Arizona republican., 1913-10-04
MANY CASES
 PRESENTED
In the Tax Commission " Three Were Reported on or Heard Yesterday, In- clrlding U. V. Express and Worlds Fair Mine

The hearing of the United Verde and Pacific Railway company. which was set for yesterday at the request Of that company, was at the option of the company postponed or can celed. Which it is hard to say from i the tone of the letter received in the office of the tax commission early ! this morning. At any rate the rail road and express companies notified the commission that it would not be | on hand for the hearing as a former letter had announced The company requested that the commission pro ! ceed with the matters of the com pany, using a basis for action the opinions which had been cited pre- Viously, and that the commission re- duce the tax assessment to an equit- able point which as shown in the protest, was necessary.
 Howe Home from Tombstone Charles R. Howe who has been in the southern part of the state for the past few days on tax matters re- | turned to the capitol for the hearing 1 of the |. V. express case yesterday
 But before returning he adjusted matters which the Boquillas Land and Cattle company had protested against and recommended his action to the | ] pany had complained that the assess ment on their lands was much too 1 high but the examination of the case i by Howe proved that the company 1 was taxed at the same valuation as 1 We're all the other lands in that re- 1 zion and that some of the lands Iy- l ing near their lands and in no bet : ter condition than the cattle com pany'S lands Were taxed at an even higher rate MT. Howe therefore re- commended that the valuation be aI- lowed to stand
 In the protest of the BOquiIas peo- pie that the levy on the improve ments on the lands was negotiable, examination proved that while some of the improvements might vary a little one way or the other from the 1 line of equity, the balance of the variations would tend to make the assessment as even and fair as is possible to establish. He therefore recommended to the commission in report that the protest be denied and that the assessment be allowed to stand.
 Worlds Fair Mine
 telegram received late last night from C. M. Zander, who is at the present time in NogaIes where he and Assistant Attorney General Hardy have been looking into the petition of the Worlds Fair Mine company com plaining that the leVies on it's prop erty were unfair, unconstitutional and several other things, states that the case has been decided and that the levies will stand as they are. Tn re- gard to the matter of unconstitution- ality the courts have not ruled. The message was as follows.
 Decree of court on valuation of Worlds Fair mine not excessive and 1 allowed to stand Matter of consti- | tutionality of law not considered.
 e. M LANDER"
 The owners of the Worlds Fair. 1 Mary and Frank Powers. have com l pIained that the assessment on their l property was excessive and that there | should have been no levy at all since l the property is unpatented. The law l provides that all patented property be 1 assessed as real estate and all other | mining property as personal property. The Worlds Fair is levied on as per sOnal property. and il was at this levy that the complaint is aimed. The hearing at Nogales however will set tie the matter unless the owners take their contention to higher courts.