Tombstone epitaph., 1917-01-28
TAX COMMISSION
 WANTS SEVERAL CHANGES

the commission. Although the report has just come from the printers 1t is dated December 30th. dedicated to Governor Geo. W. P. Hunt. of the state of Arizona. and is signed by T. E. Campbell as tax commissioner.
 The commission in it's report comes out for the budget law so strongly ad- vocated by Governor Campbell on the platform during the campaign. It is also taxing automobiles according to weight, and recommends that a small mill tax be placed on moneys and credits.
 Following is a summary of the amendments to the statutes adyocat- ed in the report:
 Strengthen the tax limit and budget law; provide for the county assessor and tax collector to perform like func- tions for incorporated cities and towns and abolish the office of city as sessor and tax collector in the inter- est of economy, a more simplified tax roll that will permit the abstracts of the assessments 10 be made from the original assessment lists. That the per capita road taa De collected by the several county assessors and that the jurisdiction of county assessors for this purpose as well as for the coL lection of school and personal proper ty taxes be extended until December 18th of each year. That the law pro viding for a specific tax on expsess companies be repealed and the tax commission be permitted to assess them on a mileage basis. To provide for the administration of the inherit ance tax law by the commission. A new automobile tax law passing the tax on weight of the car. A small mill tax on moneys and credits.
 Mine Tax Problem Solved
 In its report the tax commission is positive that 1t has solved the mine tax problem. The greatest achieve ment of the tax commission" the re- port says, has been the successful solving of the great mine tax problem. For the past twenty years the Gues- ton of mine taxation has been pug zling county assessors, boards of equalization as well as the legislature itself. It is exceedingly gratifying to the tax commission to make known to the people of Arizona that its efforts to value and assess this, by far the greatest class of prop erty in the state, has met with such degree of success. That its efforts have proven successful is attested by the fact that only three minor hear ings were called for to protest against the final valuations found by the com mission when sitting as board of equalization. h some of these cases slight adjustments were made and nothing even resembling a law suit was brought about through this i'm mense increase in taxable valuation on producing mines.~
 The report takes in a world of ground, and covers everything from taxes levied on private car companies to the estimated population of the state. In regard to the latter, the commission gives the estimated popu- Iation of the state exclusive of h. dians, at 277.210. Maricopa is given the largest population, with 55.s27, while Cochise runs Maricopa a close second with 55,13s. Apache. although first in the alphabetical list is last in regard to population, having but 4,130 people in the whole county. Mohave is next to last with 7.5s9.
 There are only 25 incorporated cities and towns in rne state. These twenty-five incorporated municipali- ties. last year had a combined revenue of s1,4s3,sS1.37 and spent $1,4s0, ,70s.- 9s. or s1s.s47.5s more than they took in.
 Evidently large inberitances were few and far between during the year 1916, and the state treasurer only col Iected s7.s7s.32 as inneritan tax. as compared with s12,132.4s the year be- fore.
 RESTING EASY
 According to word from the sick