Show BUSY DAYS IN OFFICE OF COUNTY sales of delinquent property bought by outsiders in boom days grow less activity that has been general in the office 9 county treasurer chambers has apparently subsided but while evidence ot a great amount of work being transacted Is lacking the treasurer and his assistants are really in the midst ot the busiest season of car and from now until november 15 much work will be done the county treasurer collects col lecta all taxes county and city with the exception 0 special city taxes which are collected by the city treasurer general taxes of all descriptions ar paid in office and by the treasurer transferred to the accounts for which they were assessed up until the present week a large force of young ladles has been at v ork preparing the tax notices these have all been made out and mailed and the treasurer ier has begun to receive replies to the notices some people call in person at tho office and pay their taxes while others prefer to use the mails at this time the mail reaches the total 0 fifty or sixty letters day but as the time in which ahr axes must be paid shortens the mall becomes heavier and toward the first of november will equal or more letters a day this is duo 6 the jact that many people especially business men do not pay up until almost the time tor taxes to become delinquent then there re many people of the state io own property in the county some of whom purchased land during the boom days while others are acquired property through the of mortgages of the latter there arc many investment company but ar chambers sas that the number of outside investment companies owning properly in the county and cuy is much less than a few years ago As the alm since the boom days be comes greater the number of sales 0 property for taxes becomes less where from five or six years ago there were to sales of property for taxes each yar y ar there arc now but less than sales this falling off in tho number of sales is due to the sales that have been made from time to time by those who purchased land during tha boom days to residents of the city between november 1 and november 16 the great bulk of the taxes will be paid and those which are not paid by the latter data will become delinquent and the land sold for taxes |