Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1899 — Unequal Assessments. [ARTICLE]

Unequal Assessments.

The methods of the assessors in assessing real estate in Marion township and Rensselaer are made painfully apparent by one example. There is some land lying against the north corporation line on the west side of the gravel road which has been sold for not less than SIOO per acre, and the nearest parcel of five acres is held at $1,500, or S3OO per acre. This land is assessed at S3O per acre for taxation! Just across this imaginary line lays some vacant lots overgrown with high weeds. They, or most of them, belong to« David H. Yeoman. They are assessed at S2OO per acre, or six and two-thirds as much as land belonging to one of the court house ring. No one will dispute the proposition that Mr. Yeoman’s lands are not assessed any too high. Granting this proposition, what must be said of the assessment of the court house ring member’s real estate? xx