Arizona republican., 1913-12-05
LANDER BACK
 FROM LONG TRIP
Chairman of Tax Commis- sion Makes Lengthy Visit to the States of East in Search of Information And He Boosted

Hon. C. M. Zander chairman of the i Arizona state tax commission and i delegate from this state to the Ma 1 lonal Tax conference at Buffalo this ! summer, returned yesterday from a ] six weeks trip throughout the United ! States. Primarily. Mr Flanders jour | ney was taken in the interests of tax alton matters. and during his ab-
 sence from his office at the state i house he took advantage of every possible opportunity to inquire into the different manners and methods l used by the various assessors and taxing authorities in the different states which he visited
 He returned with more firmly grounded belief in the central taxing body. superior to all city and county l assessors, with an authority over them and with the right to obtain not only such information as these officials might be able to give him 1 in the regular round of their duties
 but also that the tax commission may proceed of it's own motion and ob- tain still more intimate information concerning the property, both real and personal that is to be taxed. In contradistinction from the methods in
 
 through its tax commission. is now making a complete survey of the property of that state. Already two wears have elapsed since this work was begun, and so far no more than fourteen counties have been covered. This is a poor record alongside that of Arizona, in view of the fact that since statehood. two years ago. Ari- Zona has been twice covered and ma teriaI increases in the assessments have been made each time. The aid of the county and city assessors throughout the state has been given in this work. something that the tax commission of the state of Michigan has been unable to use.
 While away, there were three times that impressed themselves possibly more forcibly on the mind of the chairman of the commission than any others. The first of these is the ad- vertising power of tine orange. The second is the wonderful future Ari- zona has in her ability to raise cot ton. And q third is that the effete east is anxious and willing to learn all it possibly can of the possibilities that lie under Arizona's blanket Of sunshine.
 oranges lIbi were ulSII t-l BN Mir. Zander on his trip the year be fore were still talked about, and it occurs to the commissioner that fl every orange raised in Arizona were individually wrapped and sent to sin gle addresses the influx of popula- ton would more than repay the com munity in general for having used So valuable a crop as a publicity medium
 While in the south MT. Zander took occasion to look into the cotton crop. and became impressed with the fact that every small town and ! towns are not more than ten or fif- 1 teen miles apart in the cotton sec i tfon-was equipped with a cotton fac tory. employing in some cases hun dreds and in others thousands of hands This was being done with l cotton crop that really looked meager | when placed alongside the green and i white fields of Sunny Arizona.
 on his return, as is customary with | every tourist along the border. the | commissioner visited Juarez, and of ] course obtained some bloody relics | and gruesome pictures of the sixth | fall of that war-ridden town