Weekly journal-miner., 1911-08-30

Railroad and the supervisors of Yav- apai county held a spirited session at the office of the supervisors yester- day.
 The railroad men were cited to show cause why their land assess ment should not be raised from 25 cents to sums ranging from 8 cents to four dollars an acre
 After a discussion which brought out the fact that Tom Campbell might be a future senator from Arizona and that Paul Burks of the railroad company objected to being called perjurer in addition Jerry Sullivan the cattle king from Seligman bland y confessed that he leased land from the railroad which was both unsur- veyed and located in a section un- known to either the lessees or the
 
 lessor, for the sole purpose of run ming a bluff in the name of the railroad company upon other users of the lands.
 The railroad company was repre- sented by a powerful array of legal talent consisting of W. F. Taliaferro of Topeka, Kansas, Assistant Land Commissioner of the Santa Fe Pacific railroad, Paul Burks of Prescott, at- tOrney for the Santa Fe and Arizona railroad, and c. E. Jewett of Los An geles, tax agent for the Santa Fe Pacific.
 The board of supervisors sat as a board of equalization and listened to be testimony given by both sides. County Assessor Tom Campbell, rep resented the board and individually \ fought each of the railroad represen- tatives in turn. Joseph Campbell, formerly inspector of grazing of the forestry department, c. H. Hinderer of the forestry department and Jerry Sullivan of SeGgman were called as witnesses. E. B. Perrin, Jr., son of the owner of the Baea Grant and other lands purchased from the rail road, was an interested spectator and | will appear before the board tomor- TOW, when their ease will be consider ed, why their land should not be raised from 40 cents to s an acre as recommended by the assessor. Morning Session.
 The attorneys for the railroad com pany had wired the board requesting that they be allowed to appear yes terday instead of today the time ori- ginally agreed upon.
 Assessor Campbell, who has been working upon the classification of these lands for the past year, includ- ing a field trip and personal examin- ation which covered a period of five weeks presented exhaustive data showing why the return of ? cents per acre, as made by the railroad company, was not in proportion to the valuation as placed upon similar classes of lands similarly located and assessed to numerous individuals who are county tax payers.
 This data included reports furnish ed by the national forest service as to the value of the lands for grazing purposes as well as the value of the timber and wood thereon. The values SHt-lndAtu bN AuG lOItSl scINlCt Idu all the way from land which does not carry any timber to land carry ing as high as ten thousand two hun dred cords per section, which land is being disposed of by the railroad company to wood merchants at twenty five cents per cord as it stands in the tree. That practically all lands situated in Lonesome Valley had been contracted for to individuals and cor porations for minimum sum of two dollars and half per acre. Similar lands owned by individuals, under homestead entries, contained in this valley were being assessed at from s1.25 10 s per acre, the only differ