The copper era and Morenci leader., 1912-07-19
COMMISSION EQUAL|zE.S
 ASSESSMENT
Spends, Day in Clifton Listening to Arguments Relative to Values of Mining Prop erty in Greenlee
 County.
GROSS PRODUCT IS THE BASIS
At Full Output and Shannon Gets
 Reduction.

hO OIdCO l ak OOHIulSSlOQ, cOInpOS-
 ed of Messrs. Zander, Howe and Miller,
 arrived in Clifton on Sunday even
 ing last on an official visit for the pur-
 pose of meeting with the County
 Board of Equalization and equaliz-
 ing the asSessable property of this county by making certain recommen-
 dations, particularly regarding the as-
 sessment of the mines of the large
 producing mining companies.
 The Commission came to Greenlee ! County direct from Yavapai County
 where they had been in session for
 two days going over the assessment
 of mines in that county The con-
 mission arrived on Sunday afternoon
 and spent several hours Sunday even-
 ing at the court house, in company
 with Assessor Jas. H. Kerby, going
 over the assessment roll.
 On Monday morning at g o'clock there was large gathering of parties interested in the office of the Board of Supervisors. Among those pres ent were the State Tax Commission,
 MT. Zander, of Maricopa county; MT. Miller, of Yuma county; and MT
 Howe, of Cochise county; Norman
 Carmichael, Genera1 Manager of the A. c. Co.,, accompanied by J. G. Coop
 CT. Cashier of the Company and Jos.
 H. Kibbey, Esq, attorney for the com
 pany; J. W. Bennie, General Manager of the Shannon Company, accompan- jed by Chief Clerk Spriggs, and Judge B. w. Lewis, attorney; A. T. ThoIn- son, General Manager of the Detroit Copper Company, accompanied by M H. Mclean, Mine Superintendent of the same Company. Members of the Board of Supervisors present were Wade Hampton, Chairman; c. P. Dunn and R. A. Campbell, Members. Assessor Jas. H. Kerby was present and several others, including District Attorney Horton.
 On behalf of the Tax Commission Chas. w. Howe made a brief state ment of the Tax Commission Law and the purposes of the Tax Commission under that law. He called attention to the short space of time allowed the Commission to complete it's work for this year and dwelt upon the impossi- bility for fixing a correct ad yaloreum on mining claims. Mir Howe stated for the Commission that general rule had been adopted, for the pur- pose of assessing producing mines in Arizona for the year 1912, and that the rule adopted would be strickly ad- hered to unless it could be conclusiv- ely shown that the producing mining company had been operated at a loss or comparatively small profit when compared with other producing min ing companies.
 The rule and procedure adopted by the commission will be to assess all producing mines at the full gross out put for the year 1911, distributing the amount of the production over the number of producing mining claims. In this mannes each producing mine will be given a certain valuation, according to it's location, but the az gregate of all the producing mines operated by mining company will equal the total production of that com Dany for the year 1912. This rule was in Greenlee County as re- yards the Arizona Copper Co.,, and the Detroit Copper Company. These two were assessed upon the ull gross production for the preceding ,ear. The Shannon Copper Company vas assessed for Sixty per cent of his figure.
 The commission stated that they lad taken into consideration the cost if production of this company and it's small earnings over the aSt ten years.
 In pursuance of the recommenda- ions of the commission the produc- ng mines of the Shannon Copper Co.,, yere assessed at $976, 7S7.00 The A. :. Co.,, producing mines are assessed t $3,S57, ,361. .00 and the Detroit Cop CT Company S2,2S5, ,S00.00. The Stand I'd mines are assessed at $10,1O0 and le Standard Consolidated at $4,S62.OO
 The Tax Commission also recom- tended to the County Board of Equal .ation that the assessment on the pat nted non- producing mines, as placed y Assessor Kerby, be allowed to and as fixed and with reference to ,e assessment on Concentrator No. 6, the A. c. Co.,, that the County Board rive at the assessment of this mill inspecting the books of the con- any as to the cost of the plant.
 The morning session of the com ission was devoted to hearing argu- cnts by the Managers of the com mics and their attorneys as to the amer of making returns of the pro-