White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-09
TAX BOARD
COMPLETES LABORS

The state board OF equalization
completed its labors for this session
Friday and the assessors from tn,
various counties, as well as the mem
bers Of the state tax board, all O.
whom comprise the state board, Were
permitted to leave for their respec.
tive homes after having been con
tinuously in session since August 20,
When all the matter OF additions
and subtractions from the rolls oil
the various counties are taken into
account it is estimated that the total
taxable property throughout the state
on which taxes can hope to be col
lected will amount to approximately
l$192,500,00
The reduction of 100000 granted
by the local board of equalization on
the assessment of the Nevada Con-
solidated Copper Company in White
Pine county was allowed to stand by
the state board, as predicted in the
last issue of the News.
The state boards figures on per-
email taxes which may be collected
and which embraces the bullion tax
are in round figures one million dol
lars below the aggregate first turned
in by all county assessors.
The reductions made by the state
board in all counties was about
$4,000.
The Pullman company, which had
been raised from the figure of $685.
700 last year to s~1,733,740 for this
year, appeared before the board, and
after q thorough examination con-
WINGED the board that it was OPP
Grating less cars through Nevada than
it was taxed for Oh the roll at
the new figures. The representatives
of the company succeeded in getting
a reduction of $636,335, which will
leave them with an increase of $404,-
705 over last year.
During the session Friday former
Supreme Court Justice P. A. McCar-
ran appeared before the board rep
.resenting large taxable interests in
Washoe county where the local
board had made a straight reduc-
ton on the first four classifcations
of land, embracing special, cult
waited, wild hay or meadow or pas
ture of So on each case. Judge Nc
Carran produced George Trosi, a
large land owner of Washoe county,
his principal witness. When he
his examination Assessor
Miles distinguished himself as a
cross examiner when he subjected
the witness to a griiling with telling
effect. Judge McCarran then asked
permission to examine Mr.. Miles and
this was granted. The Judge en-
deavored to ask the White Pine as
about lands over which he had
jurisdiction regarding assessment in
the first instance, and the assessor
replied:
Judge, when the lands in White
Pine county, OF the assessment with
reference to those lands is at issue
or in dispute, l will testify. hut until
then / do not deem in any way called
upon to do So
This retort furnished acnsidera-
BILE amusement for the other mem
bers of the board.
Few changes in the instructions
of the state tax commission to our
ty assessors were made at the ses-
sions. Under arabic lands the val
uations of first-class ones r to be
$50 an acre and UP, instead of $50
and up; second-class. SIS and up,
reduced from $40. Under livestock,
cattle valuations are cut from $25
to $23 a head; bulls, formerly
placed at $50, are left to the discre-
ton of assessors; dairy cow re-
duced from S65 to $50; work horses
1,10O pounds and up, from $40 to
$50; under 100 pounds, from SIS
to $50; saddle horses, formerly $55,
left to assessors; brood mares and
stock mules, formerly $50, left to
assessors: sheep raised from s. to
Sc; hogs, eight months and owe
two to eight months, formerly 81,
left to assessors; bees, IS per stand.
reduced to $3.50.
In last weeks reference to the
Nevada Consolidated Company's val
uation it was said that the company
raised it's valuation 100000, when
it should have read that the county
raised it 1t was printed as it came
to the White Pine News from Car
son City, but before it vas printed
two calls were made at the assess
or's office to verify it, but Deputy
Percy Jackson not being there and
Mr.. Miles being at Carson the in
formation was not obtained, so it
finally was published as it was re-
ceived.
In reality Assessor Miles raised