Weekly journal-miner., 1911-08-30
CAMPBELL STRIVES TO RAISE
 ASSESSMENT OF GRANTLANDS
Our New Senator


 The present system of taxation puts a premium upon perjury, for all this week this board has had occasion to listen to stories from taxpayers who have been cited and who stated their willingness to make an affidavit that they did not own over a certain number of cattle or live stock and their testimony would be immediately followed by that of one of their neighbors who would testify that that individual owned three times that amount.''
 This statement evidently ranked inthe mind of Burks and when he rose to his feet he showed that he deeply resented the statement and had taken occasion to take the mat ter as a personal insult
 "Gentlemen of the board I wish to state that we are here for the pur- pose of answering the notice to ap- pear which we have received and not for the purpose of entering into any acrimonious discussion with the asses Sor."
 Then turning to Campbell with a Chesterfieldian gesture he remarked. "Our future senator from Arizona has chosen to classify us as periurers. He has stated in open meeting that we came here as periurers and liars We are not here for the purpose of misrepresenting, we did not come here paid to lie-but to present the facts which you gentlemen can easily verify.
 "There seems to me to be no Oeca- sion to increase the valuation at this time but to leave our lands stand as they stood on the original roll.
 "We have been cited in each of the northern counties and in most eases we have been permitted to en- joy the original rate
 ''In Mohave we were cited to ap pear and show eause why we should not be assessed at B cents per acre and after demonstrating to the board the quality and use to which the lands were put they placed the valu- ation at ? cents, the original figure.
 "In COcOnino county, where the land is of far better quality than here, the stOekmen voluntarily ap- peared before the board and said that an increase of valuation would work hardship among them and the board will l am certain, although I am not as vet officially informed of this fact, will render its decision tOmor- row and that decision will be to let the land stand at the old assessment.
 Ask the cattle and sheep men what they would think of any action on the part of this board which would increase their burdens.
 After again thanking you all and the future senator from Arizona as we'll will respectfully request that this body permit the old assess ment to remain until Arizona enters upon statehood, al least, and then we can make readjustment which . will give the increase which will be required to meet our added expenses y
 The Coconino Raise
 Assessor Campbell at this juneture asked Burks if the board of Coeonino had not raised the valuation on some of the lands owned by the railroad. | Burks admitted that they had but that these lands were originally group ed as unrestricted lands and had been changed to "lieu" Iands and had been fixed at $5.5O which rate was compromised to $3.5O. These lands are held for railroad purposes and a group of about 54OO acres, these lands were returned by the railroad at 10 cents per acre.
 Attorney Burks then read a sec ton from the Journal-Miner of the 24th inst. in which the statement of Professor J. D. Tinsley appears and wherein the professor says that the