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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1940)
. Assessor Beyers Replies To Critics 01 Valuations (Continued from Pago One) tainly want to try the experiment of raising valuations in the community where I live and own several pieces of property. I feel that I passed the expert stage many years ago, in fact, back in 1919, when the flrot appraismant was made, and we had about 400 ap plications before the Board of Equali zation, and worked until midnight several nights in order to got the work completed on time. The assessed valuation placed on aU property in Coquille was made by a board of appraisers in 1919, and has remained at that value except for a shift in values on Front street to Second Street, and a small increase in the North End, both changes be ing made several years ago. In 1919 only a small part of the town had paved streets or sewers. No value was added to property on account of street and sewer improvements. The reason valuations were not increased was to give the owners an opportun ity to pay for these improvements before an increase in valuation, which was a period of tan yean. When the ten year period was up, it was my intention to increase the valuation of all property abutting on paved streets. But in 1929, which was the end of the ten year period, we were occupied with making a cruise of all timber in Coco county, which took a good part of three years, (and, by the way, that cruise was placed on the tex roll as fast as It was made without waiting until it was all com plete). The depression came on im- • mediately following, and nothing was < ever done to Coquille valuations un- i d;til this year, due to the fact that I i could not find the time to do the work 1 myself, and could not get funds ap- i propriated in the county budget to I have the work done until in 1939, and ' could not get the appraisers until late in that year. Wo did succeed in gat- i Ung the state appraiser to appraise | all the industries in the county in 1 the forepart of that year. 1 As a comparison of values between i Coquille, Marshfield and North Bend, < we will take the main business cor- j ners and beet residence districts in i The fiscal year ending June 30, last, was the brightest in Oregon’s history from an industrial stand* point, according to records of the State Industrial Accident commis sion. Payrolls of industries under the protection of the workmen’s compensation act, for this 12-month period aggregated 1154,137,340, an in* crease of 7.05 per cent over the rec ord for 1935-39. Reports compiled by the commission reveal the em ployment of an average of 120,120 men in Oregon tadustries during 1939-40, an increase of 6309 over the previous fiscal year. Cash For Burned Oat Heaters Sr aP who Proni A WUteri ► OREGONIAN J. A. Hannon Phone 1MR — Optile See v-c f Now Comes A New Á AND YOU’LL SEE THE DIFFERENCE! I I, In A G«n.rol Electric »°"»»1 FASTEST HEATING ¿FINEST FEATURES | -•VW- offwwf by O-e •New 5-H mc Clnaa Knseti Calrod Units • ¿Quart Thrift Cooker e _a. a Porcelain body • La SPECIAL/ $139.95 .-a»*1** Terms LOOK! DeLuxe < for only |UI down, U*» a month Standard < for only down, P.M a mouth Special « for only |MI down, H59 ,4i. ________ £ . New—FURNITURE—Used Msuawnwisc c u aa,,e, -■ " « * r ■ ' Í- * -1 - „ .................. ................................. a ■—arf i • ** ■’ ‘ 4. ’dF*X;. ' m M • i ¿;&i .<_* . _ . . (V