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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.
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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.
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