Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-01-17
THE BRIDGE TAX
 4 MERE TRIPLE Assessors of Bridge District Complete Work and An
 nounce Figures.
SMALL TAXES LISTED
Representative Bridges Would Pay Only 66 Cents a Year On ITO
 Acres of Land.

Opponents of the Jefferson county free bridge who have contcnded that the realization of the bridge means the confiscaton of their property ill taxes will receive a surprise ill the report of the asses ors of the .Jcffer- son County Free Bridge District, who assessing the property in proportion to the benefits received from the bridge. The report an interesting one, is made all the more so in view of the fact that during this week the old Free Bridge fight has again loom- ed up on the horizon and is now be- ing waged both in Pine Bluff and in the legislative halls of the new state ! capitol in Little Rock.
 w. N. Bridges, representative from l Jefferson county to the state legisla- ture, who championed the cause of the | Taxpayers' Protective Association and fought the Free Bridge. would pay 66 cents on no acres of land which he owns in Jefferson county. This has been assessed by the board in accord ance with the benefits to be derived from the Free Bridge.
 The aassessors books show that John M. Oracle will pay the following taxes in the Free Bridge distfict:.7
 On his Mud Lake plantation, 5,288 acres, $71.24 or 1 1-3 cents per acre.
 On his Ray plantation, 97 acres; $2.5S or 2-3 cents per care.
 On New Gascony place, 2,2l0 acres $2582 or 1 1-6 cents per acre.
 On Home Place and part of Roth place, 4,O69 acres, $66.64 or 1 g.; cents per acre.
 On Bankhead place, 2,23S acres $29.56 or 1 1-3 cents per acre.
 On Rob Roy plantation, four miles from Pine Bluff, S,S41 acres, $11a.2t or cents an acre.
 On his Altheimer plantation of 4,27e acres, T. H. Collier will pay an an. rral tax of only $159.39 or 3 3-4 cents per acre.
 Another opponent of the Free Bridge , Lymann Melvin Jones, of Canada, who fought the efforts of the Bridge Com mission in the courts, would pay the sum of $3O74 on 3,2O0 acres o1 land in Jefferson county. It was 1T Mir. Jones' name that one of the big gest suits against the Bridge Com mission was brought in the fedora i court. The Free Bridge would prac tically tax Mir. Jones nine-tenths o cent per acre on his property eacf year. J. Walker Jones, of Hannaber ry. owner of 1896 acres of land is assessed 3226 under the assessmen
 made by the board.
 It is an evident fact from the wOrl of this board of assessors that Pine Bluff is to practically pay for thu Free Bridge. The benefits derived will come largely to Pine Bluff ant
 the assessors are laying the taxe
 where they will counteract the bene
 fits.
 Under the same assessment the neV
 building of the Pine Bluff Hotel Com
 pany at Fifth avenue and Main stree
 will have to pay $780, The Citizens
 Banks assessment is $52O. An illus tration of the difference in the as easements is shown by the assessmen < on the residence of P. P. Byrd whicl 3 would be $40.
 1 The assessors, M. A. Hudson, ( ! H. Triplett and R. N. Burks, have bee 2 working for several weeks on thi 1 list and it was with some satisfaction ! that it was issued yesterday. Thos ' who have stood neutral on the Bridg z question may now see the nature 1 the taxation that will result from tn < erection of the bridge and the oppon ' ents will have something to ponde 2 over. X Tho following is a partial list c . the assessments which will give tn 2 public some idea of the nature of tn q equalization according to benefits dc 1 rived.
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