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Show IDAHO ASSESSMENT EXCEEDS $400,000,000 Boise. Sept. 1 The state board of equalization has placed the general tax levy of Idaho for 1913 at two and one-tenth mills, raising $9(ii.umhi as against $720,282. the sum fixed by the board in 1912; the general inter est and sinking levy at two-tenths of a mill, Identically the same as tho last board, and the public building endowment fund at one and one-half tenths of a mill fixed by the 191.' board. The general Interest and sinking sink-ing fund levy fixed by the board thi year and equalized among counties reaches a grand total of $80,109, compared com-pared to $201,009 raised by the lew In 1912. while the public building en dowment levy this year raises $60,176, as compared to $83,753, the total raised by the former board last year Ada county alone will raise one-ninth of the general tax levy, ore-tnth of the general Interest and sinking fund levy and one tenth of the public building build-ing and endowment tax. The total assessed valuation of the state was found to be $398,562,684. ad ded to which will be $20,000,000 to be reported In by the subsequent assessment assess-ment rolls, making the grand total about equal to that found by the 1912 board, or $418,780,394 The total as se-ssod valuatton of propert reported by counties after equalization was found to be $304,011,184, total valua tlon of railway lines, $86,087,100. total valuation of telegraph linen. $1,237,-626, $1,237,-626, total valuation of telephone lines. $1,485,323; total valuation of Pull man an. I private Car companies. $4T.7.-LS8; $4T.7.-LS8; total valuation of transmission lines, 16,248401, and the total valua tlon of personal property report. i bj the rountles to the board, $314, :.' ! '; i The board found the valuation of the transmission linen nf the Idaho Ucht Power company, one of the lartesi holding eompanles In this state, to he :" 0 i nri tho Idaho Railway Light k Power ornpnnv io he $300,000. oo |