The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-05-17
STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. ...0NE
HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS INCREASE

>" ,"h", NiCnltd PIPE Line, soVc,uUUi ;
Kansas Natural Gas company. 800
oo0; MarHet, Mining company, s725,-
c0e; Cudahy Refining company, s20,-
/ 6"0; Henry oil & Gas company, 81
oe00o: Osage & Oklahoma company,
$l,li2 .52o Oklahoma Na;ural Gas
company, S,i1O, 600; Ardmore Gas
com ANY, stls00, Caney River Gas
company, sl,1ss,gV0; Minnetonka OIL
company, 81 ,0Cs0, 600: Cowhan Gas
company, 100000; Indian Territory
Illuminating company, sl,07l 900; the
American Telegraph & Telephone
company. an increase of 80 per cent
over the rendition.
Tbs largest per cent increase was
made on the Indian Territory Il.u-
minating company, 1000 per cent
over its rendition.
The board adopted a schedule for
assessing the 600 small rural tele.
phone companies, by fixing an
increase of % per cent on the wire
value, and % per cent increase OH
the value of posts.
The board decided 10 assess oil
at 80 cents barrel and pipe lines
| from $1,000 to $4,000 a mile using
scale for the different sizes from
one inch to the large l5-inch pipes
All four of the large pipe line com
panies in the state will be assessed
at the same rate, the Gulf, Texas
the Oklahoma and the Prairie.
Raised to 100000.
A total valuation of a little more
than s2,O00,OOO was placed by the
state board of equalization Tuesday
on the properties controlled by the
Oklahoma Railway company and af-
filiated companies. The assessment
probably will be accepted by the
company without contest, with the
possible exception of the local line
at Guthrie, on which it was claimed
that the value was placed too high.
The city line and the suburban and
interurban lines, with the exception
of the one to Yukon, were assessed
at Sl,34l, ,2S3, raise of 50 per cent
over the company's return; the ter
minai property at J49S, ,65i, a raise o.
10 er pcent the FL Reno interurban
at Sl44,95S, a raise of 70 per cent,
and the Guthrie Railway company
at flat assessment of $4,000.
John w. Shartel, general manager
of the company who was present
at the meeting OF the board, an
nounced that the company expects to
go ahead with its interurban work
at once and that the FL Reno line
would be the first one built He star.
ed that the company expects to try
out that line. and decide from the re-
suits with it whether it would be
profitable to extend its other lines
from Edmond to Guthrie and from
Moore to Norman. He said that the
Fart of the bl Reno line now ir
operation 10 Yukon had been unex.
pectedly successful, and had paid
expenses from the start, although il
had been expected to lose money for
a time.
In referring to the heavy expenses
of his company recently, Mr.. SharteI
said that it was partly due to the
fact that it had to pay extra for
what its taxes were supposed to Gov
er, the item of police protection. He
said that the company had paid out
from $4,000 to $4,000 in the last
three mosths for that item, and that
inasmuch as the county had not
money to pay salaries, the sheriff
commissioned his deputies and the
company paid their salaries.
The telegraph companies were Fl. |
na'Iy disposed of by the board Tues.
day morning. The Postal Telegraph
Gable company of Texas. which re,
turned its property at $1,000. was
raised 250 per cent and the Mackav
Telegraph company, which made
return of sl2.5lS, was raised 125 per
cent.
The board has decided to adopt a
new system of assessing express com
panieS, making it on mileage ba.
sis, instead of so much for each
horse and wagon, but has not vet
determined the valuations to be
placed on those companies.