Arizona republican., 1911-01-24

 IF ASSESSORS Territorial Association Was
 Formed Yesterday fl COUNTIES REPRESENTED
J. J. Birdno Elected Chair man, E. A. Cameron, Sec {. retary. Address by Gov ernor Sloan and Consid ation of Schedules.

Eleven of the fourteen counties were represented yesterday in the convention of county assessors called by Auditor George A. Mauk for the purpose Of forming a territorial organization Of county assessors. and for discussing the problems that are constantly con fronting those officials The business Of the day included an address by Gov ernor Sloan. temporary and permanent Organization and partial consideration Of plans for making more uniform and equitable assessment of personal property in all the counties.
 The gentlemen in attendance and the counties they represent are as follows; T. F. Campbell. Yavapai county; J. J. Birdno, Graham county: C. V Meeden.
 Yuma county; k. F. Merritt. Gila coun- ty; Frank Luke. MaricOpa county; T. C. Wells. Pinal county: Frank l.. Hunt. Mohave county, represented by Ross Ii.
 Blakely. deputy: Charles R. Howe. Co., chise county; w. F. Williams, Navajo county; A A. Doherty. santa Cruz county; E. A Cameron. Coconino coun- ty C. w. Barnett, assessor of the city of Phoenix, was also an interested vis-
 itor The three missing assessors are J. w Began of Pima county; MT.
 Peraita of Apache county. and J. H.
 Kirby of Greenlee county.
 The gentlemen assembled in the of
 flee Of the territorial board Of equali zation and adjourned to the legislative council chamber. where they were ad dressed by Governor Sloan The gov ernor spoke informally but in consider able detail giving his approval to the movemen begun for a closer cO-Opera- ton between the counties and setting forth the many ways in which he be- lieved a much better state of affairs could be brought about by a more
 harmonious action among the asses
 sors The results should be a more
 equitable valuation between similar
 classes of property in the various cOun-
 ties and a more just valuation show ing the regard for the tax payers of
 all classes.
 Auditor Mauk called the meeting to
 order and presided during the selection
 of temporary chairman and tempor-
 ary secretary. J. J. Birdno was named
 for chairman and B. A. Cameron for secretary Later this organization was lidt lS dDOul Us ltf as the organization went yesterday toward the formation of an association The meeting had been called on only weeks notice and there was little at hand to work with. Auditor Mauk had wired to other states for copies of by
 laws and rules governing the associa-
 tions in those states as a model for
 the Arizona assessors to work by, but
 they had not arrived yesterday It is
 probable that today there will be some thing done in that direction.
 The chair had previously appointed committee on permanent organization consisting of Messrs. Campbell. Luke and Merritt. It had reported recOm-
 mending the making of the temporary organization permanent and had also
 submitted an order of business which included the discussion of the various property schedules That was then taken up and the rest of the day was devoted to a discussion of the prob | lems of securing more complete proper | ty lists and more equitable valuations At the conclusion the association will probably pass resolutions submit | ting to the territorial board of equali- zation the minutes of it's deliberations
 and various recommendations along the
 lines of schedules. valuations and as- i sessments.