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Show Owen 'M. Sanderson, Webor county's new assessor, has made good, with a vengeance, so to speak, as evidenced by the fact, outstanding in his 1917 assessment as-sessment rolls, completed today, that more than a million dollars In the assessment as-sessment of money, solvent credits, judgments, etc., in Ogden city, which previously escaped assessment and taxation, this year will add from $21,-000 $21,-000 to $22,000 to the county's Income, reducing by that much the expense of running tho county and equalizing to that extent the burden of taxation. The Increase will far more than pay all expenses of the assessor's office for the year. ' This raise is not on regular real estate es-tate or improvements, but Is on new business, principally money and solvent sol-vent credits not previously assessed. Last year, for example, the assessment on money and solvent credits was $4,-720. $4,-720. This year It is $667,530. Tho difference dif-ference is $662,810. Other personal property assessments, previously overlooked, over-looked, make up more than the million mil-lion dollars. Some Eloquent Figures. Besides this red-letter discovery of more than a million dollars of personal person-al property not previously taxed, Assessor As-sessor Sanderson has saved the taxpayers tax-payers on office incidentals since he assumed office tho first of tho year, down to date, $902.71. This saving was effected principally principal-ly by having tho field deputies gather all required statistics at the 3ame time they obtained their valuation reports, re-ports, Instead of having a different crow of workers go out and obtain the statistics at a different time. In other words, the assessor consolidated tho work on a unified and co-ordinated plan. Last year, for comparison, the one item of finding out the number of colonies of bees in the county was $136. while the tax on bees last year was only $41 40. The assessment roll for 1917 shows an Increased total assessment of nearly near-ly $1,800,000, principally on city personal per-sonal property. With these exceptions there Is practically no change in last year's assessment Ogden City Assessment. The total valuation of all property assessed In Ogden city is $29,555,577; total value of personal property, $S,-422,562; $S,-422,562; total value of city lots, $11,-521.170, $11,-521.170, farm lands within the city, 5.333 acres, $514,250; total value, $884,-120. $884,-120. Improvements, $8,134,335; improve ments on acreage, DUJ.csyu. Horses and mules, S93 In number, valuo $52,975. Cattle, 569 in number, $24,700. Merchandise and trade fixtures, $3,-399.785; $3,-399.785; machinery, tools, Implements and supplies, $836,540; money, solvent credits, $667,530. Country Assessments. Total Valuation in the coun.try, $9,-274,660; $9,-274,660; total value personal property, $1,625,700; money and solvent credits, $9,370. (Ogden city's assessment on money and solvent credits in 1916 was only $4,720, or $4,650 less than tho same assessment for the country this year.) Machcinery, tools, etc., $380,370; merchandise and trade fixtures (country (coun-try stores), $350,495. Boos, 1605 colonies, $4,735; swine, 1785 hoad, $12,365; cattle. 10.417 head, $358,650; horses and mules, 4272 head, $205,180. Total acreage assessod, 239,743, valuation, val-uation, $5,637,500; lots in the country. $308,530; farm land, $392,295; fruit land, 2058 acres, $258,825; improvements, improve-ments, $1,702,930. Grand Total Assessments. The assessor's grand totals for the city and county combined are: Value of lots, $11,829,700; farm land, acreage, acre-age, 45.209; value, $906,545; 2,376 acres of fruit land, value, $335,310; 55,319 acres grazing land, value, $1,-098,030; $1,-098,030; 142,175 acres other land, value, val-ue, $661,735. Total number of acres, 245,080; total valuation, $6,521,620. Improvements, on lots, $8,359,595; on acreage, $2,071,-060. $2,071,-060. Total value personal property, $10,048,262; total value of all property proper-ty assessed, $38,830,237. Many "Kicks" Heard. While Assessor Sanderson declined to comment on tho many "kicks" which his deputies heard while obtaining ob-taining the records for assessments on money and solvent credits, It became known today that theso "kicks" are many and insistent, with pleas that Buch property was not heretofore assessed. as-sessed. The assessor also declined to 6ingle out for publication the names of theso property owners. His attitude is that he is not concerned particularly In the assessments of last year, or previous pre-vious years, but is determined to square fully his performance with his oath of office, regardless of kicks and threats of contests in the courts. When asked to name tho deputies who obtained tho valuation reports on money and solvent credits, which heretofore escaped taxation, Assessor Sanderson laughed and replied: "I did most of the work myself." nn |