Identifier: somefactsconcern00hawk (find matches)
Title: Some facts concerning York and York County : a sesqui-centennial memento
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Hawkins, Charles Augustine, 1859- Landis, Houston E
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Publisher: York, PA. : (Press of York daily
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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lves in a few minutes and at a trifling cost 4^ York and in contact with refreshing country sur-roundings. To this may be added, for thosedesiring it, the enjoyment of a dance, or, ata very small additional charge, a theatricalor operatic performance in one of the twopretty pavilions with which the park is pro-vided. York is satisfied with its telephone service.It has the rare advantage of competition.The telephone monopoly is perhaps peculiarin this,—that the larger the town and themore telephones there are to be operated ata consequent less cost for each, the higherthe price charged for their use. The rentalof telephones with us formerly was $60 ayear in business places. Competition immed-iately reduced this to one-half and less, whilefor a residence a phone may now be had ata cost of $6.00 a year. One of the tworival companies has 1700 telephones in ser-vice and the other about 1000, and the busi-ness of the old company alone several timesexceeds that which it enjoyed before com-
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York County -/9 petition was established. Our sympathy isextended to the people of other cities whohave not yet been able to throw off this mostunreasonable and most absurd of monopo-lies. The assessed valuation of the real estatein the city was $10,642,825 in 1890.* By 1900this had increased to $16,918,479. the in-crease being $6,275,624. The entire taxrates for all purposes for the period from ♦Assessed value of real estate for city purposes:Wards. 1890. 1900. 1. $1,118,360 $1,580,595 1.887.0471.438.7351.693.516 624.4721.533.947 902.783 908.3921.986.107 760.4171.868.0651.384.008 350.395 2. 1.501.755 3. 1,219,535 4. 1,201.775 5. 515.505 6. 1.017.185 7. 769.320 8. 544.660 9. 1,107.685 10. 551,390 11. 1.095.683 12. 13. $10,642,855 $16,918,479 ^o York and 1890 to 1901 inclusive, averaged just about15^ mills,* the city rate for the entireperiod being seven mills. The assessed valueis low and the tax rate for all purposes webelieve to be lower than in any town of itssize in the United S

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