The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1919-10-22
WILL DRILL ON WILLIAMS
RANCH WITH STANDARD RIG
Oil Showing ut George Is. Williams
Farm East Of Town Moves Capt.
taiists to Organize Company

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| Developments at the Williams
we'll east of Fallon have come to a
| standstill as a result of the decision
of Mr.. Williams to stop drilling with
the appliances at hand and to aban-
| don the four-ineh hole which had
reached depth of 557 feet in favor
Of a standard oil we'll drilling rig
| which he and others will shortly
have on the ground prepared to go
to a depth of 1000 feet, if necessary
/ Ii is the purpose of Mr.. Williams to
! start the next hole of size of IA
| i1ehes and TO reduce diameter only
s necessity dictates as drilling prog
| aess is made. Thomas Dolf and 9TH
| srs have associated themselves with
| Mr.. Williams and 1t is probable that
1 company will be organized this
week and standard equipment order
| ed.
In the meantime heavy oi
| sludge continues TO issue from the
| wall as water is pumped and there
s no abatement of the auspicious oi
| signs that have been so pronounced
| 1t the Williams well since a depth
of 1S5 feet was encountered.
| Other companies are drilling or
preparing to drill at an early date
and oil development activities take
precedence over every other form Of
andeaVor in this valley at the pres
mt time.
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payers of the State OF Nevada who
! a4iK f44laf loud 4
| complain to the Nevada Tax Commits
| lion of and concerning certai
)rder prom ulgated and made by the
| State Board of Equalization on Oc-
tober l, 1919, and directed to the
| auditors of all counties in the State
| Of Nevada. as follows.
The following changes in the as
sessed valuation of property in your
| county for the year 1919 have beer
| made by the State Board of Equali.
zation, in compliance with sections
5. and 8, Chapter 1T. Statutes of
1917, Said changes in valuation
ire hereby certified to and you are
directed to enter the same on the
1919 assessment roll of your
county:
Privately Owned Lands Increass
ne assessed valuation of all pri-
gately owned lands in your county
/ texeluding railroad iands) eighteen
per cent.
Note-This increase Of eighteen
per cent is to be applied to all pri-
yately owned lands in your county
lfter equalization of the different
classes OF land in Churchill. Doug
as. Lyon and Pershing counties.
THAT by said order aforesaid the
! assessment valuations of the pri-
| yately owned lands was raised by
said State Board of Equalization.
THAT said order is unjust and in
equitable. and said increase in valu-
alton. so ordered, was and is arbi-
trary and made without any investi-
cation of facts and without any
knowledge or judgment of said State
Board of Equalization.
THAT said order was, and is, void
for the reason that the same does
not constitute state equalization
within the powers of said State
Board of Equalization. but on the
contrary. constitutes, and is. an at
tempt of said State Board of Equali-
zation to directly assess the lands
owned by the undersiged tax pay
ers.
THAT SAID order was, and is, a
horizontal raise in the assessed val
uation of the lands of the under
signed taxpayers. and did not, and
does not, constitute equalization;
that all lands were, prior to the maxi
ing and entry OF said order, duly and
/ regularly equalized for the purpose
of state equalization, and all lands of
the same class lying in the respective
counties OF the state were equally
valued. fe.
THAT unless said order OF Octob-
er 1st. aforesaid, be set aside, an
nulled and vacated, the privately
owned lands of the undersigned tax
payers will be assessed out of pro-
portion to and above the actual cash
value of said lands, and out of pro-
portion to and above the percentage
of valuation fixed by the Nevada
Tax Commission for the year in
which the taxes we're levied and the
property assessed.
The undersigned tax payers also
complain of, and concerning, said
order for the additional reason that
said order is unnecessary to equal
iza the assessment of property in
the state SO as to produce an ag-
gregate assessment of all property
within the state sufficient, when the
i tate tax levy is applied thereto, to
i produce the revenues required from
taxation as shown by the budget Of
estimated expenses required to be
filed in detail with the Nevada Tax
/ Commission. and your cOmplainants
further ellege that the aggregate
ssessed valuations of all property in
the State of Nevada viii, without the
inolusion of the raise in assessment
valuations required by said order Of
October 1st. when applied to the
state tax levy for the year 1919 pro-
duee the revenues required from tax
alton as shown by the budget OF es-
timated expenses provided and re-
quired to be filed with the Nevada
Tax Commission.
"The undersigned tax payers also
complain of and concerning a certain
order made and promulgated on or
/ about the first of October, 1919, by
the State Board of Equalization by
which the auditors OF all counties
we're ordered and directed to in
crease the assessed valuation of all
rural county improvements twenty
j per cent upon the ground and for
the reason that said order is void,
unjust, inequitable and arbitrary
upon all grounds and reasons here
eat ant CONTAINED ap1 urpn1