The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-12
Farm and City Property Valua-
tons Increased .S117,SO6,5O6.
Action Taken by State Tax
Commission in Topeka.
AFFECTS II KANSAS COUNTIES
Increases Range From Two to
FOrty-Nine Per Cent.
Decreases Ordered in Only Tive
Counties of State.
.fBy the Assoclated Prei..l

A total increase of $117,sO6.50e over
the valuation of farm and city prop
erty assessed by seventy-two Kansas
counties has beer ordered by the state
tax commission sitting in annual ses-
sion as the state board of equalization,
according to this complete list of as
sessed valuations in the states los
counties given out by the commission
today.
The increases ordered range from 2
per cent on all acre lands, outside Of
cities and exclusive of improvements,
in Allen county, to 40 per cent in
Mission township, johnson county.
Decreases in Two Counties.
Decreases were ordered in only two
counties-Phillips and Rush. These
two decreased total $1,965,S36. In
Phillips county the commission or
dered a reduction of s per cent or
$1,2S6,145 on the assessment of farm
lands, exclusive of improvements, and
ranges from 2 to 1914 per cent and
totals $679, 191. The assessments orig
inally set in the remaining thirty-one
counties of the state were not changed
by the commission.
List of Increases.
The following list gives the coun-
ties in which increases were ordered
crease in each:
AIlen-Acre lands, outside cities,
exclusive improvements, per cent,
amount $215,194.
Atchison-Acre lands. outside cities,
exclusive improvements, IL per cent,
or $2.129,617.
Barton-Same, 8 per cent or ST.
931.56S.
Bourbon-same. per- cent or
$976.049.
Brown-Same. 10 per cent or $s.-
4S3,724-
Butler-Same. 20 per cent or s5.-
494,587.
Chase-same, Is per cent or So
1858.
Clay-same. 10 per cent or ST.
757,SO2
CIoud-Acre and plated tracts, out
side cities, exclusive improvements 10
per. cent or $1,946.757. and lots and
unplatted lands in cities. exclusive inn
Total decrease Cloud county-$2.O95,-
37S.
Coffey-Acre lands, outside cities.
exclusive improvements. 10 per cent
or $1,266,74S.
Comanche-same, per cent or
$51O.9S4.
Cowley-same. per cent or ST.
369,0e9.
Decatur-Same. IL per cent or
$s5S, $40.
Dickinson-Acre lands and plated
tracts, city lots, all exclusive improve
ments. 10 per cent or $:.5z5,79s.
Doniphan-Same, is per cent or
81, AL, Ss9.
Douglas-Acre lands, rural, exclu- |
sive improvements, 10 per cent or
s1,559,547.
Edwards-same. 10 per cent or
$971.6SS.
Ellsworth-same. per cent or ST.
173.O65.
Finney-Acre lands. rural, exclu-
sive of Improvements per cent in |
Garfield and Sherlock |
total $254,799.
Franklin-Acre lands, rural and city |
lots. all exclusive of improvements, !
10 to II per cent or $1.929,2O5.
Geary-Acre lands, rural and city |
lots. all exclusive improvements, 10 to |
1914 per cent or $1,O43.S53.
Gove-City lots, exclusive of i'm |
provements, 80 per cent or $15,9O1. |
Graham-Acre lands. rural, exclu- |
sive improvements Is per cent or ST.
242,467.
Grant-same. per cent or $751;
Gray-Acre. lands. rural and city
to 16 per cent or $9S2,732.
Greenwood-Same, s to 20 per cent
or $1,5S1.274.
Hamilton-same, IS to 20 per cent
or $424,253.
Harvey-same. to per cent or
81, 4S6,0S1.
Hodgeman-Acre lands, rural, ex-
elusive Improvements, 10 per cent OF
$1,749.339.
Jackson-Same. 10 per cent or ST.
Se2,575.
Jefferson-Acre land, rural and city