Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1917 — Raise Personal Property Five Per Cent. [ARTICLE]

Raise Personal Property Five Per Cent.

The state board of tax commissioners has raised the personal property in this county five per cent over the amount assessed by township assessors of the several townships of the county. The total assessed value of personal property in Jasper county in the year 1916 was $3,017,785. This year’s assessment was some $12,000 under this amount. The 1917 assessment of personal property was $3,005,900. To this amount the state board has added 5 per cent or $150,295, making a total assessed valuation of personal property for 1917 of $3,156,195, an increase over last year of $ 138,415. -—- —. The assessed valuation of the additional improvements in Rensselaer for the past year was $29,900.