The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 22, 1919, Page 3

FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1919 COUNTY ASSESSED FOR:$20,000,000 OF WHICH $44,650,398 WILL FALL ON FARMERS AND OWNERS OF FARMS Valuations for 1919 Approximately Three Times Those of 1918— Agriculturist Hardest Hit of All by Townley’s New Tax Schome—Personal Exemptions Shown to Amount to Little— Bismarck Will-Pay on Almost $5,000,000. The total assessed valuations of all property, real and personal in Bismarck and Burleigh county, amount to $19,775,749, of which $4,799,366 is Bismarck’s portion. These are the figures as revised by the city and county boards of equalization and submitted to the state board for final action. Out of the 47 townships in the county, eighteen had their} assessed valuations on real property as placed by the township Grain: Wheat 40,411 bushels, Flax 9,335 bushels. Other grains 32,450 bushels, Farm Land ’Way Up Farm lands without improvements including $89,571 in Bismarck, $14,- 650,398, Lots without improvements, includ- ing $2,858,916 in Bismarck, $3,008,407. Improvements on business property, including $1,039,229 in Bismarck, $1,- 242,626. Improvements on residential prop: erty, including $811,650 in Bismarck, $874,318. Values By Townships The total assessed valuations on real property in each township in the ty, including Regan, South Wilton pismarck, are as follows: , Township Present Original Figures’ Figures. Wild Rose . «$ * 25,388 $ jLong Lake ..... !Morfen Telfer Missouri (Fort Rice | Thelma boards increased by the county body,.the remaining showing de- | Taft creases. Regan’s assessment was decreased, while South Wilton | Logan and Bismarck’s valuations were increased, the latter city from $1,587,419 to, $1,880,637 on real property alone. In proportion to its original valua-~ tion on real preperty Ecklund town- ship shows the largest cut in final-as- sessment from $70,033 by the town} board to $24,805 by the county com-| missioners. McKenzie township shows the greatest average increase from| $61,977 to $73,577. The total valua-| tion of real property as reached by| the township and city officials include oth city and country property andj covers the entire county including} Bismarck. | Totals For County The following are the totals for the entire county, including Bismarck: ‘Household goods $49,845 (Bismarck exclusively). Clothing, jewelry, books, etc. $4850 (Bismarck exclusively). Workmen’s tools $550. Farming tools, harness, gas engines, | ete. $10,140. ~ “BAYER CROSS” ON | GENUINE ASPIRIN S AYER é EB NZ “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” to be genuine must be marked with the safety “Bayer Cross.’ Always buy an unbroken Bayer 1*.ckage which con- tains proper directions to safely rec] lieve Headache, Toothache, Warache, Neuralgia, Colds and pain. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets it but a few cents at drug stores—larger packages also, Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacid- ester of Salicylicacid. Horses: 1,845 1-year olds, $23.149, price $17.21. 1,286 2-year olds, price $20.61. $28571, 10,919 8-year olds and over $396,- 196, average price $36.29. $156.50. Cattle: 038 1-year olds $118,279, average price $14.7: 5,332 33 2-year olds $123,200, average! $377, price $22.28. 12,221 3-year olds and over 384, average price $30,88. 440.5 bulls $21,886, average $5,667, average $4.47, 441 sheep $1715, average 3.89 $3.89. 4,272 hogs $88,715, average $90.63. Threshing outfits, excepting engines $22,709, average price $194.10. Gas engines, tractors, $75,009, aver-| age price $320.90. Boats $4000. Goods and merchandise $593.459. Furniture and fixtures $86,964. Pool halls, movies, etc, $8,550. Manufacturers tools, and machinery $5,310. Buildings and improvements leased sites and reuted land $113,113. Bank stock $600,065. Oil stations $4,881. Elevators, $127,670, average price hinery in flour and feed mills Franchise and patents $600. (Bis- marck exclusively). Electric light plant $403,710. Gas plant $108,000 (Bismarck ex- clusively). Waterworks $149,440 (Bismarck ex- clusively). Miscellaneous $69,574. ‘Moneys and credits $2,666,506. average average 707 Stallions $10,955, agevage price! price price; price price implements Boyd Apple Creek . Lincoln Driscoll ‘Sterling McKenzie Menoken Gibbs ‘Hay Creek . Clear Lake . Christiana Sidley Butte . | Frances Naughton Burnt Creek . Riverview . Lein }Lyman TSYY. << Cromwell Crofte 28,276 30,669 26,024 74,002 36,533 74,216 102,505 21,942 27,584 120,799 29,409 18.216 Glenview Harriett Wing Rock Ghylin .. Ecklund . Hil 108,429 Painted Woods . 30,570 Phoenix ... - 19,727 Richmond 22,798 Canfield Estherville Grass Lake . Hazel Grove .... Florence Lake .. Summit Slater . Wilson eee Village of Regan South Wilton Bismarck 70,033 32,081 47,405 | on 30,086 80,881 5,582 + 1,880,637 1,587,419 JAPANESE IN CHINA Peking, Aug. 22.—The Peking gov- ernment is in receipt of a telegraphic report that three Japanese ships of wer have appeared off the coast of len and a detachment of marines landed at’ Feochow. The reason igiven for the landing was that the jocal Japanese reauired protection trom the excesses of the Chinese, re- Columbia Phonographs Columbia Records ON EASY TERMS WHEN DESIRED COWAN’S DRUG STORE “They Must Make Good or We Wi ” “No matter how long you: have worn a pair of Oshkosh B’Gosh Overalls, if at any time you feel they have not thoroughly satisfied you, your dealer is instructed to exchange them for a new pair without charge.” Here is an iron-clad guarantee. Yet not one man ina thousand finds it necessary to take advantage of it. This means that when you buy Oshkosh B’Gosh, they will make good. OSHKOSH OVERALL CO., OSHKOSH, WIS, SHKOSH B’GOSH sulting from the boycott movement. UNBURN - Apply VapoRub lightly—it soothes the tortured skin. % FHEY MUST MAKE GOOD OR WE WILL CUSTOM EXPERT TAILORING REPAIRING ——SOLD BY—— HAND PRESSING DRY CLEANING 5.E.BERGESON & SON | 5; Wheat Guarantee ‘Act. 18,981] * BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE. - BARNES ASSERTS GRONNA DOPE ON WHEAT IS WRONG Head of United States ‘Grain Corporation Shows That Price Is Holding Up TWO YEARS AVERAGE $2.05 Julius H. Barnes, United States wheat director, recently made public his reply to the statement issued -by Senator Gronna, \chairman of. the senate agricultural committee, on August 12, reflecting on Mr. Barnes and the United States Grain Corpora- tion, in their administration ‘of the ‘Mr, Barnes’ answer is contained in the following letter sent to ‘Senator Gronna: “My Dear Senator: ‘ “I note through the public press your statement ‘of August 12, I lems of this ‘office, the sympathetic co-operation of your committee. Be- 5|fore this task of national administra- tion should be again embarassed by charges of manipulation. tending to undermine public’ confidence, please _{Srant me the opportunity to examine statements of presumed facts made before your committee. In this case, was there ‘proper effort at verifica- tion! ‘About Manipulation “I refer particularly to your state- ment: “«They should’ know %hat owing to manipulation’ in administering the grades and standards, together with the damage done by hot weather to the maturing crops, the winter, wheat producers are receiving as low as $1.15 per bushel for their wheat, not the $295 which Mr. Barnes gives us a theoretical average, and that this year’s crops may average not, over $1.50 per bushel.” “That $1.15 statement originated as the uneasy apprehension of a Kansas editor. It is ‘as if, distracted, one anx- iously sought insurance against one’s home catching fire at the same instant that a cyclone wrecked it. lightning struck it, earthquakes shook it, and a flood swept it away. All might con- 7 ceivably happen at once, but it is not likely. Out of 80,000,000 bushels of wheat marketed ‘in the southwest since July 1, our records fail to indi- cate even one thousand bushels, of wheat so priced. Of 16,000 carloads of wheat received in Kansas. City, only six cars sold below $2.00, and the lowest was $1.92. Less than. six per- cent has sold below the " standard price for Np. 3 at $2.11. The Average Price “As to the ‘$2.05 which Mr, Barnes gives as 9 theoretical average,’ the department of agriculture . gives, monthly, the actual average farm price received by the grower, includ- ing actual prices for damaged and in- ferior qualities. Those official reports allow the following. calculations: Crop of 1917, 423,000,000 bushels marketed at average growet price of Crop of 1918, marketed price of “The weighed average for two crops is $2.0459, and was the basis for my statement. “As to the producer not receiving the full measure of the guarantee, it is interesting to note that the average farm price, July 1, was $2.20, and on August 1, $2.17, between which dateS there was marketed 150,000,000 bush- els, evidently at twelve to fifteen cents above the average price obtain- ed during two years of the fair price control. “In view of this the anxiety: ‘that this year’s crops may not average over $1.50’ seems premature. “The Wheat Guarantee is express- ed in standard grades promulgated ‘by the express direction of congress. The guarantee is expressed in prices at certain market terminals, and to in- sure that a fair reflection of those terminal prices reach the producer at country stations, the same standards of quality must be used, or price com- parison is impossible. The grain cor- poration asked the millers and dealers at country points fo accept as final the judgment of the disinterested gov- ernment agency in cases where the | producer felt grades or prices did not properly extend to him that guaran- tee. For the first time in the age- long dispute between buyer and sell- er the producer can get a disinterest- ed decision, binding on the buyer, at the expense of a postage stamp. To the credit of the trades, these con- tracts have been generally accepted. and the usual trade rights of individ- ual judgment surrendered to the common good. The producer appar- ently is satisfied with his treatment. for with two million wagon loads of wheat marketed, we have received in all our offices, less than one. hun- dred appeals against grade or price offered As to Damaged Grades. “If your suggestion is that the Grain Corporation prices on damaged wheat are relatively too low, fair dis- cussion on that phase is welcomed. Those discounts are the judgment of twenty men of life-long grain experi- ence, actuated by the.same. high ideal of national service as yourself., We aim to establish these discounts. a8 generously as soundly possible in the relief of such producers as suffer from nature‘s disfavor, and ‘shall not hesi- tate to recast them when convinced of error. ‘Nor shall we hesitate to provide correction and retstitution by dealers in such cases as develop where the producer is not properly treated. The competition of thous- ands of individual mills and dealers affords additional security to the pro- ducer. This competition is real and active. “Nothing in many years of private experience and nothing in two years of experience and nothing in two years of experience in public control war- rants me in accepting, without pro- test, such expressions as ‘manipula- tion in administering the grades, and standards’ or that ‘the producers are thereby defrauding and the consumers receive the benefit.’ It is a time for sobriety of sveech and restraint of statement. Nothing is gained by ap- plying such terms ‘to transactions made, with few exceptions, as the’ sin- . A ushels, at average grower § greatly desire, in the difficult prob-| a Next Time Try a Sige" EXT time you’re seeking ‘a thirst-quencher, and: find: you are tired of wz our friendly hunch and try a _ fe the old familiar, “so-so” sort of-drinks—takg~ ies ai : In Brazilla you get a wonderful flavor of ripe fruit julca-- tinged with rich spices. It’s a supremely refreshing beveragé that tastes deliciously different from any other. cere expfession’ of fair business judg- ment. “Last February, with the largest winter wheat acreage ever sown, and with rosy crop prospects throughout the world, the producers of this coun- try anxiously sought national legisla- tion making the guarantee effective. No spring wheat acreage had been sown then and it was argued that, to that extent at least, the national guar- antee should be regarded as a war contract and discarded as such. Our people, to their credit, insisted on nothing bordering on repudiation. One billion dollars was voted to make the producer secure and at the same time protect the consumer, should the de- velopment of a world price, fairly as- certained, level than the guarantee, Fair Price Level. ““Today, reduced ‘crops here and abroad indicate 2 we: rrice level fully equal to the guarantee basis, and the consumer naturally, is content to buy his bread on that level. The producer, secure at all times by the guarantee, should not insist he be allowed to seek a better market, with- regard to the consuming public, justify resale at ‘a lower| Tell the man you want Brazilla— no substitutes can take its place. lately facing the prospect of a one billion dollar tax. “In this period of difficult recon- strution the authority and influences vested in this office should hold the balance level, and you do quote me correctly in stating that by every natural and proper influence, particu- larly by the resale of wheat ‘bought at the guarantee level, I shall try t> establish the fair price level expressed in the guarantee, and no higher. 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