Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1919 — JASPER COUNTY ASSESSMENT IS MUCH HIGHER [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY ASSESSMENT IS MUCH HIGHER

The following table shows the assessments of the land and improvements of Jasper county for the years otflSW.B and 1919: Land and 5 Average Land and Average Improv. 1 Per Atere. Improv. Per Acre. 1918 1919. Barkley ... i... .| 1,040,730 $ 27.33 $ 3,314,750 $87.04 Carpenter 1,574,105 47.94 4,357,210 132.70 Gillam 654,384 27.07 1,827,730 ! 75.59 Hanging Grove . . 540,960 28.43 1,376,080 72.44 Jordan 749,605 31.40 2,091,980 87.63 Kankakee 334,190 20.11 689,840 41.55 Keener .., 543,195 18.03 1,125,200 37.35 Marion 1,545,245 48.40 4,288,430 134.31 Milroy ,7... 291,905 19.25, 805,610 53.12 Newton 714,440 32.82 2,138,240 • 98.10 Remington 83,145 437.60 163,670 860.19 Rensselaer 177,375 584.75 422,440 916.67 Union 902,805 25.38 2,045,150 57.48 Wlalker 566,440 15.17 1,338,870 35.90 Wheatfield 502,790 18.39 42.89 Wheatfield Town. 18,210 75.57 J 1,400 133.78 Total! $10,239,620 $ 28.86 $27,188,760 $ 76.66 Personal! Property 3,653,970 5,496,830 ✓ Lotsand Imprtxv’ts 1,115,305 • Grand Total. .$15,008,895 $35,128,410,. ’ To the grand total! of lands, lots, improvements and personal property there is too 'be added: Railroads $ 4,012,310 Banks a . . ’.*.... . 365,500 Sleeping Car, Telephone, Telegraph and Express companies. . . 152,410 Total valuation of all property in the county $39,659,630 From this amount there .will be (deducted the mortgage exemption, which in 1918 was $519,355, -but will be considerable higher this year as jtfae amount has been raised from a maximum of S7OO to SI,OOO. - The increlase in the value of land arid improvements is more than 26 per cent. The assessments of the land, exclusive of improvements, were in 1918 $25.79 and in 1919 $69.98. It will be noted from the above that the highest valuation of (land arid improvements per atere in the county is in Marion toiwnship, which ns $134.31 per acne. Carpenter is second with an average of $132.70. The lowest valuation is in Walker township, the average in that township being $35 per acre. The assessment of Newton county land averaged $91.69 per atere, with improvements $98.29. •