Arizona republican., 1911-01-28
PROPERTY
 SCHEDULES Basis Of Future Operations
 of to. Assessors EQUALITY IN VALUATIONS
Proposed Tax Reforms Ap- piled to Agricultural In terests as Well as to the Mines and Public Utility Corporations.

On the morning following the ad
 Journment of the Arizona Assessors
 association. The Republican published
 the principal resolutions passed by
 that body, recommending a raise of
 taxes or valuations in three partic-
 ular classes of property that have
 been more widely discussed than any | others. telegraph. telephone and eX-
 press companies which pay one per ] cent of their gross revenue as taxes. producing mines which pay taxes on 1 25 per cent of their output. and on
 railroad property. In all these three
 classes of property the assessors have no greater power of action than to ! offer their recommendations to the ] legislature and to the territorial board | of equalization
 The assessors pursued two clear cut | convictions not only in respect of ! property referred to in the resolutions l but in respect of all property. One was that many inequalities existed and the other was that the valuations
 were too low not only on the three classes of property mentioned but on
 a large part of the property that is listed by the assessors themselves.
 They did a great deal toward remov-
 ing those inequalities and also a great deal toward raising valuations
 on properties in general. They hand
 ed to themselves and to each other.
 the same bunch they handed to the
 board of equalization.
 It is only fair to the assessors and everybody else that these facts be known. II is fair to the railroad express. telephone and mining inter CSts to know that the effort for bet ter and more just valuations will be applied to the livestock, real estate and alfalfa interests as well as to them. thus keeping them from being so sorry for themselves It is only fair to the assessors that the world shall know that they are just as hot on the trails of the rancher and stockman as on those of the other interests. It will make their work of assessing less criticized for all the tax payers to know that they are working on a carefully studied and unanimously adopted plan. whereby the property of all counties will be treated alike. and that the assessors have voted to stand by each other in l abiding by the adopted schedules | Heretofore a COW or mule or l stock of goods in one county might | be assessed at twice the value it was | in another county. Now they will all | be treated alike, whether right or | wrong and there can be no error in | stock except possibly in some matter of judgment as to classification. On merchandise stocks, if the owners Il give the information at their com mand there can be slight inequality; | if they do not and it is left to the assessors judgment. he will proceed in harmony with his information from those those who do furnish it. and probably will not guess very far wrong and will probably guess high enough so it will be to the interest of the store owner to play fair
 Since the association meeting ad- journed the minutes have all been up and the information is now available as to the personal property schedules adopted. It is herewith presented for the benefit of everybody:
 First-Work horses: There will be two classes, the minimum to be 5000 per head: the maximum to he de termined by the assessor at time of assessment.
 Stallions: A minimum of s1OO.OO: maximum to be fixed by the assessor at time of assessment.
 Third-Saddle horses: Saddle horses to be classed the same as work horses. the minimum being $25.OO: the