Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1918 — SAYS JASPER COUNTY IS LOW [ARTICLE]

SAYS JASPER COUNTY IS LOW

State Board Thinks Personal Property Assessment Is. Too Small. County Assessor G. L. Thornton has received a letter from the Tnoiana State Board of Tax Commissioners advising himi that the schedule of assessments for personal property in Jasper county was too low, being below the average of other counties in the state, and suggesting that the same be increased. The letter follows: We have your report on personal property averages. We think you are low on every item except perhaps the item of cattle and farm implements, and possibly household goods, which is a little lower than we had expected. We would like for you to raise your assessment on horses, : which you report at $67. DeKalb county reports an average of sll7 |on horses: Delaware S9O; FounI tain $81; Grant SB2 ; Franklin $81; Kosciuskr S9O; Lake S9B; Putnam SB3; Tipton SB4; Wabash $lO3, and Wayne $92. We give you these figures so that you may see what you have to work to. In the (matter of hogs and sheep, which you have placed at $9 each, I we think the assessment on each of these classes of property should

average sls- There is no better property this year than sheep and hogs, and at sls each would only mean that they average about 125 lbs. We have been counting on a basis of sl6 per hundred, or sl2 a hundred net. On hogs, Blackford ] county reports sl6: Clinton sls, Delaware sls; Fountain sl7; Hamilton sl6; Jay sl6; Madison sl3; Union sl6, and Wayne sl7. On sheep, Hamilton, Hancock and Lake county each report sl4; Delaware sls; Randolph sl3; Shelby sls, and Union sls. We have hoped the automobile average this year would be S3OO, assessed on the schedule furnished. You report only $209. Blackford county reports $292; Clinton $279; Decatur $298; Delaware $300; Fountain $306; Franklin $297; Hamilton $278; Shelby $2Bl, and Wabash $3Ol. Kindly get in touch with your assessors, Mr. Thornton, and see if you can not get higher assessments.