Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1907 — JASPER COUNTY LAND VALUATION RAISED FIVE PER CENT. [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY LAND VALUATION RAISED FIVE PER CENT.

The state tax board raised the real estate valuations in this county five per cent. Benton county was raised 7 per cent, Lake 10 per cent, and White 3 per cent. Newton was reduced 3 per cent and Pulaski 5 per cent. The average valuation of lands and improvements in Jasper and adjoining oounties per acre now is: Jasper.... 119.33 Benton 54.97 Lake 30.85 Newton 29.33 Pulaski 14.82 Starke 13-25 White 26.54 Eentland is the only town in this immediate vicinty whose valuation was changed by the state board, and it and Hammond waß increased 10 per cent. Outside of the Marion county assessment of 169.18 an acre, the assessment of the Benton county land is the highest, $54 97, the only other one that averaged higher than SSO an acre. Crawford county was the lowest, $4.98; Perry was next, $6.02; Brown next, $6.06, and Orange next, $9,08. All the others were over $lO an acre.