Show BOARD SUGGESTS TRUE ASSESSMENT County Officers Advised to Exercise Exer Exercise cise More Care in Making Up the Rolls INCREASE IN REAL PROPERTY oCI Ovet State Slate lac lEave And AmI Board Recommends Assess ment ly Tile The state board or of Is Ia sending out to the various bords boards of county and assessors In circular form torm the following suggestions recommendations relative to tons the tho annual assessment for general tes no now about to begin for 1910 The board beard desires to work In bar har harmon mon and cooperation with the of tIdal or of the tho various countIes ot of the to time the end that a just antI and equitable equit equitable able assessment shall b be made and that once made I it w sIl not he be necessary for this board to malta malee changes that wi will the labor and expense of a readjustment of tIle tho tax rols rolls Accordingly Ac cordingly we have llave to suggest that lve live livestock stock stoel be as assessed as follows Rne Range sheep per pe head range cattle H 11 per head hone horses at their cash value alue which we think should be higher than last year el graded according to value mich much cows not less than 20 pr per head Ye We renew our suggestions of last year car to the effect that blooded le lestock hive stock be assessed for what I it Is worth Te The board to especially em phaize the tho necessity o of assessing the full ful number of all lve ve stock Accord to the best information obtainable by this board It has been customary to assess tile tho farmer fanner or other smal small home with orO having stock at every Iso he owns but to alow allow tIle the stockman with catte cattle or horses on the range to escape with an assess assessment merit ment of from 2 25 to lo 10 O per cent or of his actual number and the with irom 60 to SO per r cent Tills This is man nn an injustice to the smal owner as wel as to the owner owners of other Inasmuch as classes s or of property acid amI cn tile tho only In the of this boatti Is to Increase or decrease b by classes thus enlarging and perpetuatIng lag the Injustice already alread done we urge urse you Ing OU to see to It that justice is 18 done h by bythe the original assessment or b by tile the coun count t ty banI board of oC equalization We re affirm that it Is a es easy m t tt t a Ci Cime me ae Ut cc toT i nd to tomake tomake make an equitable if IC they only get out ot of the hait habit of allow allowing wi live stock to dictate Ing the owners of lc their own Vc call attention to the tho fact that last year time the valuation placed upon bees varied in different countes from 1 to per er colony colon and recommend mend a uniform valuation or of 3 Swine I varied front from per head In one county count to In Ill another and we a valuation or of 4 and upward Real estate has ery materially In Increased creased In value throughout the tho state durIng tile the past three years ears yet et the schedules for foi assessment remain practically the tise same from year ear t Ia year and the board calLs call attention to the fact that time te burdens of city countS count and state entailed b by reason or of increased In Increased improvements public creased tion the demand for Improved and enlarged educational facilities etc ete can only be met b by a reasonable and legitImate Increase ot of valuations Real estate estat should bear a ajust ajust just share of this increase both as farm and fruit lands and as a city ct property On the face of tite returns or of some of the count auditors to this board tile the column showing money assessed auditors has been lef left blank such however Included money mone under the heading of personal prop arty erh not other enumerated For on and amId uniformity the divi division sion should be made and al all pop prop ety heading should be listed under the proper In conclusion the board suggests to the boards or of county commissIon ens of tile the state tile the advisability of fixing 1 all their dates for sittings as count al boards or of equalization earlier the tue various arlous than June uno 20 so that In ma Ins have time coun which to prepare their abstracts of for this board and furnish at this office not later hater than the same first Monday atlo In ill as required b blaw by bylaw law |