Maroh 1, 1929 
 
 
        (Excerpt from Col. Lieber's letter to Gov. Leslie) 
 
 
Honorable Harry G. Leslie, 
Indianapolis, Indiana 
 
Dear Governor: 
 
            Pursuant to my conversation with Mr. Brown, I beg to sub- 
mit the following excerpt from a study of tax economics for thirty- 
three southern Indiana counties. An arbitrary line running east and 
west on the north edge of Monroe, Brown and Bartholomew counties, as 
shown on the accompanying map, leaves thirty-three counties for the 
southern third. 
 
 
Owen 
Monroe 
Broawn 
Ripley 
Dearborn 
Switzerland 
Jefferson 
Jennings 
Jackson 
Lawrence 
Greene 
 
 
Davie ss 
Pike 
"Martin 
Dubols 
Orange 
Crawford 
Washington 
Scott 
Clark 
Floyd 
Harrison 
 
 
Perry 
Spencer 
Warrack 
P sey 
Decatur 
Ohio 
Bartholomew 
Sullivan 
Knox 
Gibson 
Vanderburgh 
 
 
These thirty-three counties contain- 
 
 
25,3%/ of state population 
34.2, of land area 
44..2 of woodland 
 
 
 
54.1% of idle land 
 
 
-    743,044 people 
- 7,991,400 acres 
-    629,755 acres pastured 
     572,516 acres unpastured 
   1,202,271 acres total 
 
-    543,573 acres 
 
 
        TAX INO01MS AND  _PAY1T S of 29 counties 
(Excluding from the 3 listed - Sullivan, Knox, Gibson 
   and Vanderburgh) 
 
 
Total taxes collected 
          1921 
 
 
29 Counties 
 
 
1928 
 
 
State Tax 
  1928 
 
 
17,210,573.55 17,527,579.73 1,895,465.15 
 
 
Marion County 17,020,198.88   19,747,918.64   1,767,543.56 
 
(B) Remaining four counties (bounded by blue line) 
 
 
Vanderburgh,) 
Knox, Gibson) 
& Sullivan ) 
 
 
8,478,258.67 
 
 
9,119,526.02 
 
 
671,055.39 
 
 
40,128.65 
 
 
9,261,207.31   9,611,409.68 
 
 
(A) 
 
 
  S3chool Aid 
 
 
1,075,234.16 
 
 
None 
 
 
Lake County 
 
 
M93807.95          None 
 
 
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