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Interview with William Durbrow, Irrigation Leader (1958) (233 pages)
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Assessment Policies
Some general questions about the district, I had
noticed in looking through the lists of average
assessments for the various districts thet the Nevada
District seemed to have one of the lowest acreage
assessments.
The reagon for that was the character of the lands,
The lends wouldn't stand a high assessment. We put
a very low valuation on them which resulted in e low
sssessment.
At about what per cent did you value the land, what
per cent of its merket value? .
Well, I would say that we assessed it at about 25% of
its value. Not higher than that. Of course, a lot
of land might appear to beworth more because of the
improvements, but the district doesn't assess improvements. It's pretty hard to say what percentage of
true value is put cn the land. I would say that probably most of the time we put a pretty conseveukive
value, not over 25%, ,
Would you say that was about the average valuation
for other irrigation districts?
Some irrigation districts have some odd ways of
assessing. For instance, Turlock end Modesto, I think,