Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-22

| place. Governor Hawley insisted to the
| assessor of that county that he should
value the lands and the livestock and
the city and town lots and the mer-
chandise and things of that sort at L
hundred cents on the dollar and they
did pretty good job OF assessing ~
there on that property. Uaughter) The
! total assessed value of the entire
county in 1911 was s9.5S5.011 and the
property of the county. excluding the
railroads. telegraphs and telephones In
1912 was within $1,000 Of that amount,
so the assessor did a pretty good job.
He raised the value Of that property
OF that county except the railroads.
telegraphs and telephones-he raised
1t very much indeed
But when the state board OF equali-
cation got busy with that county, this
is what 1t did to them: 1t In
creased the valuation of the proper
ties of that county above the valua-
ton the assessor had put upon them
in this fashion: irrigated and agricui-
tural lands. s629,6o5 or IA per cent:
residence and bushes; lots S1b7,111.
or 10 per cent: dry farm lands. $2I,.
7i5 or an even hundred per cent; they
just doubled the value OF that prop.
erty. They raised common cattle 70
per cent. milk cows 30 per cent, graded
horses 20 per cent, stock horses As per
cent mules IL per cent. sheep II per
cent and swine so per cent, or a total
raise on the valuation of livestock Of
sl15,S77. and they increased the valu-
alton of the railroads, telegraphs and
telephones of that county only s14s.-
565 That is what they did to Bonne-
vile county.
In Lincoln County.
And here is what they did to LIN.
coin county: You know that at that
special session which Governor Hawley
called for the purpose of revising the
tax laws Of this state which he said VIA
a good thing. they passed n law au-
thorizing the state board Of eQualiza-
ton to employ some tax experts to go
over the state and find out the values
of properties. ana Mr.. Robertson. one
of those tax experts went down to
Lincoln county on three different oc-
casions. and in company with Mr.. 1sen-
berg, the assessor went pretty nearly
all over, that county. l don't want to
say anything to your people here.
which Governor Hawley will dispute
hereafter, and so I am going to prove
what I am about to say with refer.
ence to him by his own handwriting.
1 have in my hands Exhibiting paperD
some letters written by the governor
to Mr.. Isenberg, the assessor and tax
collector OF Lincoln county: and the
governor. you know, ever since he has
been in office, has been insisting upon
full cash valuation on the lands and /
the livestock and things OF that sort. I
Here Is what he said in the letter Of
July 1, 1911. to Mr. Isenberg. after call.
ing attention to complaints that had
come from down there that Mr.. Isen.
berg hadn't been valuing property at
full cash value, the governor says: IT.
however. you have made assessments
at this low figure. the best thing you
can do Is to call the attention OF the
county board Of equalization to the
matter and have the proper raiss
made. because there will be no tolera-
ton Of any other method except full
cash value And In his letter Of July
%. 1911, he said to Mr.. lsenberg, after
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