Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-30
NET RAISE IN VALUATION OF
REAL ESTATE OF COUNTY
is ,,,,sos,o2s.
INCREASE IN ASSESSED
VALUES IN CITY LARGE
Assessed Value Of City Real Estate
About Half a Million Over 1918 As
sessment-Net Increase Shows In
creases Partly Due to Increases
Ordered by Executive Council.

| An increase of nearly sixteen mil.
lions of dollars in the actual value fol
(: taxes of real estate and personal
! property. and an increase of nearly hall
a million dollars worth of moneys and
credits. is the showing made by the
! assessment of property for taxes thai
! has just been finished. Lest it be
/ understood that all this increase is
! due to the work Of the assessors, i,
should be added here that such is no,
! the case.
+! OF this increase the city furnished
, s735,22S in the actual value of real
estate and personal property ana-s400,
| 061, or nearly all of the increase in
moneys and credits.
! Comparisons Of Assessments.
! To prevent confusion it should be
! understood that the figures given un-
! less otherwise stated. are the actual
not the taxable value on which taxes
are levied, and which is one fourth OF
the actual value.
The assessments as shown in the
rabulation below are the assessments
moneys and credits made this spring,
and the assessments of personal prop
erty and moneys and credits of 1914,
but Of real estate made in 1913
1915. 1914.
ty .......s 4.s5244o S 4,744,4o9
| Real estate :. -. 1886, S04 %20,6S9.S14
ra-,Ie Ell 1904 S2S I21 oo3
NJ oneys and
credits .......s 3.920,146 5 3,464.44i
Assessment made in 1913.
The increase in the valuation Of per-
sonal property in the county over last
years assessment is s1oS,031. The in
crease of the assessment of real estate
over the assessment Of 1913 is s15,s4s,-
500. The increase ofAs.the assessment
of moneys and credits IS s455,702.
Net Increase Is Less.
The actual increase in the compare
tive assessments of real estate this year
and in 1913 is not as large as it appears
on the face altho it is still very large
sum After the 1913 assessment was
made the executive council of the state
ordered arbitrary increases in the as
sessment of real estate of 81 per cent
l
order increased The assessment value
Of real estate in this county from $780,
6S9,S14, as shown in the above table. TO
s24, Splits, the amount used for fixing
the taxable value on which taxes We're
collected in 1914 Therefore the net in
crease is si1, scoops on real estate this
year over 1913.
City Shows Gain.
In Spite IF rho fact that the assess
ment was not thoroughly made in the
city the figures show aslarge increase
in values. The statement regarding the
assessing Of City property is borne out
by the fact that in scanning the returns
in the auditors office. after the as
sessment was supposed to be finished
County Auditor a. W. Dobson and his
office help thought Of two business
firms that had not been assessed at all
An assessor was sent to them.
In the city the assessed value of rea
estate jumped s67l,1o4 above the 1913
/ assessment of the same property. Per-
sonal property showed an increase OF
| only s64124 a fact that is significant
| The increase in moneys and credits
| over last years assessment is s400,o67
! The following table shows the com
! parative assessments;
Personal property sl,397124 S1,333.OOt
Real estate $3.50. s92S,2SS '6,257, 1S4
/ Totals go. ss,325,412 sI.59o,1 49,
Moneys, credits s1,552,5Ss $1.1o2,o2l
Assessment made in 1913