The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-09-15
State Tax Commission Boosts
Valuation of Kenosha Co.
More Than Three MillionE
OTHER COUNTIES ARE FAVORED
Increase in Kenosha County Valuation
is Duplicated in But Five Counties
in the State and it is Record in Dis
trick

Kenosha County got it S annual boost
in valuation from the Wisconsin State
Tax Commission on Saturday afternoon
when the statements of the valuations
made by the commission for the coming
year were announced. The boost for
Kenosha County this year is little in
excess of three million dollars and the
largest boost given the. county IN the
long series Of advances made by the
State Board The assessment for Keno
sha county a year ago was $38,562,3
The rate of the assessment for the COM
ing year has not as yet been made
public, but it is certain that Kenosha
county will pay considerable more state
taxes than it did last year. The figures
set by the state board for this county
are largely in excess of the amount set
by the local assessors and it is possible
that the Kenosha County Board will
instruct committee to go to Madison
and protest on the grounds that the
Kenosha assessment is not in keeping
with the assessments made against other
counties in the state. Such protests
have been made III the past but with
out the Tax Commission taking any
steps to reduce the valuation.
The state tax commission, acting in
it's capacity as state board of assess
ment, on Saturday fixed the state as
sessment of all taxable property in Wis
consin for 1910 at $2,743, $50, 404, as
against $4,000, $40, 79s last year, an in
crease of $140630,606.
The assessment of real estate is 3d.
los, 14O,O21, as against $2,012,4S4,0 1904
last year, and the personal property is
$685., 040,3S3, as against $590,065, 794
last year.
The figures, compared with those of
1909, are as follows:
Total value of taxable property, 3d.
743, 180,404, as against $4,000, $40 1893
for 1909. The increase is $140,63O, 6O6.
Total value of real estate, So, 1885,
140,021, as against ,o12,484, 1904 for
1909.
Total value of personal property, $685.
040,383, as against $590,065, 1914 for
1909.
Total value of personal property in
Milwaukee county $151, 722, 1872, as
against 1872, 130,113 for 1909.
The same rate of taxation derived
from these figures will apply in assess
ing railroad property.
The assessment is based on the actual
value of the taxable property in the
state as far as can be ascertained. The
commission believes that the assessment
fairly represents the actual value, but
it is considerably higher than the assess
ments fixed by local assessors.
The state taxes are based on the state
assessment, being apportioned among
the different counties on the valuations
found by the state board.
The valuations of counties in the
first district as compared with those
of 1909 are as follows:
Kenosha ..... 81 ,6o1 ,703. 1886, 1878.
Racine .... 69,292,9o5. 67046.597.
Rock ..... 1871, 800. 76,951 1867.
Walworth -. 53,052, 1874. 51.678,15e.
Green 1885,. 42,208,140. 4O493, 7o2.
Lafayette -. 39,1S0,679. 37,315.832
An examination of these figures shows
that Kenosha county is given a larger
increase than any county in the first
District and this in spite of the fact
that it is the smallest county in the
district, territorially speaking. Racine,
Rock and Walworth county all have
double the population of Kenosha coun-
ty while all of the counties have a..
much greater area and Rock, Wal
worth, Green andd Lafayette are inst
double the size of this county. Mem
bers OF the state Tax Commission over
their own signatures have declared that
Kenosha is one of the best assessed
counties in the state and yet in the
face Of this declaration this county Is
given a larger increase than any coun-
ty in the District. There are but FIVE
counties in the state in which the state
tax commission has made larger in
crease than in this county and examina-
ton will show that all of these counties
are proportionately larger than Keno
lsha county. The report Of the state tax
commission for all the COUNTIES in the
state will give the people of Kenosha
a chance to judge for themselves as to
the fairness of the assessment.
Following is a table showing the
state assessment of 1910 by counties:
STATE ASSESSMENT, 1910.
Adams Observation-Disclosures 1906, 400
Ashland 1915, 074
Bayfield, .................. 15,SS4950