The Penn's Grove record., 1913-01-31
BIG INCREASE
IN VALUATION
Essex County Leads With Rata
BILE Growth of $31 ,521.158
ONLY TWO SHOW DECREASE
Report of State Comptroller Edwards
en- Assessed Property Values
Startling Changes After Cam
paign for Equal Taxation.

Especial Trenton Correspondence.)
Trenton.-The report of State Comp
troller Edwards shows an assessed
property valuation of $2,289, ITO, 280.7 rs,
an increase of $123, 034, 1852 over the
previous year, as well as showing a
good normal increase of ratables as
compared with the $120, 1897, 1921 1911
increase over 1910. Essex county
leads in the increase, $31, 521, 1853,
while Hunterdon and Warren counties
were the only ones showing decreases
from the previous years figures, Hun
terdon decreasing by $142,612, and
Warren by $29,751. The growth of the
State in ratables assessed for pur-
poses of taxation is startling-from
1852, $50, $40 in 1902, when equal tax
alton" was a campaign slogan, to
$2,289, no, 2S0.7 something like 100
per cent. increase in ten years. Pre-
vious to 1902 the increase in ratables
was less than 5000, 900 in ten years,
or about % per cent. increase for that
ten years.
First Big Jump.
The figures show that the first big
Jump came in the difference in results
from assessing as $1,153, 682, 961.10 for
1905 is to $3.50, 0,073.02 for 1906.
This showed the results of the agita-
ton for full value assessing of prop
erty when the county boards of taxa
ton were instituted supplementing
the Perkins law for assessing at high
er rates the main stem railroad prop
erty. From 1906 the increases were
continuous, steadily increasing until
1911, with the 1912 total only falling
slightly below the 1911 increase. The
values of ratables by counties and in
creases over the previous years are as
follows:
Ratables by Counties.
Atlantic, Sill, 061, 963.0S, increase
$22, 1916, 096.0S; Bergen, $119,054,142,
increase $9,419,418; Burlington, $32,
SS1, 1853, increase $~1,0OS,171; Camden,
$S3, $3.50, 1872, increase $2,461, 1894. 80;
Cape May, $27, 1876, 166; increase ST.
425,250; Cumberland, $24,436,284, in
crease 1915, 296; Essex, 1852, 34S, 996,
increase $31, 521,158 Gloucester, $685.
287, 959, increase 1878 1898; Hudson,
$505, 169, 1876, increase $40, 103, 448; Hun
terdon, s20,0 99, 500, decrease $142, 612;
Mercer, $102, S92, 71S, increase $9,272,-
1853; Middlesex, SOS, 1872 95, increase
1924, 433; Monmouth, $102, 1862, lis, in
crease 1854, POS; Morris, 0,04 $50,
increase $2,O76, $50; Ocean, $18,9S1,-
QQA ipnrOoco 01 OnE 600. Doccoio Q1 IN
682,686, increase $9,7 O4, 045; Salem,
SIG, APO, 1908, increase $37,391; Somer-
set, $32,479, 757, increase 81 1855, 053;
Sussex, SIS, 741, $50, increase $115,359;
Union, $3.50, 701, 00S. SO, increase $685.
211.62; Warren, $24, 1888, 1856, decrease
$29,751; total valuation, $2,289, TO-
280.7S; total increase, $123, 207, 108. 50;
decrease, $172,363; net increase, $685.
034, 1855
Exempt from Tax.
Further study of these interesting
figures shows that there is $119, $685.
1884 worth of property in the State
exempt from taxation, or about 5 per
cent. of the total ratables used for
school, church and cemetery pur-
poses. That there is still room for
the old nickname "The Garden State
is easily seen from the fact that the
unimproved property in New Jersey
to $983,192 500 worth of improve
ments. Essex county has 1922 81 ,75S
worth of unimproved property to $780,
081,845 worth of improved property,
and $63,598,450 of property exempt
with $751;, 68S ,099 worth of unimproved
property to $245,380,6 25 of improved
property and $34,845,7 $50 of exempt
property.
Grade Crossing Measures.
That the work is not to be allowed
to lag in either the Senate or the
House of Assembly of the Legislature
during the present session is evil
denced by the many committee meet
ings for consideration of bills and the
exceptionally long list of similar meet
ings scheduled to take place in the
State House. In order to further ia
cilitate the work and to prevent pos
sible delays which might result from
necessary reprinting of bills unless
the official style is conformed to in
the original bills, all members of the
Senate, as we'll as others actively
identified with the work of the Legis-
lature, had their attention especially
called, in a printed notice, to Senate
Rule u, which reads as follows:
New Matter in Bills.
when a bill is introduced amend
ing an existing law it shall, in the