The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 6, 1917, Page 8

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WORTH MORE THAN ANY OTHER DAKOTA RAILWAY s Assessed Valuation Found by| State Board of Equalization to Be $21,800 Per Mile FRANCHISE ON MAIN LINE IS VALUABLE PROPERTY The Northern Pacific is per mile than any other railroad oper- ating in ‘North Dakota, according to a tabulation presented to the stace board of ey! tion today Hy State Pacific from trans of 377.58 miles, is per mile, a total of §: the Great Northern main line Fargo to ( dd Forks and from Grand Forks to the Montana state line, is lued at but $20,0U0 per mile, or $1,- r 9 miles from Fargo 8, and $7,012,800 for the mniles from Grand orks to tana. he Northern Pacific mai e is found to be we roadway, $2, 20; rails, $2,180; rolling The Great Northern m: chise is valued at $3,000 600; roadbed, $8,000; rz rolling stock, $5,000. rey branch of the Greai valued at $15,200 per ton to Bedford Junction, $i ford Junction to Devils 2, $12,100; Grand Forks to international cound- ary, $13,900; a majority of all other branch lines at $12,100; double track, $8,100; sidetracks, $2,500; total $28,- 318,000. The Northern Pacific branch lines from Mandan to Killdeer and Mandan to Mott are valued at $13,000, as are the Pingree-Wilton, Turtle Lake, Jamestown - La Moure and Leeds branches. The Grand Forks-Pembina line is valued at $15,200; double track at $9,000 and the Valley City cut-off line fran- n line fran auiway, $2,- 2,000, and Northern is ; Wahpe- 00; Bea- $12,100. The total vatuation is $24,- 387,000. The Soo line is valued at $15,200 per mile for its main line, and the St. Paul system main line at $18,- 400. HUMBLE HENRY COSTS: MORE UNDER KEW ACT THAN GOSTLIER CARS Trouble in Store for Legislators When Ford Owncrs Get Hep to 1917 Law ‘There's trouble a-brewing for North Dakota’s several thousand Ford-own- ers. ‘fhe new automobile li adopted the American Li sel Auto- mobile Manufecturers’ rating of horse- power, and it provides that case be- ginning January 1, 1918,-shall be as- fessed per such rated horsepower. As a matter of fact, automobileowners point out, this rating, taking into con- sideration the bore and not the speed stroke of an engine, shows that a humble Henry developes horse- power, which under the new registr tion law will cost the owner $7, while many high-priced, high-speed, six-cylin- der beauties will be registered at only a dollar or two more the year. the worst rul. of all lies in the fact that a Maxwell, which costs consider- ably more than a Ford, developes un- der the A. M. L. A. rating one horse- nd will get away for $6.50 When the Ford-owners get all of this doped out, the legisla- tors who are responsible for the adop- tion of the A. M. L. A rating are iike- ly to hear from them. The secretary of state already has rd, and he has ‘esnforre] with the aticrney general, says the wording of the act plain- is that the A o> U. A. rating, E the eccnom Ford cars be used PERSONAL PROPERTY CUT DOWN $600 000 Bismarck next year will collect per- sonal tax on only $200,000 worth of property, while this year the Bismarck Property-holder is paying tax on $800, 000. This condition results from an action of the city comn evening in reducing the a: uation of personal property from 20 per cent of its actual worth to five per- cent, as required by the new classifi- ty for taxation passed The resule 6 this Classification will be, it is believed, to encourage the im- provement of vacant property, as the burden of tax is placed on the land, COAL WEOORAo LENG at the Price of Ordinary Lignite. Fill Your Basement Now before the rush. PHONE att Clooten 105 yorth more | “}and farm lands are a particulars or names, graph shows Unele Sam's men a an unnamed camp some Big Push in’ Franee. Jlearning to handle one of them tor new siege guns, the destructive powers of which are a war depart. ment secret. It is not a loaf of UNCLE SAM COCKS HIS BIG GUNS: FOR The censor permits publication ‘Vof this picture, but will allow m The photo- 10 t in New York getting ready for their They are TRE BOGHES bread that the iS mies are ram- ~ming into the breete of the gun. It is.a hag of! raw | silk; - filled with small @ bs of powder. When the gun.is fired the bag is entirely consumed, so that.it. does not foul the enn and improvements on very lightly. Town and village lots cent of their actual worth, while im- provements on land are assessed at only five per cent of their real value. Bismarck realty holders will pay 20 per cent more taxes next year, on real estate and will pay 75 per cent less on personal property. Looking for Parents Who Threw Young Baby = From Window of Train Plentywood, Mont., Sept. 6.— Sheriff Jack Bennett, in co-opera- tion with other officers in Mon- tana and North Dakota, is search- ing for Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pierson, charged with throwing a week-old baby, alive, from a passenger train on the main line of the Great Nor- thern near Snowden and leaving it by the right-of-way to starve. The Piersons formerly lived at Rugby, .N.D., and had the child with them when they left that point. When they reached Glasgow, Mont., the child was missing. In the mcantime an engineer report- ed on the Great Northern had spied the baby from the cab of his engine, and reported to Dakota authorities, who arrived on the scene just before the child died from exposure and the effects of its fall from the moving train. The arrest of the Piersons is an- ticipated at an early date. COFFEE|CHEAP AND’ MAY BE CHEAPER GOOD NEWS FROM CHICAGO DEALER Really gratifying news was brought to the capitol today by: William O. Korten of Korten Bros., Chicago, cof- fee importers, who reports that dur- ing the course of the war coffee will not go any higher and may even be cheaper that it is at present. The Kortens import their berries from Central and South America. The war, they declare, has practically exclud ed American coffee from Europea: markets, and without this outlet the supply is larger than the demand, au- tomatically reducing the price to the lowest level in years. The state board of control, purchasing agency for pen- land escape! al and charitable institutions, is buy- | leigh jing its best coffee for ssed at 30 per} some as low as 17. |SEPTEMBER TERM GOES OVER WEEK; NO JURY TO The September term of the Bur: to have convened yestérday, has been | expense of trying them. ' adjourned. to-September 11 because ‘of the absence of Judge Nuessle. 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