Bisbee daily review., 1912-01-11
ASSESSORS FINISH BUSINESS IN ONE
 MORNING SESSION
Final Matters Are Considered and Yuma Selected for
 Next Meeting
MINES AND BANKS UP

| MINES AND BANKS UP i The convention Of the Arizona As sessors association adjourned yes terday afternoon at 1:3O o'clock, hay ing completed it's business. Yester- days session was devoted largely to the discussion of resolutions reported i by the resolutions committee. on matters that had been referred to that bodyduring the previous ses- sions.
 The last item of business was the election of officers for the year 1912. T. r.. Campbell, of Yayapai county. was reelected president of the as sociation; George F. Truman, of Pinal county. vice president. and E. A. Hughes, of Cochise. secretary and ! treasurer.
 Yuma Gets Meeting The next annual meeting will be held at Yuma on the second Monday Tin January, 1913. Yuma extended an 1 invitation to the assessors to meet : in that city, through the Yuma coun- ! ty representative at the meeting, A ] B. Ming The invitation carried with | it the promise Of automobiles for the | use of the assessors, a banquet, and
 a hall in which to hold their ses 1 sions. Mir Ming wired the Yuma | chamber of commerce last night of the associations acceptance of the | invitation.
 As was forecasted by the vote mak. | ing the bullion tax matter the spec
 ial order of business for yesterday. | that matter was the chief subject of
 discussion in the meeting yesterday. Two resolutions had been presented
 embodying recommendations to the legislature for certain changes in the i assessed valuation on the output O,
 mines.
 BIrdno Seeks Increase
 Mir. Birdnos resolution called for ! an increase Of from % per cent to 40 per cent on the gross production
 of producing mines. The present val
 nation is placed at 9 per cent. This
 resolution was adopted. only Mir. ! Campbell voting against it
 Mir. Campbell himself had offered q
 resolution providing for taxing the
 net prodution of this class Of mines,
 and he made a lengthy address in
 support of his plan.
 The Birdno resolution is practically
 the same as that passed al the 1910
 meeting of the assessors at Phoe-
 nix. but no legislature has met since
 that time, so the resolution was re- newed.
 | The resolution on the valuation Of railroad property embodied Iecom- mendation to the legislature to fix ! the valuation on this class of prop ! erty on the gross income. leaving the ] percentage to be stipulated by the | legislature. The resolution was re- | ferred to the committee on legisla- tive revision. which will frame a bill and submit it to the legislature. Banks sSe Considered The committees resolutions on tie matter of banks carries Q request that the legislature change he pres ent law so as to allow assessors to assess the real estate of banks sep arately. and deduct it from the as- sessment on the capital stock. The sentiment of the members Ct the as- sociation was that this would DC the more correct method of making as- sessments on bank property. ana the change will be technical rather than real. Mir Howe, of Cochise, offered a resolution reducing the minimum valuation of non-producing patented mines from S35 per acre to S an acre. and the resolution was adopted.
 Mir. Howe's action was a renewal of fight he made last year and lost. In the 1910 meeting of the assOcia- tion he offered the same amendment, but it was voted down. Acting inde- pendsntly, MT. Howe made his mini mum assessment on this class of prop erty at g., but it was raised by the state board of equalization to S35. The Howe resolution divides thIs class of property into two classes, Class A and and Class B, Class A to be assessed at s.
 A resolution to exempt lodge prop erty from taxation was lost
 A resolution memoTializing the state legislature to exempt peTsoEai property to the amount of Sl0O for the benefit of heads of families whose personal property holdings do not eN- ceed that amount, was passed. In the last meeting a resolution exempt ing s200 of personal pTope.ty from taxation was lOSt. In New MeNicO the personal property exemption is S2OO.
 Before adjourning, President Camp bell appointed a legislative revision committed. composed of the officers Of the association and five other mem- bers. This committee will be be at Phoneix when the first state legisla- ture convenes, and will work for the passage of the measures that it has recommended, one of the most i'm portant ones being the creation of a state tax commission.
 The committee named by Presi- dent Campbell to frame bills for sub mission to the legislature is com posed of the officers, President Camp | bell, Vice President Truman and Sec