Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1918 — STATE BOARD SAYS JASPER COUNTY IS TOO LOW [ARTICLE]

STATE BOARD SAYS JASPER COUNTY IS TOO LOW

Indianapolis, March, 21, 1918. Mr. G. L. Thornton, / Assessor Jasper County, Rensselaer, Indiana, i Dear Sir: We have your report on personal I property averages. We think you are low on every' item except perhaps the item of cattle and farm implements, and possibly household goods, which is a I little lower than we had expected. We would like for you to raise your assessment on horses, which you report at $67. Dekalb county reports an average of sll7 on horses, Dela-| ware S9O; Fountain $81; Franklin ! $81; Kosciusko S9O; Lake S9B; Put-1 nam SB3; Tipton SB4; Wabash $lO3, and Wayne $92. We give you these > figures so that you may see what you have to work to. In the matter of hogs and sheep, ’ which you have placed at $9 each,j we think the assessment on each of these classes of property should average sls. There is no better property this year than sheep and hogs, and at sls each would only mean that they average about 125 i pounds. We have been counting on a basis of sl6 per hundred, or sl2 ; a hundred net. On hogs, Blackford county reports sl6; Clinton sls; | Delaware sls; Fountain sl7; Hamil-’ ton sl6; Jay sl6; Madison sl3;' Union sl6 and Wayne sl7. On sheep, Hamilton county, Hancock and Lake each report sl4; Delaware sls; Randolph sl3; Shelby • sls, and Union sls. We have hoped the automoblie average this year would be S3OO, i assessed on the schedule You report only $209. Blackford; county reports $292; Clinton $279; Decatur $298; Delaware $300; Fountain $306; Franklin $297; Hamilton $278; Shelby $2Bl and Wabash $3Ol. Kindly get in touch with your assessors, Mr. Thronton, and see if you can not get higher assessments, especially on the classes that we have here indicated are low. We hope your next report will show a different condition. This may not be unlikely. Jasper' is too good a county not to show higher assessments than your report indicates. Very truly yours, STATE BOARD OF TAX COMMISSIONERS.