The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 12, 1916, Page 15

mmrmfiéfn DEWEY'’S STUDIO Photograghs and Portraits Toups a Specmlty Owr Alex Sterns’ Cor. Broadway and N. P. Ave, YOUu &EN “;vzno htl\!m NOT ACQUAINTEL; with e rou; y _superior goodneu 0! on: clothes, who not have uanlnnced the sat to visit us and have your clothes made for you and measured to you personally. Marohant Tnllars ‘Bacon Block nd Forks, N. D. G- G, Wood Lillian J. Wood WOO0D & WOOD MINOT’S PIONEER CHIROPRACTORS Drugless Healers - Braucr Block Minot, N. D. L] You will a.lwaye get a square deal if you trade with Clncago Cash Store Co., Inc. Edelman, Pres. and Mgr. GENERAL MERCHANDISE Egeland and Rock Lake, N. Dak. The Edmore Mercantile Store Wants your business; we also want your good will, Righttreatment should get both. We try to be right. Edmore, N.D. YOU always find Satisfaction _in buying at the Peoples Trading Co. General Merchandise : HANSBORO, .- NO. DAK. Onr established motto is ; “MORE FOR YOUR MONEY" .~ Michigan Mercantile Co. . MICHIGAN ~ .- | NO.DAR. FARMERS— hemi:rtgs altlampden make your Canenburg’s Sanitary Shaving Parlors Good Work Courteous Treatment Col. H. A: Kinney REAL ' ESTATE - AND REGETEBED STOCK AUCTIONEER 1 also breed "Chester White' Hogs, th large prolific and ea.sy feeding kind. Al work and s aranteed, Phone or Write Me at ‘MILNOR NORTH DAKOTA Pure Cane suéar, 100 lbs. sack... $’f.42 Fresh roasted coffee, 27c value, 5 pounds Walter Baker’s Chocolate, 1 lb..... New Pack,. Kriers’ extra sifted June peas, 18c value No. 2 can, 12%(:, dozen, T AT 135 'C.S.Brackett Co 21-23 South Fifth - Street - MINNEAPOLIS Established 1875 Incorporated 1901 The Steol Trust . and Taxes (Continued from page 15-) taken, so the ore that year was assessed for taxation at $271,839,341, or about 18 cents a ton on the average. The com- mission divided the ore into 12 classes, valuing it at from 9 to 39 cents a ton, assessed value. The average “was 18 cents. Yo ROYALTY RATES SHOW TAX VALUES TOQ LOW There are many things that indicate that this valuation'is entirely too.small. One thing is the royalty charges that prevail in ' the mining districts. A royalty is a price per ton paxd to the —owner of ore deposits by a muung oper- ator for the privilege of mmmg the ore. In other words the ore in the ground must at least be worth the price a mining' operator will pay an owner for it. . The operator ‘must pay the royalty, pay costs of mmmg and" tra.nsportatlon and make a profit in ordér to do business. So he can not pay more royalty than the ore is worth. The royalty rates in the anesota. iron ranges, except on state-owned ore lands, average twice to three times the value of the ore given by the tax .com: mission for taxation purposes. The tax commission in 1914 gave the ore an. average value of 37 cents a ton for tax- ation, yet the tax commission in its report of that year admits that royalties on ore ran from 50 to 82 cents per ton. If the ore is’ worth 50 to 80 cents a ton “to mine operators, if they are willing to pay that price for it in the ground, why is it not worth that price for taxation, especially as the law provides that the - tax commission shall find the true value of the ore. The tax commission- does not explam' this . point, but it makea the following . referénce to it: “In this connection it is well for the . commission to-plainly state it- does not -consider royalty as a factor in determm ing the value of iron ore, and it is ent;rely ignored in:its calculations.” No._explanation ‘whatever is made by the tax -‘commission for this action in disregarding royalties®. The fact remains unexplained that royalties average away above the value placed on the ore for’ taxation. The tax ‘commission admits royalties run from 50 :to 80 cents a_tom,- - showing the ore is worth- that to oper- fa-x comxmssmn taxes it . to: - ators, but the ore in the ground that gpe the present taxes-ps id. the y: ‘tax commission says the ore 13 worth in N the ground.an average. of only 37 cents’ --a ton, This Hill léase was not. a small atxon gives cnly fraction of the revenuo .she ought to be getting from = new, [ tonnagetax. 4 scientific and adequkte T R —— WHY IS IT? wmkflnmlrmm:mhmm a phemmeng.tmwth become so l with % & vommnr e give one blx values in materials lnot;nlnmtnylmndme pexfect fit. $18.00 Suits and Overcoats” are fine goods, md the suits and overcoats at- $20, $26, $30 and $35 | always please. Every garment guaranteed. Over 300 patterns fo select from. ilored goods here. Write us or come in. Hagen & Olson FARGO, The HoilandWild'Oats . Separaor Can you farm successfully without this wild oats separato tor ? New special catalog just out will be mailed on application. * Address ALBERT HOILAND FARGO, NUBRTH DAKOTA Haxby & Braseth, Architects and Superintendents 6412 Broadway FARGO, N. D. Plans -and specifications for all kinds of buildings. . School’ bul.ldmgs a speclalty or marker, write us for our up-to-date catalog which will be mailed you for the asking. ' Our prices are reasonable and our work guaranteed,: DAKOTA MONUMENT co., East Front. Street. Fargo, N. D. If yoii inténd buying & monument we aref $15000 These bred, well marked £ and splendid individuals. ‘ Come and see our herd or wfite E. C. SCHROEDER MOORHEAD MINNESOTA ‘ ) ; LATHROP'S ~ REGISTERED BIG = TYPE ; EROLIFIC POLAND CHINAS, from_stock : < \heavy boned. Price October 1915 boars, $ September, 1915, herd' headers, $60 pounds, at 555 A]sa 10’ registered Oxfcmfcwaat $20 each FRED LATHROF & SON! WA UZEKA. WIS, 40 ueh A few mnd One of our’ modera.te pnoed : Monuments ‘proposition.” It provided for: the mining _of millions of tons of, ore: annually. Fagsn Judge -Gary, presuient ‘of the steel - ~trust, some years ago when ore was worth'less “than it is now, estimated the * value of the oreiin the ground held by the » trust at $1 a’ton. ‘He shid the ‘corpora- - ‘tion owni 0000000Q ‘tonstof 6 the ground. ‘and:that it and Get Out of Debt ———--_ o “Borrow on the’ amortlzed plan. Pay interest and primcipal in .twenty: equal annual instaliments ‘of $90.68%2 § per Thousand Dollars per annum:’ or $1818.70, and when the twenty notes are paxd the ‘debt and interest is paid in full. " If ‘'you borrow $1000 and pay 6 per cent for twenty years you pay $1200 in"interest and '$1000° in prin- ‘cipal, making $2200 or $386.30 more than' on- the -amortized plan. Wnte' us for full partxculars. This statement was mad by Judge Gary i ~«in an authorized intervie i . Morrow. . Gary saic it ton, boat lm * trust itself, indicate’ that Minnesota 18 not gettmg' —out of the mining