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Torrington Telegram
Torrington, Goshen County, Wyoming
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Explanation of higher taxes in 1919 due to devalued currency and increased property valuations in Goshen County, with comparative tax data for Burlington Railroad and Lincoln Land Company, and example of differing assessments between Goshen and Platte Counties.
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Taxes are high. So is flour, harness, wages and a thousand and one other things that we must have.
For the simple reason that our great, big dollar with the American eagle on one side and the goddess of liberty on the other is not a hundred-cent dollar any more, but is only a fifty-cent dollar. There are many reasons given and we all have our favorite, so we will not discuss that phase.
Some people, when they came to pay their taxes last month seemed to feel that they were the only ones who had seen raised, but when they found that everyone else was in the same boat they felt better.
It was not the little fellow alone who had to stand the increase but the big ones got it just the same. As an illustration we give below a comparative table showing the valuation and taxes paid in 1918 and 1919 by the Burlington railroad and the Lincoln Land Company, two of our largest tax payers:
Burlington Railroad
Valuation in Goshen county
1918 $717,600.00
Valuation, in Goshen county 1919 $1,203,516.00
Taxes, in Goshen county in 1918 13,124.39
Taxes, in Goshen county in 1919 17,761.35
Increase Taxes $4,436.96
Lincoln Land Company
1918 $260,880.00
Valuation in Goshen county 1919 $724,600.00
Taxes in Goshen county in 1918 $5,274.00
Taxes in Goshen county in 1919 $11,807.00
Increase taxes $6,623.00
Goshen county was one of three in the state in which the county taxation board which consists of the county commissioners and the county assessor, went over every individual schedule and gave all property, both real and personal, an equitable valuation. In most of the counties of the state a per cent increase was added to existing valuation. This did not adjust unfair valuations but in most cases made them more out of proportion. In Platte county all valuations were given a twenty per cent increase regardless of whether former valuations were just or not. As an illustration of the difference between the two methods, Granville Tinnan had six hundred head of cattle which he ran during part of the taxable year 1919 in Platte county and part of the year in Goshen county. To make matters even each county assessed three hundred head of cattle, both bunches of equal value. The Platte county taxes were $386.99 and the Goshen county $225.50, a difference of $161.49.
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Goshen County
Event Date
1918 1919
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burlington railroad tax increase $4,436.96; lincoln land company tax increase $6,623.00; platte county cattle tax $386.99 vs goshen county $225.50
Event Details
Taxes increased due to devalued dollar and higher property valuations; county board in Goshen county reviewed individual schedules for equitable valuation, unlike percentage increases in other counties like Platte.