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CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL'S ANNUAL NUMBER.
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WILLS, COUNTY JUDGE.
and for common school purposes 5 mills.
The year previous, 4 mills. For general
county purposes, 10 mills, and mill
upon all real and personal property for
scalp bounty purposes other than sheep,
upon which there was placed a tax of 1
cent per head for the purpose last men
tioned. Last year the rate for county pur
poses was 10 3-10 mills, and no scalp
bounty tax. The whole rate on the roll
of 1898 was 20 mills. On the 1899 roll the
whole tax, state, school, county and bounty,
was 22 3-10 mills, being an increase of 1
mill for school purposes, 7-20 mills for
county purposes, 6-10 mills for state pur
poses, and Vi mill for bounty purposes. In
1898 the total footings of the roll was
$1,744,339, which included the property em
braced in that portion which was detached
and which now constitutes part of Wheeler
County. The total in 1899, after Wheeler
County was organized, was $1,715,789. The
sum total upon which the tax levy for the
year 1900 is $1,686,322, exclusive of ex
emptions, and $29,467 less than in 1899.
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SMITH, COUNTY CLERK.
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The property upon which the tax will be
raised consists of 28,380 acres of culti
vated lands, valued at $144,490; 557,520
acres of non-tillable lands, valued at $531,
281, and improvements on deeded lands
valued at $153,336, being a sum total in
deeded lands and improvements on deeded
lands of $829,107; town lots and improve
ments, $75,097; improvements on lands not
deeded, $33,075; 41 miles of telephone
lines valued at $1,755; steamboats, sta
tionary engines, etc., $8,095; value of mer
chandise, $55,433; furniture, implements,
wagons, etc., $40,672; money, $42,362;
notes and accounts, $136,068; shares of
stock, value, $36,922; household furniture,
$27,395; number of horses and mules, 12,456;
value, $105,262; number of cattle, 17,625;
value, $176,250; number of sheep, 149,743;
value, $227,101; number of swine, 713;
value, $1,530; exemptions, $40,362. Of the
lands now known upon the assessment
roll as non-tillable, a large portion is
simply uncultivated, and is as good, if not
better, than much that is now cultivated.
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W. C. CONQLETON, SHERIFF.