New Ulm review., 1922-07-05
81 CENTS ACRE
| IS AVERAGE TAX
BROWN COUNTY ACRE TAX Is
SIX TIMES. HIGHER THAN J.
20 YEARS AGO.
FARMERS HERE PAY ONLY 20
CENTS ABOVE STATE TAX
3*sss#; 52.-sa ~
AVERAGE.

this year are paying an average tax OF
92 cents an acre on farm lands, or
+ $147.02@ on each quarter section of
land, according to figures compiled for
the State Tax Commission.
This is six tines as high as in 1902
when the average tax per acre in
Brown County was only 16 cents and
almost four times as high as in 1912
when the average tax per acre in this
county was rs cents.
In 1902, Brown County taxes on
farm lands were lower, than in any of
the counties bordering on this county,
with the one exception, Cottonwood,
which at that tine boasted an average
tax per acre of only Is cents. Rem
vile County's tax per acre in 1902 was
the same as Browns, Is cents an acre,
if fra ctions of a cent are left out of the
accounting which had Renville rated
a fraction higher than Brown. Red
wood and Watonwan counties come
next with II cents an acre twenty
years ago. Blue Earth County had
an acre tax of % cents in. 1902 and
Nicollet topped the list of all our
neighbors at that time with an average
tax of "a cents an acre on farm lands.
Brown Lowest in 1912. -
Ten years ago, taxes had increased
considerably, but Brown County's
average was then lower than any of
our neighbors without exception. The
tax paid per acre in this county ten
years ago was 26 cents as compared
to 27 cents in Cottonwood and Rem
vile, 81 in Watonwan, 80 in Redwood
and Nicollet, and Blue Earth topping
the list at 33 cents an acre.
This year, two of our neighbors are
below the Brown County average of
90 cents an acre, Nicollet being the
lowest at 81 cents an acre with Cotton
wood next at 80 cents. Renville is
higher than Brown, having an average
acre tax of "a cents; Redwood is still
higher, being SO cents an acre; Waton-
wan passes the dollar mark with an
average tax per acre of Sill and Blue
Earth is again high with S1.13 an acre.
When Brown County farmers scratch
their heads about the enormous in
crease in taxes during the past twenty
years, they have at least one consola-
tion in the fact that m ost of our neigh
bors are paying still higher taxes.
Brown County's average tax per
acre this year is % cents above the
average for the whole state, which is
70 cents AN acre. Some of the farm
lands in northern Minnesota are
listed at much lower valuation than
the rich lands of Brown County, which
accounts for the difference. Com
pairing with St. Louis County where
the average tax per acre this year is
only Ia cents, the lowest in the state
Roseau County with 29 cents an acre,
Lake and Kittson counties with 81
cents, Cook "a, Beltrami 35 and
Koochiching SO cents an acre, it. is
plainly evident that many counties
must pay much higher than the 90
cents an acre in Brown County to
bring the average for the state up to
10 cents an acre. .%c
Ramsey County is the highest in the
state, where farmers pay an average
tax of S2.15 an acre, or fifteen times
that of the St. Louis County farmer
who pays only IA cents an acre, and
more than twice as much as paid by
the Brown County farmer. The tax
on 160 cares in Ramsey County this
year amounts to $344.15, on the aver
age, as compared to $23.01 on a
quarter section in St. Louis County,
or $147.02 in Brown County. !.
Second Lowest in District.
Cottonwood County has the lowest
tax per acre on farm lands in the
Second Congressional district and
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