The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-28
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costs had gone up. Cost of coal had
gone up about a hundred per cent
and labor costs for operating had
gone up s. per cent.
The board decided to put the as
sessment back at $4,000 for furniture
but to leave it where it stood as to
buildings. In this they did not seem
to follow the principle spoken of be-
fore by Mr. Malcolm, that perhaps
the owner was entitled to the ad-
vantage IF he built when materials
were cheaper. After the order was
made, Chairman Bills asked the re-
porter if he did not think the de-
cision was about right, and he re-
piled that he did, for the reason
that the cost of the buildings as CIV
en- out at the time of erection was
vastly more than this assessment on
SO per cent basis would indicate.
Asked what that cost was he replied
that he would not venture state
ment without examining the files of
the newspaper, as he might be
wrong.
The Canning Factory
Mr.. Anderson asked for reduc-
ton in behalf of the Blackfoot City
bank on the canning factory and
contents. People always smile or
litter when the canning factory is
mentioned, and they did in this in
stance. He went on to say that the
bank had been obliged to foreclose
a mortgage of $4,000, and the costs
were raising it to about $4,000 or
$500, and they would very gladly
turn it over to anyone who would
make them whole on it. The prop
erty was assessed at $1,000 divided
this way: land, $780,. improve
ments, 5000, and machinery, $4,000.
That makes total of $4,000, so there
was a mistake of 500 somewhere
in the talk.
Take Back Your Gold
p Mr.. Anderson remarked that there
is no visible income from the prop
erty. He had thought once that
there was, for he rented the grass
in the enclosure for IS and got the
money; but the stock Immediately
went to tramping down Mr.. Doud's
ditch where it is built up high by
the roadside, and he turned the stock
out to save his dikes Then he, An
derson, had to dig up that S. of in
come and give it back to the man
who did not get the pasturage.
The board asked if there had not
been some berries canned there at
one time in the long ago and if there
had not been some fish canned there
during the war 1t was admitted that
some fish, some clubs and perhaps
many suckers had been taken in at
the cannery, and after some laughing
the board ordered that the assess
ment be reduced, we understood
them to say, the amount of the
machinery.
Dry Wet Lands
w. ~. AliGu, dppCdl lA6 AoA W. "a
Lee, said there was piece Of land
in the country below Sterling that
was susceptible of irrigation but
there was no water for it, and it was
not being farmed. Water can be
bought for it, but has not been
bought yet. 1t is assessed as irri-
gated land, but it has no correspond
ing income, nor was it right to CLASH
fy it permanently as dry farm land
because it can be brought under ir-
rigation. 1t has been assessed in
time gone by at $2250, and now
it was jumped to $500. The mat
ter had all been threshed over once
before about two years ago and the
amount agreed upon, and 1t would
be satisfactory to Mr.. Lee II they
nut it back at the figures formerly
agreed upon. 1t was in section "a,
4 south, 81 east Then there was
another tract in section 10, a south,