Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1920 — VALUATION INCREASES [ARTICLE]

VALUATION INCREASES

I PERSONAL PROPERTY OF THE STATE SHOWS GAIN IN NINETY COUNTIES. Abstracts received by the state tax commissioners from the auditors of all the counties in the state show an increase in the valuation of personal property over the' 1919 valuation before the horizontal increases were added by the state board, in every county except two. Clay and Ohio counties show slight decreases. The Jasper county assessment in 1919 was $5,496,830. The 1920 is $6,583,145, and increase of sl,086,315. For the whole state the 1919 valuation was $1,012,545,508, and in 1920, $1,259,159,080, an increase of $246,613,472. These figures do not include the valuation of real estate. ■ Real estate in Indiana was assessed in 1919 for a three year period.