Show tremendous WHOPPERS WE ARR ABB presenting a very full report of the inquiry into the conduct of receiver dyer and his counsel peters and williams before examiner harkness for reasons that will be apparent it will be found to be very interesting reading the first instalment installment of the report appeared february 4 the morning session was devoted to hearing the testimony oily of experts in the valuation of real estate A perusal of the evidence will convince many reasonable people th that at somer some of the witnesses are more expert in other directions than in estimating teal real values they would perhaps make efficient members of a mazerac club being ibeling specializes specialises in the matter of economizing facts in some instances a disposition in that direction bordelin bor bordering derin g on the miserly was evinced that any individual belonging to that immaculate class so frequently designated in some of our local journals as prominent real estate men should display so great an inclination to refrain from the use of facts in combination with his figures is much to be regretted tt ff this thing goeson goes on in the direction mi it has taken real estate dealers will have to come down from the exalted pinnacle upon which they have been placed by those who have been endeavoring to make them believe there was nobody else in this part of the country in this respect the picture is not all black mr wickersham made what appeared to be an honest aud and truthful statement true he was yesterday to an all appearance a small MAH minority among his class clam but one man and the truth come pretty near being equal to very large numerical odds in this instance the gentleman named can comfort himself with the assurance that his statement regarding the jump in the price of real property from what it was in 1887 to its market value is in july 1888 is and must be believed by the community to be nearer the mark than the estimates of the other witnesses who testified to the same point if there was anything incorrect in mr Wicker shams statement it was in the direction of un um der estimating the jump inthe in the comparative para tive values of realty the statements made by dimand those of the other witnesses did not hang together probably because he did not agree to make it so if as some of the gentlemanly real estate men stated values of reality I 1 increased iner eased only from 15 to 20 per cent from 1887 to July 1888 18 being as high then as at any time e since then the tax assessor is a misguided villain levies ranging all the way from a moderate increase up to about double what they were previously sly the facts are easily obtainable take the he transactions in real estate during 1887 up to the close of that year learn at what prices property was sold and find and out what tho tb same reality would have brought in and after july 1888 if this is done that 16 15 to 20 per cent will as is well and notoriously known take a leap that would exhibit the process of economizing the truth in its real colors but we presume it is sufficiently understood now by those who have eyes to see there is one comfort about some things in which the public is interested when men for a purpose make conspicuously inexact statements the averments aver ments are at once repudiated ted information in possession of the people generally causes them to decline to accept such representations as true even if they were completely euve enveloped loped in wt salt to say nothing about taking them associated with a few saline granules |