The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1912-01-11
COURT MAKES
COUNTY LEVY
CITY TAX LEVY REACHES "a MILLS
Road Supervisors and County Election
Boards are Appointed by the
County Commissioners.

The State Board of Tax Commission-
ers last Thursday completed the task
OF apport'oning the state tax and
total of S., 663, ,Sl5.I5 is to be collected
during the coming year. This includes
S35, 625 for the Monmouth Normal
School, or one-hfth Of mill. The
final figure shows that the state lew
Will be 81 mills. instead of 3.5. The
levy of 3.4 mills does not include the
one-twenty fifth of mill for the Mon
mouth Normal School.
The total valuation is $500. .6I4. 1877.
The total valuation by Assessors is
1874, lis, S57 and by the State Board as
equaliZed Sl06, 525, 307.
Exclusive Of the Normal School fund
the general taxes to be raised total
SO. 02S, 1870.
Multnomah is far in the van for
state taxes, its share heing 81 ,093, ,75l. so
and Marion is second with SAP. 7l2. so
and Umatilla is third with Sl37, ,96. rs.
Hood River county's share of the
tax will be $50, 430
The Board OF County Commissioners
set the tax levy for the county Satur-
day at lO.S mills, the different items
divided as follows State, 3 mills:
county, 2.4 School. Ia; Road, SO:
County Library i. 10. these levies
will be added the special school dis
tlict levies, which are as follows:
District No. !, 0; No. 2, mills, No.
3, 6 mills; No. 4, 3.5; No. 5, 2; No. 6,
3 mills; No. T. ! mills; No. 8, 2.5
mills, No. 8, mills: No. 10, 3 mills;
No. IL, | mill; No. II, mill; No. I3,
3 mills, No. Ii, mills, No. Is. 0; No.
l6, 6 mills. Specal road taxes will
also be added They are: Distric No.
], s mills No. 2, mills; No. IL, A
mills; and No. Z, 3 mills. The city of
Hood River, through its common coun-
ti has levied a city tax of 8 mills,
which added to the general levy and
the school tax of mills makes a total
of 24.S mills.
The county court voted to include i'm
the funds to be collected from the
general tax moneys to be used for the
purpose of paying the salary of an
expert to carry on the experimental
and research work. which has been
donC by the Fellowship Association.
The work will be done in coniunctaon
of that of the Office of the county fruit
Inspector and it is likely that the same
man shall hold the same position. An
appointment will not be made until the
return of Prof w. II. Law renee, the
| Fellowship expert, from Corvallis.
where he is delivering series of
lectures.
| Road supervisors were appointed as
follows District No. |, j. f. Hen
dricks District No. 2, s. W. Curran.
No. 3, Warren Miller No. 4, Roy d.
Smith; No. 5, b. f. Eadleman; No. 6,
Hans Lage: No. z. Thos. Lacey No. 8.
{. b. Jensen; No. 8, Austin Flint
| No. 10. l.. w. Tomlinson. The latter
district. which includes territory ex-
tending from De- to Parkd9le aud to-
ward the Lost Lake country, was new
" established. The court adjourned
Tuesday afternoon.
The court appointed election boards
for the ensuing two yeals as follows:
Baldwin precinct Judges, J. h.
Putnam, chairman. w. s. Gribble and
J, NJ. LEM; clerks. j. d. Gordon. W.
II. Edick and w. c. Smullin.
Dee precinct: Judges, Allen Mae
rum, chairman, Il. IT, Green and Ray
mond Markley; clerks, S. G.. Emles,
Rory Collins and p Winans.
Pine Grove: Judges, A. l. Ma on,
chairman, j. d. McCully and u. s.
Newman; clerks, V. Winchell, Frank
c. Dethman and NJ. Dragseth.
Falls precinct: Judges, J. F. Hen
drick, chairman, j. H. Dunlop and H.
W, Taylor; clerks. 0. A. Adams, j. f.
Elliott and G. A. Young.
Fast Hood Rivpp nraainot Iuduac
John Koberg, chaimra, j. l.. Porter
and w. b. Dickerson; clerks, r. H.
Waugh, r. b. Perigo and j. h. Hunt.
Odell precinct Judges, l.. A. +.
Clark, chairman. c. C. Masiker and
W. A. Lockman; clerks, Harry Gonna
way NJ. d. OdeIl and Asa Cutler.
West Hood River precinct: Judges,
c. Dethman, chairman, l.. NJ. Bentley
and W. }. Baker; clerKs, b. E. Dun
can, J. M. Culbertson and Noah Bone.
Hood River Center precinct: Judges,
T. A. Reavs, chairman, j. l.. Hersh-
ner and G. r. Castner; clerks, A. W.
Onthank, S. B. Simonton and A. b.
Cash.
South Hood River precinct Judges,
b. F. Eadleman, chairman. F. W.
Angus and f. II. Miller; clerks, J. W.
Hicks, Harry M. Francis and G. D.
Thompson.