Ann Arbor Best Assessed City

ANN ARBOR BEST ASSESSED CITY

VERDICT OF STATE TAX COMMISSION ON OUR ASSESSMENT. 

Jackson City Was Raised Nearly Four Million and a Half of Dollars.

The State Tax Commission has just raised the assessment of the city of Jackson $4,460,585, an increase of 36 per cent.

While the Tax Commission was in Ann Arbor last week, President Freeman stated as a reason why Ann Arbor's books were not being overhauled by the commission was that the Ann Arbor assessments were believed to be nearly correct. "You have," said he, "one of the very best assessed cities in the state."

In Jackson, almost every assessment in the city was altered, some were raised only slightly, and other were doubled. In one ward the total real estate assessment was increased 85 per cent.

Boland's assessment in Jackson was left at $300,000. The D., Y., A. A. & J. assessment was reduced from $27,000 to $17,000. In one township of Jackson the Hawks-Angus assessment was reduced from $18,000 to $7,500. In Leoni their assessment was increased from $50,000 to $63,000, while Boland's assessment was increased from $42,000 to $63,000.