Show A GRATIFYING INCREASE The ligures arrived at by tho State Board of Knualteaficm In its reckonings reckon-ings of the proper valuations to b i put upon the various properties that It bylaw by-law assesses show a very gratifying increase The Hoard makes original assessment of railway and streetcar companies telegraph and telephone companies and the net proceeds or mines On every one of these there Is a marked Increase amounting In tho aggregate to a little over twentyfive per cent The figures In detail arc given elsewhere in this paper The railway and street car companies increased in-creased In value from M7GiV3D to 317fC3Ofi9 tha telegraph and telephone companies from 3072SG to S485S79 the net proceeds ot mines from 5133215 to S73nni2 I this Increase of 1000377 amounting Cl per cent rime increase In telegraph and telephone companies was S177iU3 or close to 5S per cent the 2797630 Increase In the value of the property of the railway and street car companies represents a gain of 19 percent per-cent These figures show in concentrated but modified form the great increase In the wealth of the State that prraant conditions have given The same good agencies are a work throughout the State and will havo an effect upon the county assessment rolls similar to that shown in the figures of the State Board of Equalization The State was never so universally well on and prosperous as it Is now |