New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-09-13
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personal property of Brown county at
$2,O69, 806 with true valuation Of
$6,483,7l5 are facts that were learned
after the work of abstracting the personal
properties as, returned by the assessors
IN the different cities, villages and towns,
equalized by the board of equalization
and tabulated by County Auditor
Louis G. Vogel had been completed.
This shows an increase in valuation of
$l,3l7 over last year.
Money and credits are listed separat-
ly and 92S persons must pay taxes on
that class of personal property which
amounts to $1,122,956; thus making
the sum total of SO, 1872, 762.
Class two is mainly household goods
and personal property used for domestic
purposes and is assessed at rs per centum
Of it's value. The total value Of this
class of property in the county amounts
to $211,S36; rugs and carpets, $9,771;
books, pictures, bric-a-brac and works
of art, $4,320; there were 1861 sewing
machines valued at $13,301. There
were 4,412 watches and clocks with
valuation of $500; jewelry, diamonds,
gold and silver plate, $2,841. Brown
county has $11,364 worth of diamonds
and other jewelry owned by it's tax
payers. $50 pianos were assessed at
5000. All other property which is
used by the owner for personal and
domestic purposes or for the furnishing
and equipment Of the home, was assessed
at 1854. The board of equalization
gave this class of personal property a
valuation of 1901 ,737; while it's true
value is 81, 203,1O
Assessors show the increase in the
number of horses to be more than 200
over last year. There are 1872 horses
under one year old with valuation of
$6,413; l,045 horses one year old and
under two, $1,000; 1,O26 horses two
years old and under three, $3O,854;
9,100 horses three years old and over,
$364,l76; % stations, fine bred mares
and race horses, $4,065.
The number of cattle in the county
is somewhat smaller than that of last
year as there are now 27,626 head or a
decrease of 1924. Valuations were
placed as follows: 5,495 under one year
old, $22,198; 1924 one year old and
under two, $46,778; 1888 two years old
and under three, $45,633; 14,76O COWS,
$219,643; 676 bulls, $14,OO5; so cattle
three years old and over, 1925.
Brown county has 1,O11 sheep with
an assessed valuation of $2,155. There
are 1917 hogs and they are valued at
$47,540. Poultry valued at $4,000
was reported while 2,134 dogs are worth
$7,158.
There are $127,876 worth of farming
implements used by the farmers of the
county; 1924 wagons, buggies and sleighs
valued at $63,751 and $27, O52 worth of
harness and saddles.
Assessors found 1900 automobiles in
the county and their average taxable
valuation was placed at $15O.7O with a
total valuation Of $180,877. There are
70 motorcycles and bicycles valued at
$1,097 while the valuation of 80 other
vehicles was placed at $1,197.
Articles contained in class three are
as follows: Grain, grass seed, flax seed
in the hands of producers, $26,655; all
other agricultural products in the hands
of producers, $4,584; threshing machines
and other outfits used herewith, exclusive
of engines, $8,952; steam engines, boilers,
gasoline engines, dynamos and electric
motors, $31,116; locomotives, steam
shovels and other machinery used in
mining, $2,385; manufacturers tools,
and machinery which are
not assessed as real estate, $11,O48;
wheat, flour, barley, malt, faxseed,
linseed oil and allsother grain and grain
products in the hands of manufacturers,
$26, $50; pulpwood, pulp and paper, $40;
lumber, lath and shingles, $31, 296; logs
posts, poles and railroad ties, $172;
brick, cement, lime cement block and
quarried stone in the hands Of dealers or
manufacturers, $2,245; all manufacturers
and manufactured articles
not above listed, in the hands of manu-
facturers, 81, 1884; goods and merchandise
Of wholesale merchants and jobbers,
$6,244; goods and merchandise of retail
$239,S14; typewriters, adding
machines, cash registers and computing
scales, $3,384; safes, $2,714; store fur
niture and fixtures not above listed,
1892; Office fixtures, including instru-
ments, equipments and libraries of pro-
fessional men, $8,441; fire arms of all
kinds, $542; presses, typesetting ma
chimes, type cases and furniture, equip
ment, fixtures and stock on hand of news
nap orS and nrintino offices @S 1913.