Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-27
COUNTY LEVES
ARE COMPLETED
County Assessment for Com
ing Fiscal Year is Five
and Five-Tenth Mills.

The completion of the list OF county
township and school district levies
was announced yesterday ut the of
flee of Lewis Cline, county clerk. The
state levy for the coming fiscal year
is 2.5 mills and that OF the county Is
5.5.
The county levy is divided between
four mills for general funds which go
to the maintenance of the county Of
fees; ct mills for separate schools;
.03 for tick eradication work. county
sinking fund of As: widows pension
L, and .25 mills for the county fair
Entails Small Burden.
The fact that 1t was necessary to
levy only AS mills for the sinking
fund shows, according to sponsors Of
the proposed bond issue of $500. 900
for road improvement work, that such
issue will not entail much burden on
the county The present bonded in
dcbtedness of the county proper Is
little more than 100000.
The list shows that the city Of
Tulsa. which has a total valuation Of
s3S. .53S.946, will pay six mills general
tax and ga mills sinking fund. other
general levies and sinking fund levies
for the cities and towns of the county
are as follows: Broken Arrow, 4 and
16; BiXby. 4 and II: jerks. mills;
Owasso, 3 and 3: Red Fork and
34.4; Sperry, mills: Skiatook. 4 and
24.6 and Sand Springs 10 and 3.3.
Each of the twelve townships OF the
county made a general levy OF Is
mills. BiXbv Dawson. Glrnnpool,
jerks townships levied ,5 mill for
dragging roads; Red Fork aud We
u gixtrn nulN NtY..- inI nil ,.rnl 10
the others levied 1.5 mills for the
drogging work. Sinking fund levies
were necessary in three townships:
Fry, 4 mill Red Fork, / mill and
Wekiwa, 2 mill.
In making up the school district
levies. district is found to need the
greatest levy. 1t was placed at IL
mills for general purposes and 80
mills for the sinking fund. other high
school district levies were No. 7. II s
mills for general purposes and "A for
sinking fund Joint District No. I,
8 mills; District II. ss mills for gen
eral purposes and IA mills sinking
fund; District 22, 81 general levy
and "a sinking fund; District 2S. SIS
general purposes and SO sinking fund
District A.. 10 mills general levy and
IL sinking fund.
No Levy Necessary.
Two districts found It unnecessary
to make any levies, as the money COM
ing from gross pro duction tax, mon
les derived from the taxation OF rail
ways within the districts are adequate
for the maintenance of the schools.
District No. 3, one of the two. enters
its third year without a school levy.
District "a is the other.
The valuations of the cities. towns
and townships given in the list are
rs follows:
Tulsa city, sSs,533,94s, divided be-
tween $s,340,s94 personal property:
real estate, s26.692,O60; public SER
vice SSG,2S0: Broken Arrow s716.23O;
Bixby, s337,562; Jenks, s2O1.S54:
Owasso, s163,599; Red Fork, s104,SS3:
Sperry. s75.027: Skiatook. $312,201;
Sand Springs, s1.027,S1G.
The township valuations are as fol-
lows: Bixby, s2,437,423; Boles. s74s,-
lis: Dawson, s4,162.751: Fry, 1885,
444: Glennpool s7222,013; Jenks,
s1G02,9SG; Lynn Lane, s2.916.161:
Owasso. s1,654,757: Red Fork. s7,09S.-
4sa: Skiatook s734,0s3: Wckiwa,
$3,062,371; Willow Springs, 1898, ,095.