During this period the total as
sassed valuation of the state has
amounted in the aggregate to $780,
,e9 564. 90 and of this amount $685.
495.O77. 90, or 800 per cent has been
in north Idaho. Hence, on the basis
If assessed valuations we should, up
to January l, 1908, have had fourteen
northern members represent us on
these different boards.
The only years for which we have
been able to get the minutes of the
meetings of the state board of equal
ization are 1905, 1906, and 1907, yet
the figures for these years all sub
stantiate the contention that we of
north Idaho have been Disseminated
against
The following is taken from the
final figures as eQualized by the
state board but do not include pub
lie utilities such as railroads, tele-
phones and telegraph lines.
The total equalized valuation of
the state in 1905, exclusive of public
utilities, was 500. ,S54.23 and of this
amount the northern counties had
$40, ,962.74, or 31.4 per cent.
In 1906 the assessed valuation of
the state had been raised to $685.
010,64624, an increase of 81 ,026, 1872. 0(
over 1905, or 81 per cent. This
might have been a legitimate raise
for the entire state if it had been
equitably distributed to all counties,
but it was not Our northern coun-
ties caught $3,152, S63.7S raise, or7S.3
per cent of the total of the entire
states assessed valuation
In 1907 the assessed valuation OF
Idaho was again raised, this time
TO $81 ,209, $500. This amounted to
Sl3,199,2 31.76 over the previous year
or 1853 per cent. Our five northern
counties represented 37.8 per cent OF
tle entire states valuation. OF the
tolal increase in assessed valuations
the no.tAern counties raise amount
ed to $7,451, 243.0S, or 56.4 per cent.
The entire states increase in as.
;essed valuation, after the equaliza
zion in 1907, amounted to SIT 1926. 023
N over the states assessed valuation
OF 1905 and of this amount our valua
ions in the five Pan Handle coun
ties was increased $1O,6O4, 106.26, OIL
ol.6 per cent of that of the whole
state. OF the raise of 1906 over 1905
we are charged with 1873 per cent
aai when the figures of 1907 were
determined by the board we were
sa1lled with 56.4 per cent of the
states increased assessed valuation
over 1906.
While ours are undoubtedly fine
counties they represent less than
10 per cent of the area of the state
and for this reason the figures giver
snow discrimination by south Idaho
against north Idaho.
Ten years ago we were paying
90 per cent of the total tax levy
ior state purposes; last year We
paia 80 per cent, an average for the
zen years, 29 per cent.
ZEN years ago we paid taxes OF
-o'S per cent of the assessed valua
non OF the state and last year pait
taxes on 1868 per cent of the states
assessed valuation. Average for the
Ten years, 80 per cent.
Such a singular uniformity mark!
'hese figures from year to year tha
would almost seem as though the
state board of equalization conspirec
% impose as heavy a burden on III
@s tney safely could,and yet so IA
Us we know there has been little pro
lest.-Star- Mirror.