Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-07-30
QUEER TAX VALUES
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL PREPARES
LIST SHOWING STARTLING
ARRAY OF FIGURES.
MANY INEQUALITIES SHOWN
state Equalization Board Will Change
Lists, Which VIII Bring Forth Pro-
tests from Districts Whose Taxes
viii In Justice Be Raised.

/ VIII IN JUSTICE DC ndieSus
Des Moines.--The state executive
council will postpone work of equal
ization of personal property between
| the counties of the state until more
| detailed information can be secured
on certain points from the county au-
ditors. There is such wide diner
ence In values Of live stock In the
various counties that the work Of ad-
] justment presents many difficulties.
The following figures prepared fer
the executive council show the in
equality in assessment Of live stock
between the counties:
Yearling colts. Keokuk county,
| s66.04; Plymouth county, $S2.32.
Two year old colts, Crawford coun-
ty, $95.07; Greene county, $780,.
Horses three year old and over,
Crawford county, s116.4O; Greene
county, $50.
Stations, Tama county, $437.7S;
Van Buren county, s1S1.S7.
Horses over one year old, Crawford
county, s109.50; Greene county, $56.
Mules over one year old, Keokuk
county, $l27.56; Greene county, $50.
Cattle in feeding, Keokuk county,
S64.01; Floyd county, s1239.
Heifers, two years old, Crawford
county, s4014; Greene and Plymouth
county, 500.
Cows, Crawford county, $51.1s;
Dickinson county, $25.
Steers one year old, Crawford coun-
ty, 1882; Winnebago county, s15.02.
Steers, two years old, Crawford
county, s51; Wright county, $2S.47.
Steers, three years old, Boone coun-
| ty, s65.43; Muscatine county, $2l.67.
Bulls, Cedar county, $54.11; Appa-
moose county, s10.3S.
Cattle, all ages over one year old,
Xeokuk county, SALTS; Wright coun-
~, $22.54.
Swine, over six months old, Lyon
county, $12.7O; Plymouth county, 81.
Sheep, over six months old, Des
Moines county, s572; Greene county,
~.
Goats, over six months old, Harri-
son county, s10.66; Story county, $l.02.
With this situation the council
! must arrive at what it thinks is a
fair valuation and order the counties
TO adjust values with reference to It.
State officials say it is not easy to
see why, on the average, yearling colts
,an be worth twice as much in Keo-
kuk county as in Plymouth county, or
how three year old colts should be
worth twice as much in Crawford
county as in Greene county. Appa.
moose county lists bulls at one-ffth
The value of the same sort OF animal
IN Cedar county. Des Moines coun
~ has sheep rated at three times the
value OF sheep in Greene county. The
figures show startling range of val
ues.
The executive council has the task
of adjusting the values as the law di
E reefs. II it causes the counties which
4 list their cattle at values too low, tc
I pay their proportlonate share OF taxes
the counties probably will be offend
ed. But it appears that there can be
no escape to offending some OF the
I counties, II the law is to be followed
i carefully as the council did last year
State Stops "joy Riding"
The state executive council hal
placed a ban on SOY riding" at thu
I states expense. The scores OF In
spectors and travelling employees o
The state will hereafter ride thu
sails" and not the soft cushions o
axis and autos, unless 1t is case o
absolute necessity.
Secretary A. H. Dawson states SOM
II the travelling employees have seei
it to travel from one town to an
other by automobile at the regula
auto rates, when there were trains GO
ing to the same town that charged on
ly 2 cents mile Then again, Their,
have been cases OF "call taxi whel
an interurban or city street ca
would have been satisfactory.
The council also instructed TIL
travelling employees that they canno
expect the state to pay them TO
meals they eat at home. Neither will
the state pay them the regular taxi
rates for trips said employees make II
their own automobiles. The state will
allow them 10 cents a mile when the.
use their own autos.
J New Iowa Corporations.
Dubuque Mattress factory, Dubuque
Iowa, $4,000.
Terminal Transfer Construction
Co., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for transfe
and storage business $4,000.
Forest City Produce Co., Independ
ence, Iowa, $4,000.
Increase OF capital stock OF Paine
! building Co., of Cedar hapids, from
I $4,000 to $4,000.
Exposition Rates to Frisco.
It will cost $3.50 to make thu
round trip to the Pacific coast and re
turn next year. The round trip iron
Missouri river points will be $50. TIL
Des Moines fare is a cut Of $40 unde
, the regular rate, because of the expo
, sition. The tickets will allow liberia
stopover privileges and will be goo
GlSO LOT u Ntbit. " LOo TAhocAeAot A1ei
Diego and other points on the coast
The special rate will go into effect o.
, March and will be good until Nc
vember 30.
VIII Try OIL On Roads.
A car load of oil, standing on tn
side tracks in Ames, is soon to b
: spread over certain selected stretche
of gravel and dirt roads in and abou
Ames. The oil has been purchase
r by the State Highway commission TO
. experimental purposes. The metho
, of putting the oil on and its conditlo
under actual country road and cit
street usage will be carefully studied
: The use OF oil as a binder for grave
a roads has been very successful on
!. short stretch of such road on the co
lege campus.