The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1915-08-03
Finish Abstract
OF Assessment
VALUATIONS HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR
Total Value of County Will Not Be Far From
Ten Million.

Saturday the county auditors
Office finished the work of footing
up the assessment roll for 1915
and making an abstract of The
same. This abstract furnishes
some information that should be
OF interest TO our readers.
II shows 1906 acres of agr1-
cultural land valued at S327563:
l2S.i5l acres of timber lands val
.ued at SL723,7t6; 67.li0 acres
.cI cut-oNor and burned-ovcr
lends valued S30i,386: 55,34G
acres of grazing land and waste
lands valued at S236,774. There
ARE 2i,937 acres of standing tim
ber owned seperale from the
land ON state lands, etc.. valued
at S26h85i and the improvements
seperale from the lands are valu-
cd at Si2l,lO5. This gives a
total of S2,078,26s as the value of
the lands, timber and the inn
lrroNemenis ON the lands i'm the
county
The value of the business lots
in the county is Sl35,035 and of
tbe residence lots, s3iO,iI8. The
value of the improvements on
These is S3t3.467 or a total value
lof SI89.92O for city lots and inn
! lprOVemenls The total value of
all real estate in the county is
S3,767,iS8.
The value of the sawmills of
the county is given at S3Il.3OO
and machinery at s53,fi5. There
is S529,695 worth of saw logs and
lumber i'm The county. The mer-
chandise, hay, and grain is val
ued at S95, ,i85. There are 1909
head of cattle i'm the county val.
ucd at Si9,5l6. OF these 67f
are mich cows valued at $50. $50.
There are 9i9 horses i'm the coun-
ty and their value is S53.89O and
there are 1875 hogs valued at 1913
and 10 sheep and goats valued at
st58.
The water craft in the county
are valued at Sl6i5. Vehicles
and harnesses are worth s9.433
and tools, farm implements, ETC..
are worth S2i7l5; furniture and
fixtures, $ll,535. The total val
uation of the personal property
ot the county as given i'm the alb
stract is S1,t7i, 1876. This sum
will be increased a number of
thousand dollars by the supple
mental personal property assess
ment which will be made i'm No
vember.
The total valuation of the coun-
ty as given i'm the abstract is 81
89G,i48, after deducting all ex-
emptions. This sum does not
Include The railroads and utilities
companies, such as telegraph and
telephone lines, power and light
ing companies and their power
land service lines and franchises
land the franchises of the Wash
lington Water Power company and
the St. Joe Improvement company
All of these are assessed by the
stale board of equalization ano
will add several million dollars
To The valuation of the county.
The total valuation of KOotcna.
county, including the territoI,
now i'm Benewah county was about
twenty-seven and a half million
and fifteen million without ths
utilities, making the valuation oil
the latter. Twelve and one-hall
million. We believe it is safe
TO say that at least one-third oi
the utilities valuation was i'm the
territory now i'm Benewah county
and if that is true the total val
uaiion Of this county will be ovel
nine million and very close {,
ten million dollars this year.
The total valuation of the par
OF Kootenai county which nov
comprises Benewah county wa
3 Sf,3li,5l5, or about 100000 les
than this year. This increas
was entirely i'm the valuation O
! the real estate. If the stat
e hoard of equalization conform
Ito the same rate i'm fixing value
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