The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-09-04
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In the recent tax squabble at Boise
Idaho county received some attention
at the hands of the final arbiters of
our fate, who seemed to do Just
about as they pleased with us. We
were given a reduction of 10 per cent
on agricultural lands and town lots
and per cent on work horses; while
milk cows were increased per cent,
stock horses Is per cent and mules
and beef cattle % per cent.
The state board of equalization
placed the general tax levy of Idaho
for 1913 at 2.1 mills, raising 100000,
as against $720,2S3, the sum fixed by
the board in 1912; the general inter
est and sinking levy at 2 mill, iden-
tically the same as the last board,
and the public building endowment
fund at one and one-half tenths of a
mill, as compared to $40 of a mill
fixed by the 1912 board
The general interest and sinking
fund levy fixed this year and equal
lied among counties reaches a total
of $80,109 compared to $201,00 rails
ed by the levy in 1912, while the pub
lie building endowment levy this year
raises $60,176, as compared to $685.
753, the total raised by the former
board last year
Ada county alone will raise one
ninth of the general tax levy, one
tenth of the general interest and sink
ing fund levy and one-tenth OF the
public building and endowment tax.
State Auditor Fred L. Huston certi-
fled to the respective county auditors
in the 81 counties Of the state last
week the equalizations of the board
as between counties, showing the to-
tails apportioned to each and the tax
that will be raised by them through
the established leyies. The certifica-
ton followed three weeks of hard la
Dor on the part of the state board OF
equalization, the state tax commission
and the state auditors office.
Total Valuation $418,78o, 1894.
The total assessed valuation of the
state was found to be 1898 S,552,5 564
added to which will be $4,000, 900 tc
be reported in by the subsequent as
sessment rolls, making the grand to
tai about equal to that found by the
1912 board, or $41S,7S0 ,394.
The total assessed valuation o.
property reported by counties, aftel
equalization, was found to be 1904,
oil, 1,1S4; total valuation of railway
lines, S5,0S7 ,10O total valuation o
telegraph lines, $1,237 526 total valu
alton of telephone lines, 81 ass 1928; t
tai valuation of Pullman and private
car companies, S457 1923; total valua
ton OF transmission lines, S6,Z4S,102
and the total valuation of persona
property reported by the counties t
the board, 1914, ,391 $50. The boar
found the valuation of the trans mis-
sion lines OF the lddnO LlSnt an
Power company, one of the larges
holding companies in this state, to b
$50, 600, and the Idaho Railway, Ligh
and Power company to be 100000.
The 1912 board placed the total as
sessed valuation of railroad lines a
sS4,506,573; Pullman and private ca
companies at 1851 ,924; telegraph line
s1,152, ,455; telephone lines, $1,43O, ,49s
and the total valuation of the prof.
erty reported by the several countie
at 1891, 1928, ,S42.
Levy by Counties.
The following table shows the ta
levy as apportioned among the rt
spective counties as the result Of tn
action of the recent board:
Int. & Public Bids
County. Gen. Levy Sinking Edm
Ada. =. ..$101 .524 s S,416 s 6,92
Adams =. :. 1884 979 7S