Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-03
Detailed Report ShOwing
Value of Anthracite
Gipen Commissioners
COUNTY OFFICIALS PLACING
NEW ESTIMATES ON BOOKS
Operators Will Be Given Chance to Go
Over Figures For Court Contest That
Is Certain to Follow Big Boost

Official figures placing the total
value of all unmined coal in Dau-
phin county at $117s499,5S6 were
submitted to the Board of County
Commissioners to-day by T. Ellis
worth Davies, of Scranton, the min
ing expert, who has completed, with
his assistants, complete survey Of
all coal fields in this county.
Mr.. Davies and an assistant, to
cether with county officials, began
placing these valuations in the as
sessments books for the various
townships in which coal land is To-
Gated, according to the size, location
of tract and extent of the unmined
coal beneath the surface.
The report of the Commissioners
gives the surface area of the land
the coal ieId extent, location of the
tract and /. >Yalue of the coal.
Townsn y Valuations
According to townships these oth-
cial figures were submitted:
No of Total Value
Townships TT rs of Coal
WI IluIAt L ei-NAplA -
East Hanover 13.75!.6OO
Rush ........ Ii S,O03, 400
Wiconisco ...... - l'se.' .'V1o
Williams ....... ~ as eiVo-
Lykens ......... Z'IoV'Soe
Totals ........ 81 $l17,499,536
Under the present system of as
sessments the value of the unmined
coal and the value of the surface
land have been included and when
the coal values are placed in the
books during the afternoon the val
uation of the surface acreage will
he added as before. At present coal
fields in the county are assessed at
approximately $500, 0O0. so that the
increase in the valuation assessed
against the coal companieS will be
more than $117,0O0.000.
Lebanon Has Big Deposits
In Middle Paxton. East Hanover
and Rush townships the Philadel-
phia and Reading Coal and Iron
company owns the coal lands. while
in the other three townships, Wico-
nisco. Williams and Lykens, the
Hanna Galleries Company holds the
title
Mr.. Davies explained as the work
of copying the valuations tf the land
l4lo lut bOOhS DeSdn, tilGl dllOW-
ance has been made for the mining
of 33,500,0O0 tons of coal for which
deductions have been made in the
value of the coal fields at the pres
cnt time. Tomorrow Mr.. Davies
will go to Lebanon to make a report
on the value of the coal in that
county which, at present, is assessed
at SSS,000, but which it is said may
be even greater in value than Dau-
phin's fields because of larger de-
posits.
Experts to Testify
Associated with Mr.. Davies as
one of his assistants is w. L. Sekol.
formerly assistant chief mining en-
Eineer of the coal department of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern Railroad Company. operating
coal mines in the Scranton district.
Mr.. Davies said that Mr.. Sekol and
other able and experienced en-
gineers. will testify in Pottsville.
Harrisburg and other county seats
when the commissioners start their
legal fight 10 eqaulize the values of
coal deposits in this county.
More detailed information about
the coal deposits in this county.
amount of unmined coal and other
similar data will be submitted dur
ing the next few days to the County
missioners. AS soon as the val
nations have been placed on record
The companies owning the lands will
he notified of the assessment and will
have their opportunity then to an
neal. after which it is Anticipated
the case will be submitted to the