Arizona republican., 1912-07-03
Statements Have Been Sub
 mitted to the Tax Com
 mission by All Railroad Companies in the State Except Southern Pacific
WHAT COMMISSION WILL LIKELY DO NEXT
It Is Hardly Worth While to Conjecture That Its Figures Will Differ Wide ly From Those of the Railway Companies


 islature and amended at the special session, which requires railroad com panies operating in the state to sub init to the tax commission statements of the value of their property, all the roads with the exception of the Southern Pacific have turned in such statements. Some days aSo d rep rcsentative of this company asked for a brief extension of time which was granted. It is expected this com pany's statement will be submitted within few days.
 Of the roads whose statements are now in the Santa Fe, as a matter of course shows the largest amount of property. The total valuation which the officials of this line place upon their property in Arizona is $7,155,- 060, or $1S.500 mile for 3S6.76 miles of track. The tax commission makes no secret of the fact that this val uatiOn will be raised though just how much of an advance will be or dcred cannot be stated at this time But il is said. for one thing. that the tctal mileage is not given. q good many miles of double track in the rorthern part of the state being left out Of the company's statement This ucW track one member of the com mission said, "is on an independent roadbed and an independent grade and therefore should be properly as sessed as independent traCkagc. Fur thermore. it has a better grade than has the old line and should be as Sesscd ct a higher rate"
 It is also probable that good many of the smaller roads will come iu for advances. Some of these roads seem to be in pretty bad shape, judG ing from their own statements: and some If them can hardly be called railroads at all. Some of the prop critics. which are burdencd with inn posing names-Such as one would eX pect to belong to a great trans continental system, are said to have perhaps a single locomotive and few miles of narrow gauge track. Others are used merely as adjuncts to mines or saw mills and of course the valuation on such roads as these is very small in proportion to the mileage. when compared with the regular freight and passenger lines.
 However, the statements made by the officials of the various roads are of an interesting character and are appended Those statements in ad Gition to the Santa Fe. already given, which are now in the hands of the tax commission are as follows:
 Arizona and New Mexico, 49 miles of track, total value $427,351.
 xl ,NF tI,.a Arizona Copper company, 15 miles of track, valuation $56,76I9S.
 Congress Consolidated Mines com pany. 3.6 miles of track, valuation not given. It is said the company's tar ifs have been withdrawn, that the present owners never expect to oper- ate the road. and that it is for sale.
 Saginaw and Manistec Lumber com pany, eight miles of main track and six miles of second track, valuation s16,2OO.
 United Verde and Pacific Railway company. 2626 miles of main track and 343 miles of second track, Valu- ation $11,630.32.
 Morenci Southern Railway com pany. 17.87 miles of track. valuation $1O7, ,220.
 Arizona Commercial Copper com pany, 4O5 miles of track, valuation $4450.
 Shannon Arizona Railway company, 1V.7O miles, valuation $35,500. Greenlaw Lumber company. 9.2o miles. valuation $25,OO0
 Arizona Eastern Railroad company 279.13 miles. valuation $1,833, ,826.5O.. Verde Valley Railway company 15.87 miles, no valuation given
 Grand Canyon Railway company, 69 miles, valuation $317,900. Western Arizona Railway company, 21.57 miles. valuation $65.OO0.
 Twin Buttes Railroad company, 1O37 miles. no valuation given.
 old Dominion Copper Mining and Smelling company, 1 miles and two miles of siding, valuation s1S,0OO. Ray and Gila Valley Railroad com pany, figures not given. Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railroad company, 195.3 miles. valu- ation S1.367,450.
 Phoenix and Eastern, 26.20 miles, valuation $105,6Q0
 Bradshaw Mountain Railroad com pany, 35.65 miles. valuation $124,773.
 Arizona and California Railway, 1O699 miles. valuation $S74,465.