The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-02-14

only talk when they have something
to say. If they could only learn tc
boil down their rambling talks and
clothe their ideas in plain Anglo.
Saxon they could save a great deal
of time now irrevocably wasted.
Taxation In ELko County
Tonopah Bonanza: Elko County
is dying hard. From the very incep-
ton of the new tax movement that
county has fought tooth and toenail
every movement of the tax commits
sion to increase the assessed valua-
tons of that county. Every recon-
mendation has encountered opposi-
ton and every order has met with
open revolt. The assessor of Elko
County is one of the best posted mel
in the State, and it is naturally con-
jectured that there must be some
other influence leading up to the con-
slant and reiterated protests arising
from that quarter. In the first place
Elko County produced it's tax rolls
under compulsion. Next, the county
refused to accept the dictum of the
tax commissioners that the total val
uation must be summarily raised.
When this was disposed of and the
powers of the commission sustained
by a mandate of court, there were
other objections that evinced the
great reluctance of the officials of
Elko County to come into line with
every other county of the State. The
latest is a protest from the county
against the new form of tax roll.
Elko County declares the new form
will entail an extra cost of $4,000 in
preparation and compiling and the
ssessor has filed a protest with the
tax commissioners.
When this county gets through
protesting, it may find that it has
awakened a desire for reprisals that
will bring forth from concealment
a million or two more of property
that has escaped taxation for years.
Elko County suffers from a dominant
interest that dictates all things af-
fecting the welfare of the small tax
payer and it is inferred that these in
terests have had their toes pinched
by the drastic orders of the tax COM
mission. Some of the objections are
of the most puerile kind. For in
stance, the following summary of
the reasons advanced by the assessor
of Elko County only demonstrates
the fact that his Office is not equip
ped with modern appointments, and
the soone this want is supplied the
better for all concerned. The Elko
Free Press says:
IF the new roll and new form of
description of property are adopted,
it will require two additional deputy
assessors for six months each, at a
salary of 500 a month, or q total of
$1,000, and the county treasurer will
have at least two deputies for three
months at 500 a month each, a cost
of $500 for that office, or a grand to-
tai of $500 for the two offices. In
addition to this, it would require
half a dozen or more copies of the
rolls, which are high priced and the
county would have to buy an expen-
sive tabulating typewriter, all of
which would bring the expenses up
to over $4,000 a year.
"The new form of description of
property goes into the most minute
details, many of which appear nom
sensical for the purpose of assess
ment."
Replying to the above the Elko
Free Press says: Any change that
will bring forth from concealment
the millions of Elko County that have
gone unlisted will be welcomed and,
in the end, the county will be the
beneficiary. The elective and APP
pointive officers of the county may
have to do a little more work., but
they al stand it without exhaustion.
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