The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-17


ts $1,000
Amount of taxes for 1920 sS6.27
Plumbers Escaping Taxation
There are four plumbing estab-
lishments in Blackfoot and only two
of them are assessed. The Black
foot Plumbing company at No. 40
West Bridge street operated by
Sedgewick & Champion, and the
Grove City Plumbing company at No.
so West Pacific street, operated by
Barrett and Johnson, the one located
where the assessor passes 1t every
time he goes to the post office, and
the other having had a sign out and
an office open for many years, and
neither of them is assessed at all.
Here are two that the assessor finds
and levies against:
Boyle and Glassburn
Merchandise 500
Amount of taxes for 1920 1856
Clark Plumbing Company
Merchandise $500
Amount of taxes for 1920 ..$21.51
There are seven printing houses in
Bingham county and only two of
them paid any taxes for 1920; only
two of them paid any taxes for 1919.
Only one of them paid any taxes for
1918: only two of them paid taxes
for 1917 only one of them paid any
tax for 1915; only two of them paid
any tax in the year 1915; that was
Mr.. Malcom's first year as assessor.
He has been assessor for six years
now and the best he has done at as
sessing the printing houses was to
get three out of seven in the last two
years and only two of them paid. The
third is delinquent for both years
and up to few days ago, none of
it had been, paid altho this paper
called attention to it in the report
of auditor, G. E. Moon about a month
ago. 0n=, ar
Who the Printers Are
In explaining just who and where
these printers are we take them &C
cording to the age in business; the
number of years they have had Of
fees open for business. The Jones
printing office has been conducting
a printing business in Blackfoot since
1887, lacking just little of being
thirty-four years. For about thirteen
years it published a newspaper and
since that it has been operating as
a commercial printing house and
Assessor Malcolm has evidently not |
vet found out that it is in business.
1t does some of the county printing
does good work. Since Mr.. Malcolm |
has been in office it does not seem
to have paid any taxes. A thoro |
search of the records fails to disclose
it on the assessors roll or to show
that any money has been turned into
the treasury by it.
The next oldest paper is The Idaho
Republican, established in 1904 and
it has paid taxes every year since.
The next printing house to be
opened was the Blackfoot Optimist,
established in 1907 and the records
do not show that it was assessed in
1915, 1915 or 1918. 1t was as
sessed in 1917, 1919 and 1920.
The Hayes Print Shop was estab-
[ished something like ten years ago
and 1t was assessed in 1915, but the
records do not show that it has been
assessed nor paid cent of taxes
since that. For five years it has been
overlooked by the assessor as If it
lid not exist altho the Hayes Print
ng company does a great deal of
printing for the county and some for
he assessor. n
The Mcvicar Printing company
began operations number of years
lgo, but was not assessed in 1856
IL nor 18. It does some of the
county printing and was assessed in
-919 and 1920, but neither account
recount has been paid. This is the
printing house referred to in Audi
or Moons report month ago,
axed $44.65 for the year 1919 and
n the year 1920 it was taxed under
he name of The Evening Bulletin
n the sum of $21.57, neither Of
which had been paid up to the time
fr. Moon made his report to the
commissioners and he called atten-
ion to the fact that the office was
till open and doing business, that it
7ss classified as personal assessment
nd that personal assessment should