Item: Gallatin County, Montana Tax Study, 1932
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Finding Aid Title: Gallatin County, Montana Tax Study, 1932
Finding Aid Collection Number: 1016
Date Range of Collection: 1932
Creator of Materials: Gallatin County Farm Bureau. Tax Committee
Content Description: The Gallatin County Tax Study report file contains a study initiated and prepared by the Gallatin County Farm Bureau, May 13, 1932. The research was done by the Farm Bureau Tax Committee consisting of W.E. Westlake, J.C. Paugh, W.H. Buttelman, W.L. Stockton with J.F. Fabrick as Chairman. The carbon typescript of the original draft of 17 pages is accompained by the mimeographed version of 38 pages. These copies of the report are supplemented with: recommendations for change made by the Farm Bureau at their meeting of June 30, 1932 based on the results of the survey; letter of Nov. 18, 1932 from J.M. Flint of the Star Ranch Co. to U.S. Congressman John M. Evans asking for a tax moratorium to prevent loss of ranches to delinquent taxes; reply letter of November 23, 1932 from Evans with enclosures of three printed speeches supporting decreased taxes at all levels; letter of November 22, 1932 from J.W. Anderson, secretary to U. S. Senator Burton K. Wheeler, acknowledging receipt of the same request from Flint; letter of Nov. 23, 1932 from U. S. Senator Thomas J. Walsh acknowledging receipt of the same request from Flint; letter from Joseph P. Monaghan, attorney of Butte, pledging his help to acquire a loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Nov. 25, 1932.
Finding Aid URL: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv82189
Keywords: gallatin county (montana), taxes, farming, farm bureau tax committee, john m. evans, ranches, attorney, butte (montana), bozeman (montana)
Subjects: Montana and Histories of the American West
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