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120 stories matching apprais
- Twelve Thousand Lots and a Deadline to Prove You Live There
Port Angeles appraisers faced 12,000 lots, each with improvements to value, while settlers rushed to establish residence before the appraisal closed.
- The Townsite Scandal: Port Angeles Residents Revolt
Settlers on the Port Angeles military reserve hang an appraiser in effigy after discovering their land values were arbitrarily jacked up.
- A Legislative Cleanup for Washington's Tide Lands and School Lands
A joint committee found no corruption in the state land office but recommended abolishing costly local tide-land appraisers, trimming the land cruisers, and centralizing public-land oversight.
- The Port Angeles Townsite Dispute
Settlers protest the federal government's slow and vacillating policy regarding the appraisement of land titles in Port Angeles.
- The Map That Erased a Business on the Seattle Waterfront
Property owners revolt as tide-land appraisers redraw the shore and wipe an upland business house off the map.
- Freeholders Fight a Fire-Sale Price on Seattle's Tide Lands
A petition filed with the city protested the state's low appraisal of tide lands, warning that selling public waterfront at a fraction of its value would cheat both Seattle and Washington.
- A Packing Company Tries to Buy Point Roberts' Tidelands at $1.25 an Acre
As the Alaska Packing Association angles to lock up a fishing monopoly on cheap public shore, Governor McGraw scrambles for witnesses to prove the tide flats are worth far more than the appraisement.
- The Tide Land Freeze: Ballard’s Waterfront Plats Go to Court
A judge restrains appraisers from filing supplemental tide-land plats as landowners, the state land commission and the county auditor fight over who controls the shore.
- The Railroad Land War
A farmer on the Chehalis River accuses local officials and railroad contractors of corruption and 'bulldozing' tactics regarding land appraisals and property rights.
- The Reservation Divided: A Land Rush on Yakima Ground
Federal appraisers prepare to open 1.2 million acres of the Yakima Indian Reservation to homesteaders, a transfer North Yakima hopes will bring a stampede of settlers.
- The Great School Land Scandal
A scathing state report reveals that county commissioners are exploiting their power to fix land prices, effectively buying state-owned school lands for themselves.
- The Fight Over the Wishkah River
Prominent landowners seek an injunction to halt the surveying and platting of tide lands, citing concerns over potential river obstruction and property rights.
- The Great Seattle Tide-Land Land Rush
When the sixty-day window for claiming harbor tidelands closed, a flood of overlapping applications landed in Olympia — and the state had to decide who owned the young city’s waterfront.
- Orchard Owners Stunned by Federal Loan Ruling
A new appraisal standard effectively excludes orchardists from the benefits of the farm loan act, threatening the stability of Yakima Valley agriculture.
- The Squatters of Port Angeles
A government land reservation intended for protection is caught in a web of bureaucratic delays, shifting administrations, and local political infighting.
- The Price of Fortification: Seattle Landowners Win Big Jury Verdict Against Federal Government
A federal jury in Port Orchard has valued land for a new military fort at $185,000—nearly double the government's appraisal. Officials warn the deal may collapse if the price is too steep.
- The Street Fight Over Seattle's Tide Flats
Two conflicting street grids — one drawn by the city, one by the tide-land appraisers — are cutting through factories and stalling new industry. The city council must choose.
- The Campaign for Cleaner Milk
Benton County dairymen are urged to sign up for free tuberculosis testing as the state expands its disease-prevention program.
- Who Controls Washington's Tide Flats? A Sweeping Land Bill Lands in Olympia
A new Senate measure would strip power from county appraisers and put the state's school, tide, shore and harbor lands under one powerful board—starting with Seattle's waterfront.
- The Streets Seattle Was About to Give Away
A city council committee votes to vacate waterfront streets south of Charles Street, and the city engineer warns that private tide-land leases could cut Seattle off from deep water.
- Tacoma's Tide-Land Shake-Up
Governor McGraw replaced two Pierce County tide-land appraisers seen as politicians, and Tacoma dared to hope the waterfront would be valued fairly.
- The Ladd Estate Fights to Keep the Tide-Land Mapmakers Off Its Riverfront
A South Seattle landowner sues state appraisers over new plats along the Duwamish, warning that the survey would cloud titles to reclaimed riverfront acres.
- Appraisers Put a $50,000 Price on a Richland Ranch — and a Pumping Plant to Match
The Costellos' spread three miles north of Richland, once the McAlpin homestead, is judged the foundation of one of the finest stock farms in the irrigated country — if the water can be lifted onto it.
- The Fight for Washington’s Tide Lands
A high-stakes political battle in the state legislature over the future of Washington's valuable waterfront property.
- Washington's Public Lands Were Run by a Patchwork. Reformers Wanted One Powerful Board.
A joint legislative committee concludes that county tide-land boards, roving land cruisers and district attorneys have wasted public money, and recommends a three-member state land board to manage school and tide lands.