Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-06-05
VALUATION TO
BE INCREASED
CITY FATHERS MAY ENNEX
EAGLE PARK ADDITION
AND RAILWAY LAND.
TOWN TAXES WOULD BE LESS
Property Owners Want Assurance of
Concrete Sidewalk.

The matter of charging the limits
of the town and taking in a large
acreage which will nearly double the
assessed valuation of Bonners Ferry,
will probably be acted upon at a
meeting of the town board of trus-
tees tonight.
Some weeks ago G. w. Spoerry
assured the trustees that he would
be willing to have the Eagle Park
addition plated and taken in the
city in order that certain Great
Northern railway property could also
be annexed, providing he was assured
that the town would proceed with
the construction of concrete sidewalks
on Shavelear hill to Eagle Park, the
sidewalks to be paid for by AUDITING
property owners with the exception
of the street crossing and places
where there is no abutting property.
Mr.. Spoerry stated that it had
been estimated that the cost of this
work to the city would not be over
$4,000 and if the city took in the
proposed new addition it would be
double its present amount of taxable
property.
The assessed valuation of the pro-
posed addition would amount to near
ly 100000, it is claimed, and the
town levy on this amount would
be around $4,000 or twice the amount
which the town would be asked to
pay for sidewalk construction this
year and in future years the town
would be able to cut the tax levy
in half or have twice the amount
of money with which to carry on
improvements.
Mr.. Spoerry has had concrete side
walks constructed in Eagle Park adj
dition from the D. w. Parks resi-
dence around the brow of the hill
for 500 feet. This work was COM
pleted last week and was done by
Contractor Parks.
County Surveyor Cave has been
working the past week on a plat
of the proposed new addition. All of
the members of the board of trustees
are favorable to the plan suggested
by Mr.. Spoerry. The proposed new
addition would start on the west
side of Second street in Park addi-
ton and crossing the Great Northecr
railway tracks would intersect with
the west line of the southeast of the
southwest corner of Section 27
township 81, range / west, B. NJ;
thence north across the Spokane In
!
ter corner lying in the Nicholson E
Zimmerman field; thence on the
north side of the Spokane Interna-
tional right of way to the present
city limits. This proposed addition
it will be seen, would take in z
large part CT the main line and side
tracks of both the Great Northern
and Spokane international railways
property which is very valuable, a.
we'll as the improved lots in the
Eagle Park addition. Mayor Henry
states that there is no legal reason
why the addition may not be taker
into the town limits.
Clerk storm states that the depot.
of the Great Northern and Spokane
international railways were taken in
to the town limits in 1908 when al
ordinance was passed taking in tn,
Riverside and Second Riverside ad
ditions. For some reason or othel
these depots have never been subject
ed to town taxes and it is now fig
ured that it may be possible to re
quire the railway companys to pay
back taxes since 1908 which woul,
amount to a considerable sum.