Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1919 — ASSESSMENTS INCREASED OVER HALF A BILLION [ARTICLE]

ASSESSMENTS INCREASED OVER HALF A BILLION

The state board of tax commissioners has increased to an amount of $520,998,768 the Indiana property of the railroad, _ interurban, telephone, telegraph, express, sleeping car, pipeline and transportation companies. These properties were assessed in 1918 at a total of $295,004,757. This year the board assessed them at $816,003,525. The board increased the assessment of the Jasper County Telephone company from $24,986 to $48,360 and the Newton ant Jasper Counties Telephone company from SIO,BOO to $24,600.