Electric Lines Pay Big Taxes

The State Tax Commission has raised the assessment of the Hawks-Angus line in this county about $210,000, and the Boland line about $75,000. The Ann Arbor city assessment was not touched. Outside of Ann Arbor city the two lines were assessed at $512,475 and the State Tax Commission boosted the assessment to $795,575.

In Scio the Hawks-Angus line was assessed at $38,500 and it has been raised to $66,400. The Boland line was not on the rolls and it was put on for $3,400.

In Sylvan the Hawks-Angus line was assessed at $40,000 and it was raised to $68,700. The Boland line was assessed at $20,000, raised to $56,800.

In Saline the branch line was raised from $2,000 to $3,960 and in York from $500 to $840.

In Ypsilanti town the raise was form $39,000 to $65,740.

In Pittsfield the assessment was raised from $60,000 to $89,000.

In the first district of Ypsilanti the Hawks-Angus line was raised from $19,200 to $44,360. In the second district the trackage assessment was raised from $7,000 to $16,360 and the real estate from $200,000 to $220,000. 

In Ann Arbor town, the Hawks-Angus line was raised from $7,000 to $15,000.

In Lima a correspondingly big raise was made, but as the supervisor had taken the rolls home the amount cannot be given today.