Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1898 — Assessment of Horses and Cattle. [ARTICLE]

Assessment of Horses and Cattle.

The Board of Review has finished going over the assessors' books of the various townships, and have figured out the average assessed value of horses and cattle in the various townships. These average assessed values are here given: . HORSES CATTLE Gillam $17.20 12.97 Hanging Grove. 24.08 .17.14 Wheatfield 19.01 15.79 Kankakee 25.58...... 16.22 Barkley 21.58 18.30 Walker 20.04 14.43 Union 24.06 16.43 Marion 26.75 20.27 Jordan 21.96 16.18 Milroy... 22.46..... .15.53 Carpenter 53.11 17.04 Keener 16.90 16.67 Newton 22.00 20.06 County Average 21.82 16.73 Now while a “boss is a boss” wherever you find him, yet it dees not follow that all horses are of equal value, nor should they all be assessed alike. Moreover it is but reasonable that the horses of some townships should average higher in value than the horses of some others. Thus we know that in the newer and less developed, and to some extent less fertile regions of the county, the proportion of “trading stock,” “skates,” plugs &c to good horses is greater than in others. Still that fact will not explain but rather accentuate some of the differences in the above assessments. Take for instance, Kankakee township. That is one of the newer townships, and though it has much fine land and no doubt many good horses, yet there is little doubt but what their horses are not as good, on the average, as those in Gillam, yet they are assessed just about 50 per cent higher. Again the horses in Milroy are assessed higher than those of Newton. Probably they ought to be very materially lower. Evidently the Board of Review w 11 need to revise these assessments all along down the line.