The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-19
TAX FACTS ABOUT HENDER-
SON.

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Henderson county levies thu
highest special tax Of any county
in the State over g cents on tn,
zone hundred dollars.
That and the following Facts
about the county are taken from
the 1910 report of the Corpora
ton Commission, just given the
Legislature.
There are 1,797 sheep In the
/ county valued at 1886, and
what joke. there are 247 dogs
valued at 1920. It's about time
| Judge EWart introduced his bill
making it possible to raise a few
Isheep In the county, even if the
dogs must suffer.
| The farming tools are valued
| at SIG, 229, household furniture at
1887, 339, and there's $25, 500
worth of provisions in the old
county. There certainly is and
then some.
| Firearms are worth almost 3d.
600, there's only $4,000 In cash
on hand, while the solvent credits
roll up to 1913, ITO which isn't
so awful bad, after all.
The value of the cotton is plac-
ed at 81, 900 and it's mystery
where that much cotton in Hender
son county keeps itself.
Musical instruments come to
the front of the tune of nearly
$4,000.
There's only $4,000 worth of
watches and jewelry there, but
the merchandise jumps up to $40
600. All other personal property
amounts to $4,000, and tie total
valuation of personal property is
almost a million.
The total valuation of personal
property and real estate is 3d.
436, 119.
The report says there are 1904
white polls in the county, 100 ne
gro polls, a total of 2,113. Vol"
Shepherd will know if this is cor
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rect or not.
The value of railroad, telegraph
telephone and other property as
sessed by the corporation COM
mission in Henderson is 1927 ,448.
The value of property listed by
negro citizens of Henderson is
$54, 230, and the grand aggregate
of all the property is So, 81, ITO.
The total school tax, all sources,
is $12, 96O.19. Polk, for the pur-
pose of comparison, has $500
A. Pennsylvania has $12,257 .62.
Haywood has $14,314.07.
The total county tax is given as
500, 972.73. Haywood's is SILL,
572.25. Transylvania's is $780,
'09.
Henderson seems to have $146,-
600 in bonds outstanding, Transy-
.lvania has $50, 400
Henderson tax rate is given
as LAG, of which 70 1-3 is special
the highest in the State. Nash
levies no special tax, Hartford
leives 2 cents. No other county IN
the State approaches Henderson
In this respect.
The total liabilities of Hender-
sonville are given as $127 ,312.OO.
The average value of land IN
Henderson in 1909 was. $7,73.
The value of town lots averaged
1891 % horses averaged $67 81
each. mules 1887, cattle $14.92
each, hogs $40, sheep $500 each.
Real estate in Henderson In 1900
was valued at 81, 580,984. In 1905
it had gone to 81, 917,05100, while
in 1909 it had trotted along to
So, 487 1886.
There were 214,261 acres of
land in the old county in 1909, and
it is supposed the same amount is
still there in 1911. The mineral
and quarry land amounts to 1870
acres, there were 2,449 town lots
there, valued at S 831 ,538 and
worth a heap more. The horses
numbered 1879, valued at $685.
1913 There were 124 head of cattle,
valued at $121 227, and 1894 hogs
worth $16,444. This was in 1909,
remember, before the First Ma
tional Bank, Roe Shepherd and
the others began. offering such lib
eral prizes for better and bigger
hogs.
There's a lot of other interest
ing information in the report. and
taken all in all Henderson shows
up fairly we'll If she keeps up
her present pace it wont be long
before she does as well as any
county in the State In proportion
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