The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-12-10

work:
Added to revenue of taxing
districts ....... .........$ $4,000
Additional property placed on
tax rolls .................. 49, 900
Increased personal property
collections ........ .......$ 10000
Cost of public utilities com
mission, first Is months >. $26, $500
Cost of tax commission first
Is months $l0, 1886
life of the public utilities commission,
that part of the time for which the
accounts have been made up, the total
lcost to the state was $37,350.65. This
amount also includes the expenses of
the tax commission, which is compos-
ed of the same members as the public
utilities commission, occupies the
same offices and the members of which
serve without salaries for this partic-
lular work.
When the commissions were created
the legislature appropriated $4,000 for
their work during the biennium,
Therefore the work for the first period
cost something more than one-third
Of the total amount at its disposal.
The expenditures of the utilities COM
mission used $26,5S6.99, and the re-
mainder, s1O76366, went toward the
operations of the tax commission.
Handles Big Cases.
Two hundred and twenty six cases
were handled by the public utilities
commission during that period Many
of these were minor affairs, such as
Iovercharges on freight or discrimina-
Itions as a result Of unjust rates. Fur
Their than this, the commission brought
or took part in two cases before the
Interstate commerce commission.
These were the coal rate case and the
log rate case, which are now pending.
Among the more important cases
which have been acted upon by the
utilities commission are the power
leases in the southeastern part of the
state where, as result Of the influ-
ence of the commission the rates have
been lowered 35 per cent. Another
lease is the Hill City branch rate mat
ter, where charges were made more
equal in comparison with parallel
lines. 1t is estimated by Mr. Miller,
accountant for the commission, that
the people Of southeastern Idaho have
been saved $4,000 by the reduction in
rates made by the Great ShoshOne
Power company, $4,000 by the South
ern Idaho Power company changes and
1884 by the difference which the COM
missions rulings have made per year
in the cost Of water to the people OF
Pocatello
Adds to Revenue.
AS to the work of the tax commis-
sion, it is estimated that total OF
$4,000 or an excess of that has been
added to the revenue of the various
; taxing districts over the state by ad-
ditional property placed on the tax list
through scientific and systematic ap-
praisement of the corporate property
of the state and by the discovery OF
taxable property that had never been
assessed at all.
1t Is estimated over the state that
; there was total of 100000 placed
on the tax rolls through the efforts OF
the tax commission. In Idaho county
alone the addition is said to be more
than $4,000. Much was added to the
tax rolls through the enforcement OF
the law relating to the collection OF
the personal property tax. Collections
last year in this item alone are estlih-
ated to have increased $4,000.
Prepares Statistics.
Another work for which the tax
commission claims credit is the prep
aration of statistical data at the re-
quest Of Governor Haines showing thp
source of all revenue and classlneI
statement Of the expenditures OF all
political subdivisions of the state, as
well as all departments of the state
government. 1t is generally CONCEDED
that this report has done much IN the
way of keeping down expenditures ana
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