Arizona republican., 1914-02-21
LAND VALUES
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property owners, which has been busil engaged in lending it's assist ance to the two assessors in ar irving at the values of all the inside frontage on the blocks in the above named district.
 In the opinion of a great majority of the several hundred property own CTS who attended yesterdays meeting between the hours of one and five o'clock, the work of Assessors Bone and Barnett and of the committee IS a very fair expression of opinion as to the inside frontage valuations of the land in the district under con- sideration.
 It is thought the values as now revised through the interchange of opinion on the part of the owners of property affected are those which will be adopted as the basis for levy ing the, taxes for the ensuing year.
 The computation of the land values according to the methods and through the use of the Somers Sys- tenn Service tables and mathematical devices will be commenced early next week, the land valuation experts of the service under the direction of the two assessing officials, being now engaged in reducing the front age valuations, approved at yester- days meeting of property owners, to the unit values, which form a basic part of the computation tables of the Somers System Service. A unit value, according to the Somers system Service experts, ir this method of land valuation, repre- sents the value of one foot front and ! 100 feet deep. located in the middle l of block, having but one factor O. value-one street accessibility. | The frontage values as placed on all the inside property of District No. ] represent the value of one foot front having a depth of 1371a feet tc twentyfoot alley These will l all be changed to the Somers unit foot, and this unit foot will there after become the yardstick of quan- tity with which to measure the val ues of all the inside frontage in each block in the district
 1 With the unit values placed on each of the four sides of every block in the district the computations of 1 the corner values will also be begun ! through the application of the rules ] for such computations as applied ir 1 hundreds of thousands of cases ir more than twentyfour cities in the United States and Canada, where Ia valuation for the equalization oi assessments has been installed
 Both City Assessor Barnett ane County Assessor Bone are mucl pleased with the progress of tn, l work to date, and are ready to com mence the work of arriving at tho frontage valuations of the second district. This is bounded by Roose- welt street on the north. Van Burer street on the south, Seventh avenu, on the west and Seventh street or the east. A committee of propert, owners representative of the owner. ship of the district will meet witt the two assessors Tuesday afternoon and place the inside frontage valua. tions on all the property in eacl block.
 This will be accomplished mucI more easily than with the first sec. tion, as the values approved at yes terday's meeting will furnish a bas, from which to work When this i. done, all the property owners il District No. ? will be invited to at. tend meeting like that of yester- days and criticize the valuation, placed on their frontages, until al arc equalized, and equity in the levy ing of the assessment is attained This procedure will be followed il each of the other sections of the cit, as the work progresses.
 William Young, who is in charg. of the application of the Somers sys tenn to the towns of Arizona, ac companied by P. J. Miller, of tn, state tax commission, left last nigh for Tucson where the work will b, begun and carried on simultaneousl, with the work in Phoenix. It will b.
 necessary to bring in at least tw'
 more experts to assist in the work cne from Cleveland, Ohio, the head
 quarters of the system, and the oth
 CT from one of the Texas cItie where the system is being applied.