The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-09-06
Assessors Final Returns Show
Low Valuation of Unim-
proved Land in Country
VALUE LIVE STOCK
AND FARM PRODUCTS
Including Implements and Farm
Machinery This Amounts to
Nearly $4,000, 900. But Little
Reduction in Valuation

| ne returns OF the county assessor,
showing the valuation of property af-
| ter the board of equalization had
concluded its hearing and made its
report to the state board of account
ancy and superintendency of public
offices, indicates that the average
| equalzed valuation of improved land
| in Yakima county. exclusive of i'm
provements, is sS0.6 per acre, and
| that of the improvements on lands is
1882 per acre, making total aver
age valuation, with improvements, of
$92.5S per acre. The average equal
| lied valuation of unimproved lands is
S739 per acre. This. in contrast to
the generally accepted idea that land
| in Yakima county is high priced, will
| be of interest as showing the mod
crate price of the county's wonder
fully productive soil.
Make Reduction $15O,O00
The aggregate value of all real
property in Yakima county, as re-
| turned by the assessor has been re-
duced about $150000 by the board of
equalization, while personal property
showing a valuation of $6,516,975
LANDS shows a value of s124,460; that
of unimproved lands S4,057,f75; that
of improved lands, exclusive of i'm
provements, $13, 550,550, that of i'm
proved lands, $2,325,535 and that of
all lands, including improvements,
20,05S,330, loss of exactly $149,-
SIS
| Probably the most important action
| of the board was in the order making
| a blanket reduction of IS per cent on
a considerable acreage of unimproved,
| pillow and young orchard lands under
the canal on the Yakima Indian res
ervation with an assessed valuation of
| $40 per acre and up. This change
was made at the request of a delega-
ton of landowners from that section.
The value of alfalfa lands was not re-
duced.
| Slight changes were made in the
total number of acres of land outside
of cities and towns, the equalized to-
tai being 500, 626.54; in the number
of acres fenced now totaling $25',731,-
%; and in the number of acres of un-
improved lands, now totaling $685.
S19.54.
City Properly
The euualized valuation of city and
town lots exclusive of Improvements,
throughout the county, is $4,562, 030,
the figure being unchanged from that
of the assessor; that of the improve
ments on lots $4,257, S65, a reduction
Of only $3.50, making the aggregate
equalized valuation of all city prop
erty and it's improvements in the
county, $S,S19,S95. The aggregate
equalized value of all real property in
the county is $2S,S7S,225.
Personal Property
| The aggregate value of personal
property in the county, as equalized
by the board, is S6,516,S10, Il reduc-
ton of only S165 from the assessors
figures of $6,516,975. The aggregate
value of exemptions under section 3
of the state law is $1.S52,170. maxi
| ing the aggregate value of taxable
personal property in the county as
equalized s4,664,040.
| Livestock and Farm Products
According to the returns of the as
livestock, poultry hay. grain and
| Ol1ltI ldiHl pIOuuNlS III
and also of agricultural i'm plements
in Yakima county, is $1,672,435.
There are in the county. according to
the returns, S3,o1S head of horses,
cattle, sheep, goats and hogs, and
their aggregate value. including that
of poultry, is $1.3SO.990, about 90 per
cent of the value of all personal prop
+, erty There are 6532 work horses,
valued at $557,155; 1886 other horses,
valued at $264,705, and 4S45 mich
COWS, valued at $1S1.105.
! Hay, grain and other farm produce
in the growers hands and in the
warehouse of the dealer has an ag-
gregate value of $124,430, and that of
agricultural implements is $f6S,015, as
contrasted with that Of mechanical
implements, $22,1S0.