The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-26
CARR|CO GETS
HOT CR|LL|NG
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It's humanity to dodge taxes,
Carrico replied
For purposes Of illustration, the
board delyed into the assessments OF
some individuals in Oklahoma CitJ.
/ In some instances, Carrico was as
: sted in his answers by County As
,sesor Frazier Henry Overholzer
was found to be assessed for $4,000
On his home and 279 front feet Of
land. G. B Ames was assessed sac
l0N0 on his residence and Carrico said
lAmes filed a sworn complaint alleg-
ing that the valuation was outrageous
and should be reduced to $4,000.
'One OF the state officials. said
, Carrico, was assessed for $1,000 on
l.s house and wanted it reduced 10
| 81 100 He raised it TO $4,000.
| When Carrico declared that Okla
bona county should pay not more
| than 1-20 of the state tax, Frank Orr,
1 of the state auditors office read into
! the record a statement that the coun-
lty sent ITO OF the total number Of
prisoners to the penitentiary, 1-10 OF
lire inmates TO the insane asylums
land more than lilo OF the students
! 10 the state university
The board took Carricos statistics
| as he had prepared them, comparing
/ The assessments per capita in Okla
! homa and other counties, and his
! conclusions as to whether the vari-
Gus counties had been assessed for
too little or too much. lie asserted
emphatically that the poor counties
, ol Adair LeFlore and Pushmataha
were under-asse essed and that aav
county whose cures showed a per
capita value OF less than 5000 was on
the verge OF starvation. He ques-
toned the correctness OF the assess
Iments which showed a per capita
value below that figure.
President r. H. Gardner OF the
real estate exchange, under oath,
Went into the matter of real estate
values in Oklahoma City and county,
before the board OF equalization
thursday afternoon and summarized
,he entire Assessment situation with
the assertion that all town lots in
The county should be subjeted to
production of dfteen per cent
Gardner encircled the city iii his
testimony, led BY the questions of
Attorney Henry Snyder He began
with the vacant lots in the additions
northeast OF the city, near Britton !
2 he county board had reduced the
average OF lots from S35 to SIS and
Gardner expressed the belief that the
DoDerty could not be sold at any
price.
haywood addition and the Oak
ark additions, Gardner thought were |
assessed right al the top cash value. |
7 hon agttoligaA hs~ t1,-
Southtown and the property on |
Grand and Main streets west OF IIud- !
son. the witness said were left at ex-
trayagant values, because the state
toard's action was feared. should il
be reduced to its real value.
Taking a few business blocks as il :
lustrations, down town, it developed
that the Colcord building, costing
$4,000 10 erect was assessed at
100000: the Lee-Huckins hotel at
$4,000, 00O and the lots $l35,00O and
the Skirvin with lots at $3500G Jo-
seph Huckins, Jr., made an effort to
have his valuations reduced
Gardner was questioned at some
length regarding the values of lands
included in the proposed state cap
ltol site and the $50 acres to be deed
Cd the state in connection Herewith
Gardner estimated that lots near the
proposed site Of the state house
would sell for 500 each Governor
Cruce remarked that c. r. Colcord
bad appraised them at s1,250.
This led TO the explanation bv
Gardner, that all the values fixed on
The capital lands, We're based on the
assumption that the capitol would be
erected. Unless it were. he was of
me opinion that the lands would not
5e worth more than ten per cent of
The s1.200,000 at which they were an.
praised when offered to the state