The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1919-09-05
WOULD INCREASE
LAND VALUATIONS
TO REDUCE . Levy |.||''| Y
Increase Would Put Farm LANDS
Higher Than the Railroad8
Property E3:s

Bismarck. N. D. AS a means8of iu-
creasing the assessed valuation of
North Dakota's taxable PROPERTY to re-
duce the mill levy, and to thus effect
paper saving to which the aaninis-
tration may point with priday Tax
Commissioner George F. WaIlase yes
terday served on tax supervissTs and
county auditors in conferences here
notice that he would ask tha@state
board of equalization to booss the
county boards figures on FARM lands
all the way from 10 to Is peES. cent.
Cass, Grand Forks, Pembina, Trail,
Walsh and Richland will be the only
counties to escape horizontal in
crease in the assessment of farm lands
if Mr.. Wallace has his way.
The average assessed valuations of
farm lands as returned by the#counr-
ty boards and the percentageaof IN
crease which Commissioners. Wallace
suggests are as follows: :~>
Adams, s10.1O, Is per cent; Barnes,
1872 "a, 10 per cent; Benson, 1871 > 81
Is per cent; Billings, $685., As5 per
cent; Bottineau, $40. 40, 20 pei cent;
Bowman, s12 90; Is per cent; Burke,
SASS, 20 per cent; Burleigh s14. ~.
20 per cent; Cass, SCOTS, nnna Cav
alier, s27. .15, 10 per cent. Dickey,
s35 .16, Is per cent: Divide. 9s15S1. 20
per cent; Dunn, $50 40 25.:peT cent;
Eddy, $2s .S5, Is per cent; Emmons,
SIS rs, 20 per cent; Foster, 1920, Is
per cent; Golden Valley, sl0:S7, Is
per cent; Grand Forks, ss1sRa none,
Grant, $15.s2, Is per celt: Eriggs,
$50 90, 10 per cent; Hettinger, $50 As
Is per cent; Kidder, SIT .9Ii5 per
cent; LaMoure, $s3.O3, Is Deg cent,
Logan, s1Ss 80 15sptsr ssasss;,
SIS 41, 20 per cent; McIntosh: s1S:s1i
Is per cent; Mckenzie, $6.s1, 20 per
cent; Mclean, SIS .49, 20 per cent;
Mercer, $40. .18, Is per cent; Morton,
SIS so, Is per cent; Mountrail, So. 80,
20 per cent; Nelson, $30.37, 10 per
cent; Oliver; $13.66, Is per cent
Pembina, $50 IA, none; Pierce, SIS. .73,
Is per cent; Ramsey, s3O.32 10 per
cent; Ransom, s34.O1, 10 per cent;
Richland, $44 20, none Rolette, s21.S
is per cent; Sargent, s21.0S, 10 per
cent; Sheridan, s19.02,. 20 per
cent; Sioux, Sc 80, rs per cent; Slope,
SO. .43, 25 per cent; Stark, $15.75, rs
per cent; Steele, $39 .SS, 10 per cent;
Stutsman, $21 10, Is per cent; Town
er, So. AZ, Is Sper cent; Traill, $23 IT,
none; Walsh. s32::7a,. none; Ward,
s14xe4,, 20. PEE gent; Wells, s27 .4s, Is
per cent, Williams, $12 -S6v 20 per GENT.
Auditors Make Protest
Auditors and supervisors in the
counties where Wallace proposes a
strong boost in the assessed vaiua-
ton of farm lands are making stren-
uous protests. They contend that in
the first place the tax supervisors,
county auditors and county boards
of equalization did their work con-
scientiously and that they are in
better position than Mr.. Wallace is
to know the actual and true value OF
farm lands in their respective COM
munities. They seem inclined to CON
slider Mr.. Wallace's arbitrary proposal
an insult. ~
furthermore they point to the fact
that the assessed valuation of raj!
ways is already fixed, at about 300 per
cent over last years values, and that
the assessment Of farm lands as re:
turned by the county boards OF equal
ization already .r is relatively higher
than that of the railways and other
property in the state. A further i'll
crease in farm land valuations and "a
decrease in the mill levy will result
il imposing a huge additional burden
UPON the farmers, they contend, while
the railways. will be relieved to JUST
this extent of their share Of the tax
burden. r.. j. E. =.
/ @ { 15s.I Farmer is Penaiized ~ %5s: $z I
5.==tt'I cannot understand said .,:' one e
slope county auditor today, why ls .Mr. i:
Wallace, appointed BY Governor eIr1a Fra Fra
zier and presumably q, member of IA. "a
:farme admins ration, should seek &Ia' 70.
;penalize the farmer BY incr creasing his l
tax burden, or by educ;ng the rail: raj i:
ways taxation at the expense of the the 4
farmer NIr Wall llace's plan Of .reduc- Cd l.l':
ing ing the mill levy from four to three
and Of boosting the farner ssessed Ne
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