Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-02
JEFFERSON N0 PAY TOTAL E.> j.N
 OF S454,79l.4lI County Clerk Nichol Files Abstract of Tax Books of
 the County.
ASSESSED VALUES
 ARE $16,506, ,660
County General Tax Produces $SO,3S4; District School, $101,1 ,117, and Gener- al Road $49,52l--City of Pine Bluff
 Due to Receive $4O,651.

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 Taxes aggregating $454, ,791.41 are to be paid by property owners of Jeffer- son county for the year 1916, accord ing to the abstract of the tax books prepared yesterday by County Clerk c. M. Nichol and turned over to Sher- if and Tax Collector R. H. Williams. The extension of the taxes, which means the charging of each separate tax to the different parcels of real estate, and the personal property, owned in the county, is not an easy task MT. Nichol worked overtime to get the tax books ready for the col lector's force, which yesterday began the collection of taxes for last year.
 The taI es are extended on valua- lions submitted by Assessor Fred Fucker, and passed by the equaliza- tion board, the county clerks duty being to place against the property the levies chargeable against it.
 The abstract prepared by Mr. Nichol shows that 559,602.99 acres of country land were assessed for $4,02S,7S0, and city property assessed for $a,912.23O, making tho total assessed valuations Of real estate $S,941 ,010. The value of personal property, in which is in- cIuded railroad, telegraph and tele- phone lines, is $7,565,650, making the total valuation of property for pun poses of taxation $16,506,660.
 12,997 Liable for Poll Tax.
 There are 12,997 persons in the county liable for the poll tax. 4,25S of these being white and S,739 colored.
 The figures in the abstract are in teresting. For instance, there are 3,995 horses, valued at $169,370; 7O45 mules and asses, valued at $42S,l56; S666 cattle. valued at $106,112; 1,0oS sheep and goats, valued at $1,O72; G. G27 hogs, valued at $14,736; 3,67S pleasure carriages and wagons (in- cluding automobiles), valued at Sl67,- 1S5. There are owned in the county. according to the assessment rolls, 563 watches, valued at $15,665, and 657 pianos, valued lat S3,710.
 Tlle value oY all goods and mer-8 chandise is $73S.336; of materials and manufactured articles, $259,190; of moneys and credits, including book accounts, $3S3,69O; of bonds, stocks and such securities, $34,970. The value of property as banker, broker or stock jobber," is put at s623,54S, and the value of "all other articles of personal property" is placed at $4,- ,579,915.
 Taxes Extended.
 rY,.,Jo.. @Io low, Crunfxy C1ny.ly NjchO1 has extended the property taxes as fol- lows:
 Poll tax at $1 cach--------$ 12,997.Oo State tax for general pur-
 poses at rate of PA mills S7139.9S State school tax, at rate of 3 mills -------- 49,519.9s State tax to pay pensions at
 the rate of 3 mills -- 33,o13.S2 State capitol fund, at rate of Is mill ---- $2 ,063.33 S,666 cattle at 5c--- 493.30 2,496.63 County Tax.
 County general ------------S SO,394.ls Railroad interest and bond 4,043.S4 Road ----.---- 49,521.7S |nistrict school -------+-- 101,117,05 |City of Pine Bluff $40,654.25 City of Humphrey 14610 40,Seo,39 sDrainage districts -------- 44,063.2ls s*Levee districts --------- 7,767.97 *ssSpecial road districts 4,92S.12 Total amount of taxes $454,791.41 *Drainage taxes, $44,063,21, distrib- uted as follows:
 Waterloo Drainage district $26.329.Sl Drainage district No. 2--~,- 2,53ehl Drainage district No. St---- 5,544Si Drainage district No. 4----s- 1,465.72 Drainage district No. 5--- 2,523,l7 I Upper Grassy Drainage dis SOILS Kirsh Lake Drainage dis.---- $40 Grady Drainage district ---- S97.42 Bradley Slough Drainage dis. 1,165.63 Five Forks Drainage district 2.773.07 $44,o6321
 s#Leyee taxes distributed as fol- lows.
 I,eyee district No. 44.21 Ievee district No. a-4E--- 1 2a3.54 Levee district No. 2-4------- 7'l7O.22
 s77s7.o7
 s*sspecial road districts, s4,s2s.12, as follows:
 Road Improvement district
 No. 10 -.-----------------$2.55S.0o
 No. 1s ---------------- 1,s17.7s
 No. 1s -- 747.s6
 
 $4y23.1a l The addenda appended to the ab- stract, appearing in the foregoing. are not provided for in the abstract blanks, but County Clerk Nichol made copies showing how the drainage, le- wee and road taxes are to be appor- jtioned, knowing that this information l will be appreciated by the property i owners and others interested Six men are under arrest as a con