Bisbee daily review., 1912-01-10
TARIFF
 Is REDUCED
Assessment of Rocky Mountain MoCking Birds PrOyokeS WanmeSt Discussion
 of Session
BROOMTAILS STAND PAT

Burrus and broomtails, relegated 10 the range of little business iR the dis CussiOns Of tax problems by the as sessors ot Arizona, now in session here. precipitated the warmesI dis cussiOn O. the meeting 50 far at yes terday morning session Of that body At the end. when the vote wss counted the burro emerged victorious, worth even less than he has been accounted. As the vote was being counted a burro stakcd out on Chi hUahu3 hill, just back of the council chamber where the deliberations are Leing held, confirmed the vote by a lOug-drawn -out aye-ye-ye-ye- e--e-e-e-e--ei
 There was a disposition among members from the north 10 attach real value 10 the burro and Mir. Bird no. of Graham asserted that in his county there were bUrTOs worth t20. in lawful money of the United States.
 Favor Revision Downward.
 The controversy over the valuation Of burros by tax assessors arose when the body came 10 consider the per sonal schedule Howe, of Cochise, wanted the minimum valuation of bur i ros decreased from S7 to s5. He gave his experience to the assessors, saying that when he had tried 10 assess at a minimum of g. the taK payers had ! offered To sell him DuTrOs at a flat ! te of S5 per head, while the Valna- [ ton Of S7 made the actual cash yalue | of the animal s14 He said there was not a burro in Cochise county whose maximum value was twenty dollars. , Merritt favored letting the valua- : ton remain a. it is, saying that the average burro should be pensioned anyway He advocated collecting tax of burros only from ,nose who used | them in large numbers Ar. Howe came back with the assertion that in . Bisbee man who used a large num- ber of burros in packing dirt, etc. over the hills of the district mad of- fered him the hull toot ensemble for g. per head.
 How made a motion to make thS minimum valuation Of burros t5 in- stead of g. per head and burros were revised downward by a vote of eight to five.
 The victory for cheaper burros' was apparently won but the chair un- settled the complacency Of the ad vocates Of a downward revision by announcing that Cochise county had voted three times and no other coUn ties had voted more than once. As Cochise was the hot-bed Of opposi ton to the high valuation of burros the Importance of this ruling is easily seen.
 Final victory came, however. re gardless of Cochise county's reduced representation, Howe's motion carry ing by a vote of six to three. Exit the burTo
 Broomtails and Beer.
 Next the broomtail, the outlaw came up for discussion. Chairman Campbell favored increasing the pres ent valuation of ten dollars. This suggestion brought out a diversity ol opinion and the information that there is as much difference in the value of broOmtails in Arizona as there is in the price of beer In the southwest. with the difference thai where beer comes highest broomtails are cheapest The question as 10 the relation between beer and broomtails was not gone into. Nil. Truman moved that the minimum valuation of beer no. broomtails, be increased from 3lO 10 s15.
 In the discussion that followed one member gave an Interesting expert ence with broomtails. He sail that he had once owned herd Of these inter esting pieces of moving landscape and that he had sold them for $500 on the range. The nerd was sold subse . quentiy six times and ihe last man that bought them borrowed a hun dred dollars on the herd" the mem Der said, and skipped the country Upward revision of the valuation on broomtails lost when the motion was put.