Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-05-29

1T Is considered in fixing the mar
ket price, yes"
"Mr. Pollock will you tell me what
the expense Of this work to the county
and to the mill men will be?"
Certainly. The county contract is
for $3.S0o,oo.
When We made the contract with
the county for the appraisal of the
46 plants in the county, we had al
ready appraised twenty of them and
these appraisals had cost the mill
men about $10,o00,00."
"The county contract called for the
new replacement values and the de.
preciated values. We had hardly
commenced at the task when it de-
veloped that our appraisals, having
been made at various times during
the past ten years and under VARYING
conditions as to prices, would have
to be equalized. And it also develop.
ed that on the 26 plants which we
had not previously appraised we must,
in the interest of uniformity, go into
the same detail as on the original
twenty. This we had not contem-
plated at the time of making the con.
tract, but we nevertheless went
ahead and with large amount Of
detail we did the work. This recent
work, including that on market values,
cost in the neighborhood Of $12,5oo, 90
so that the present appraisal, all told,
represents an outlay Of $22. $4,000. 2
"The market value which the mill
men now contend is the one for the
assessor to use, is based upon selling
prices Of sawmill plants. This huc-
tuates with business conditions AMI
will change in the future as the mill
business gets better or worse. Saw.
mills have not been selling very
briskly, but they do sell occasionally
and these sales must be analyzed to
ascertain If they flt the circumstances
defined by the statute. A satisfactory
basis was worked out in this case
from local sales Of plants and numer-
GUS sales Of machinery, both local
and in other places"
Does the age Of a. mill affect its
value?"
Eyes, but perhaps the conditions is
more important than the age. We
considered both age and condition
and we show this in our county re-
port. There promised to be some
dispute on the base price of lumber,
SO to avoid trouble on that score; we
figured up every plant at Ave differ.
ent rates Of lumber from $500 to
$1,000 per thousand. I'VE also COM
puted on every plant the total feet
Of lumber and the total number of
piles. All these things were not alb.
solutely necessary but with law
suit ahead and the chance of having
our work severely scrutinized it was
best to be prepared. Besides the
future revisions Of this work for the
next five years, for the county can be
done with greater accuracy because
of the full details made at this time.
"Have any other communities that
you know Of had your sort Of service
on all their manufacturing plants?''
was asked.
Chehalis County is long ways in
advance of other communities in
equalizing values in this accurate
way, said Mr.. Pollock" 1T is safe
to say that no other county in the
United States has had it's manufac
turing plants appraised so elaborate
| ly. Portland, Oregon, is now having
it's real estate and buildings apprais
ed by an Eastern appraisal company
but with no such detail as made in
Chehalis County. With the timber
cruised as it has been done here, ant
the houses correctly valued as I un
derstand your assessor has already
done, there now remains only thu
real estate to be scientifically valuet
to complete approximately an abso
lutely perfect system"