Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-01-25
INCREASED VALUATION
Real Estate and Personal Property
Values in Fulton County in 1917
Over a Million Dollars More Than
in 1916-Taxpayers Make Good As
SCISSORS - Live Stock, Investments,
and Credits in the Country.

In 1917, for the first time in Ohio,
the responsibility of assessing the
valuation of taxable property was
placed directly upon the taxpayers
themselves, and the result, according
to the tax duplicate for 1917, was
nearly two million dollars more re-
turned for taxation. Either there was
a wonderful increase in the amount
and valuation of taxable property, or
the taxpayers do more thorough work
when it comes to assessing their own
property than the assessors.
The total tax valuation in 1916 was
$40,0O0,000, and that marked a new
era in the county auditors office. 1t
was the largest valuation ever shown
on Fulton's tax duplicate and the
county took rank as forty million
dollar county. But the tax duplicate
for 1917 shows that the county, not
content to stay in the forty million
mark, has taken a big stride toward
the fifty million goal; the total val
uation for 1917 being SAL ,903, ,430-
close on to two millions increase over
1916. This totsI is divided between
real estate, which is valued at $780,
701, ,920; and personal property, val
ued at 5,201, $40.
There was an increase in the num-
Der of horses owned in the county OF
493. In 1916 there were 10,420
horses in the county. In 1917 there
were 1898 horses, valued at 81 1,068,-
355.
Cattle also show a slight increase
7. ~
1917, there were 23,113 head, valued
at S1,066,920. There is still room
for growth along this line. Fulton
small in area as it is, is still capa-
bic of supporting proitably a much
| larger number.
There were 113 mules in the
county in 1917, as against LOT in
1916; the value Of the 113 was given
as $4,000.
Sheep dropped from 6,286 in 1910
to 6,2O8 in 1917, with a valuation OF
$49,810; and this at a time when the
demand for wool is without precedent
Hogs show a slight increase ovel
1916, the figures being 20,674 in 1915
and 24,638 in 1917, with valuation
of $279,605. But this is away below
the mark which this county shoulC
maintain in war time. Pork is a ne
cessity, not luxury, nowadays; anC
furthermore, pork, on account of it!
adaptability to packing and shipping
has become in point of fact mum
, ton of war-soldiers must be fed il
order that they may carry on thei
mission and win this war-half
| I'll nd
bring this conflict to a speedy close
1t isn't a question for the patriot
. farmer as to whether he can max
more money or easier money by sell
ing his corn instead of feeding it t.
hogs; it is a matter of doing his pa
triotic duty by producing that whicl
his government needs in this emer
: gency and which it is possible TO
him to produce.
The listed value of automobile
!, and all other vehicles in the count
, in 1917 was $647, ,160. Raw mate
rials and manufactured articles a
listed by manufacturers within tn
county were valued at $240, ,260. TIL
amount invested in stocks and bond
: was PAT, ,975; of this, $2,895 was nor
taxable. The value of all credits, al
ter deducting debts, was $1,892,27I
: This is a brief outline of the ms
\ : terial and financial status of ou
county during the first year of tn
greatest war into which the Unite
q States, or as a matter of fact, an
other country, has ever entered.
This war will make itself felt MOI
= and more as time progresses; tn
y county will be called upon to give M
= = only her young men, but her trea
> ure and the best and most that ht
! soil and her herds can produce; tt
year 1918 will very probably
u u marked not by what Fulton count
. gets in the matters of increased va
a uatio11s, but by what she gives
maintain these principles of goverl
ment which makes prosperity for tt
mass of citizens possible.