Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-27
INCREASES RUN FROM II TO IS
PER CENT OVER ASSESSORS
FIGURES.
MADE TO HAVE
ASSESSORS RAISE VALUES
County Board Of Equalization Felt
Sure They Would Not Stand, But
Decided to Await Executive Couneil's
changes-No Change Made in Cattle
or Hogs.

WIN increases running from IL 10 90
per cent in all classes of horses owned
| in this county, figures reported by
township assessors to the county audi
| tor last spring were made to look fool
/ ish upon the receipt of the returns on
| tie assessment from the state execu-
tive council by County Auditor Dob
! son.
| The county auditor and some Of the
older assessors in the county made an
| effort when the figures Were brought
! in to have the values increased, but the
younger assessors We're not willing to
change them, and the values went into
| the executive council as they were re-
| turned.
| The supervisors, as a county board
of equalization, knew that the values
were too low, but felt that the execu-
tive council might make some changes
any way, and that the figures of the
executive council might as well be
awaited and the changes made at one
time. The changes to be made entail
a great deal of work in the county
auditors office as the books of the
different townships have to be gone
| over and corrected to conform to the
new values.
Stations Raised IS Per Cent.
| The biggest increase made by the
executive council was in stations, the
value Of which was increased 65 per
cent. or from s212.70, returned by the
assessors, to 1851 per head.
/ The other increases in horses were
! 81 per cent on mules, from $6S.57 per
head as assessed by the assessors, to
$3.50; 81 per cent on 1-year-old colts,
from s3S to s46: 3-year-old horses p
per cent from s73 to $3.50; and 2
year olds IL per cent, an increase from
an assessed valuation of the assessors
of se3 per head, to $40.
| These increases make a Inference Vi
the assessed valuation of horses In the
| county between the assessors ana
1 executive councils figures Of 1928, Az,
and brings the total valuation of the
horses of the county up to s1,276,624
4 instead of s1,O53,1s2, the total assessed
valuation reported by the assessors.
No Changes in Cattle and Hogs.
Altho no changes were made In
either cattle or hogs, sheep values were
raised per cent over the assessors
figures. Instead of sheep being as
sessed at S33S per head, the new fig
ures place them at 1882. At this figure
the total valuation Of the sheep in the
county is s35,s4O.
The assessors returned hogs at a
higher price than the county board OF
equalization allowed, and the figure as
! returned by the county board stands.
The assessors returned hogs at an
average value of 1915, and the county
board reduced this to ss.77, the figure
certified by the executive council.
/ The county board Of equalization also
reduced cattle in feeding from the as
SCISSORS figure of $40 per head to s4i.
and the latter value is the one the state
executive council returns.
The values as sent in to the execu-
tive council for different classes OF
cattle follow: -year-old heifers,
s20.41; 2year-olds, $3.50; COWS,
1921; 1-year-old steers, s25.41: q
year-old steers, s34.OS; 3-year-o OLD
steers, s42.3s; bulls, SAL.
the county is shown to be s1,oS4415
and that of the hogs s4s66s4. These
two items, together with the value OF
horses and sNeep owned in the county
brings the total assessed valuation OF
livestock in the county 10 s2,SSo, o63
No Change in Land Value.
AS announced in the Times Republi-
can a few days ago, the average value
| per acre in Marshall county was re-
turned by the executive council al
ssO.44 which is higher than any Of
the adjoining counties, not excepting
Grundy, where there is no river tc
place some of the land along stream
and consequently make it rough. The
figure for land as fixed by the execu-
tive council is the same as returned BY
i the county board Of equalization as
fair average for the county.