The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-25
Total of 1OS Cases Show h. creases Between Five
 and Six Millions
SET FOR HEARING
 DURING NOVEMBER
Understood That Organized Effort Will Be Made to Show Injustice of the Newly Increased
 Assessments

| of increased property assessments with | the board of revenue at the joint meeting
 held yesterday which will raise the present
 assessment to between s5,Ooo,oOo and s6,ooo,- 000 The total number of assessments raised was 10e, of which many were passed
 on by the board of revenue at the recent
 hearing, and 1t is stated that many of
 these cases had been settled by agree
 ment between Capt. J. V. Allen and the
 property owners There are several new cases, however, on the list submitted by
 the state tax commission that had never
 been submitted to the board of revenue
 for adjudication.
 There were present at the meeting yes
 terday, Job Going, president; Dr. R. F Lovelady, c. B. Rogers and Dr. J. B. Vines of the board of revenue; J. Lee
 Long. president, and Judge A. A. Evans
 of the state tax commission. The session was brief. MT. Long stated the purpose of the conference and submitted a list of 10S property holders whose assessments
 had been raised by the state tax commis- sion.
 The members of the board looked over the list and called attention to the fact that some of the raises had been settled by mutual agreement, and that there were a number of new cases. MT. Long
 announced that motion was in order to set aside the present assessments in which proposed raises had been made Judge Evans made the motion to set aside the
 action of the board of revenue and to re- tba
 the motion, the two members voted aye
 and the motion was adopted.
 Will Be Heard in November The date of hearing before the state tax commission was set for November IL
 12 and 13, and notices of the hearing were
 tifying them of the proposed raises. This
 concluded the business of the meeting and
 the conference was adjourned. Many substantial raises have been made by the state commission over the present
 assessments, the largest being those of the
 Birmingham Realty company, which is | raised to $2,772.9i4, and of the Sloss-Shef- field Steel and Iron company, which is sci
 at $2,Ss7, ,e04. The assessment of the Cox DTOpeIly, WillCn WdS stS d Sitc for the extension of the Hillman hospital was fixed at s24,0oo. T. H. Motion and L. l.. Motion were raised to $1S0.640, and the
 Morris Adler company S131, ,o50. while with
 the exception of about 20 cases, the raises range between s10,O0O and s40oo0 in eacf instance.
 The hearing of these cases will be be fore the state tax commission. which has set for hearing about 90 cases a day. Il is understood, however, that the state
 commission will continue the hearings un-
 til all the cases have been disposed of Il was said that the reason the state com
 mission set the date of hearing in Novem-
 ber was owing to stress of business and
 other engagements involving the tax com
 mission.
 The several members of the board stat
 ed that they had no comment to make
 on the action of the state tax commis- they were governed by the evidence be- fore them. and that each case was de-
 cided according to the light before the
 members.
 That the proposed raises will be op- posed by the property holders is conceded
 as among those raised are a number of
 large owners of real estate and other property holders who made a fight before the board of revenue. It is also stated that the legality of the raises by the state commission will be gone into and every inch of the ground contested. For the state will appear Frank s. White, Jr and Col. Jesse Stallings, and it is prob-
 able that an organized fight will be made by the property holders. List of Raises The list of property raises is as follows: A. A. Adams. s47,9S0. A. F. Armstrong and J. B. Shivers, as executors, $46, ,500
 American Ice and Fuel company, $33, GOO Morris Adler company, sl31,550. Age-Herald Publishing company, s45 900 Anheuser Busch company, s75,0O0 J. M. Barnes $1S,000. Birmingham News company, $28,200 Miss Mamie M. Brent, s20,000 Blinn estate. s3O75c. Central Park Land company, s17, ,190. J. M. Cartwright, agent for Miss Stew art, s750O.
 Bailey & Howard. trustees sl5625. J. l.. Brownlee, sS7,000. James B. Burgin, $lS,000. Frank P. Culver, $22Do0. H. Chairsell $99O0. Craig Cofield, sl6,920. John S. Cox, s24,000. Sallie J. Coyle. S51 900. c. E. Cox, s21,4 Jsham J. Dorsey, s22,500. Mrs. G. M. Davis. s1s,5 800 D. T. Davidson $500. J. R. Dowdell. slS,000. l.. Y. Dean, $14325.