| Show c BANKERS ARE FIGURING Still I Claim cIti I It In I n ruins hg AcM I The bankers of the lIA city comprising the Salt Bait Ialo III o clearing hou house iou have ha rot not ng lix 18 yet vet ct held hold a meeting to consider the question of or the now tax ta assess assessments ments but hul one oit Oll will vill bo he called by h President dint dent d nt Button Hurton In tho the Immediate fu tn lure tur In lit th nearly every vory hank bank In i the tho city Is on in tn theor theorizing izing as M to 10 how itea the board of at equalization tion at nt Its conclusion In each Individual lual case cas One banker er said to 1 tho Ito CWI today livery Ee bunk bun Ic mude a It return to 10 tho hi assessor of ot Its ita capital surplus and undivided profits and anut the tho a cosor el ol decided that actual cash values should bo ho 10 assessed on that total minus of course tho the assess assessment SS ment lUent of or any nn real rent estate owned This ibis vui so radical nn tIn Increase lacres over oer prowl prel previous ous uns U yeats 1111 figures especially when nhon compared com with the tho way mercantile c os ca tUn and real lent estate are as that the banks protested As AsU n U 1 result of their protest the tho board hJ of equalization made reductions nil all along aluig am the line 1111 varying front from 10 11 to 13 3 13 11 Joel Id i r cent The Tho query l ix Is wiy w y wax was not the rate or of reduction made uniform Unea Urle the board disbelieved the state moats of ot some of ot the banks 1 as an to lO theIr capital surplus and undivided It ft IB la Impossible to understand tand the motive for Cor its action A News Interview Interviewed ed te commissioner Co arid nud Assessor SOr Blown this titis morning ns as to lo what rulo rule bad been heen adopt d In 11 n tile the de lr deductions but both gentlemen declined to offer any an explanation t merely say sayIng II log Ing that the had considered each ench bank on Us III merits merlL and acted ac no accordingly cordingly Tito Tue gentlemen would not flat nay n so 50 but through u h santo somo other oilier sources It WaR wan Intimated that In Using the th Individual reductions the tile hoard board had hall looked Into IntI tho ch question t f tho the valna Ito of or the stocks or of the thu thoV V houses and It WItH waH also Intimated In that they the hod hul been hy h data ln of ot n a more or less confidential nature gathered on tho tilo outside In giving the list of cit tho this banking houses whoso ment was wn changed rem lam last year oAr Clr yesterdays Newt New In III omitted tho the brink buni of ot ilc Mc Ic Cornick I Co whose hol e assessment 0 sm was Increased from runt 1 HOO to |
