The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-08-22
D diamonds, Silver and Gold Plate and
Other Personal Property In
This County
From Mondays Daily.


County Auditor c. l.. Kennedy has
sent to the state tax commission
the abstract for personal property
for Blue Earth county for 1913. The
following are some of the figures
culled therefrom: Number of per-
sons assessed, exclusive of firms and
corporations, 1886; horses under one
age $S.05; horses one year old and
under two 1901, assessed $1S,125,
average, $12.07; horses two years
old, and under three, 1885, assessed
$29, 449, average $22.06; horses three
years old and over 1924, assessed
$4O7,406, average, $36.17; stations,
fine bred mares, and race horses,
So, assessed $7,099, average, $13269;
cattle under one year old, 1903, as
sessed, $9,364, average $500; cattle
one year old and under two, 6,162,
assessed $31,155, average $500; cat
tie two years old and under three,
1898, assessed $32,O7S, average $500;
COWS, 1912, assessed SCOPES, aver
age $1205; bulls, 4SS, assessed ST.:
314, average $14.99 all other cattle
three years old and over, So, as
sessed $941, average $14.93; sheep of
all ages, 4,192, assessed $6,365, aver
age $1.51; hogs of all ages, 17,436,
assessed $7O,525, average $4.O5;
poultry, assessed $22,646;, dogs
over six months old, 2,439, as
sessed $12,273, average IS; farm
tools, implements and machinery,
assessed $133,029; threshing ma
chimes including engines, assessed
ST., 292; wagons, carriages and sleighs,
{ 5,44S, assessed $9O,1S5, average
$1655; automobiles, including auto
trucks, $50, assessed $117,579, aver
age $213.78; motorcycles and BIZ
cycles, rs, assessed $1,755, average
$23.O9; melodeons and organs, COS as
sessed 1881, average $13O3; pianos,
1854, assessed $11O,S69; average
$71.34; household goods and wearing
apparel including sewing machines
watches, clocks, books, pictures and
works OF art, assessed $376,310; gold
and silver plate and plated ware
assessed $376,310; diamonds, jewelry
and watches, assessed $9,526; goods,
merchandise and store fixtures, whole
sale merchants, S63,526; goods, mer-
chandise and store fixtures, retail
merchants $421, 547; logs, poles, posts
and railroad ties, 500; lumber, lath
and shingles, assessed $44,615; grain
and farm produce in hands of manu-
facturers, assessed $6,S45; other ma
terial and manufactured articles, as
sessed $10S,513; manufacturers tools,
implements and machinery, assessed
$l1O,624; street railway cars, asses
sed $4,000; shares of bank stock.
assessed $294,332; bonds and stocks
other than bank stock, assessed ST.
l10; furniture and equipment of
hotels and rooming houses, assessed
$l2,O39; office furniture including the
instruments, equipment and Libraries
OF professional men, assessed S23.-
~; stocks and furniture of sample
rooms and saloons, fifty-two, assessed
S2O,O85; stocks and furniture of res.
taurants, eating houses and cafes,
assessed $6,736; stock and equipment
OF billiard and pool rooms and bowl
ing alleys, $3.50; furniture and
equipment of barber shops, $2,215;
machinery and equipment of laun
dries, $4,730; steam, gasoline and
oil engines and boilers, $7,907; steam
and motor boats, sailing vessels,
barges. etc., $414; elevators, ware
houses and improvements on railway
lands, forty-eight, $26,594; structures
on lands entered under United States
land laws, $500; the value of all per-
sonal property not listed in the pre- |
ceding items, $25,339.
Total value of personal property
in each assessment district. as equal |
lied by the county board:
Danv1lle ................... .$55,620
.Medo ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 75,209
McPherson .................. 54,742 !
St Clair ................. 26,673 |
LeRay .................. 54,735
Eagle Lake ......... ......... 1905 |
Jamestown 90 XII |