The "unimproved value" is by no means an accurate definition of what either the taxpayers or the Legislature at the time desired.
On the other hand, the rate levied under the unimproved value assessment upon vacant lands is sometimes oppressive, and appreciably reduces their capital value.
Country ratepayers for the most part approved the change to the unimproved value assessment; but speculators in unoccupied city, town, and suburban lands regarded it as a gross injustice.
So the unimproved value mode of assessment has apparently assisted to make a substantial reduction in the market value of city and suburban properties.
It may be conceded that the unimproved assessment has caused distress among landowners who had no means of improving their properties, and could only find a market for them at a heavy sacrifice.
There are also 200 miles of unimproved roads known as "feeders.
In 1849, the unimproved portion of the Campine was estimated at little less than three hundred and fifty thousand acres.
They are entitled thereupon to take up holdings at a rental based on the combined value of the land in anunimproved condition and of the improvements.
It is thought to be equitable that the former should be taxed at a higher rate, and the principle is similar to that which dictates the taxation of land upon its unimproved value.
The figures are as follows:-- Actual Value, Value including of Unimproved improvements.
Much anxiety has been felt by large landowners and owners of urban property throughout Australasia at the successive adoption of a tax on unimproved values by South Australia, New Zealand, and New South Wales.
They had three times refused to accept a Bill for the re-assessment of the land of the Province with a view to the imposition of a tax on unimproved values.
Their attention is turned mainly to urban land, because it is subject to the greatest increase in unimproved value and returns the larger portion of the receipts derived from this source.
And if a snail, or a worm, can contrive to live now in an unimproved condition, why should its improving cousin die off?
Most of the houses are owned by the tenants, the lots having been sold to them unimproved by old Pittsburgh estates.
The other third of the improved land and a considerable portion of that half of the farm area known as unimproved land are utilized as pasture for domestic animals.
In this year, fourteen families were brought from Chicago and placed on the bare, unimproved prairie, where, however, there was abundant water supply carried by a large irrigation company.
The changes brought on by gradual cultivation of unimproved lands on the other hand enriched the owners of such lands quite out of proportion to their original value.
We are told by Mr. Elwood Mead, Chief of the Division of Irrigation, that he believes Oregon "has the largest area of unimproved land whereon irrigation is possible of any State in the Union.
Investigate and report on: The amount of time saved in a year by a farmer in your locality because of good roads; or lost because of unimproved roads.
The wear and tear on vehicles and equipment because ofunimproved roads.
Effect of improved or unimproved roads in your county on school and church attendance, social life, etc.
Most of the geese on farms are grades produced by crossing thoroughbred or high-grade males on the old unimproved stock.
Doubtless fortunes will be made by enterprising companies who secure large areas of unimproved land at low prices, bring water on them, and then sell in small lots.
Half of these are well distributed in small settlements which have the advantages of roads, mails, and school-houses, and which offer to settlers who wish to work adjacent unimproved land at prices which experience shows are still moderate.
If there is anything more trying on man or beast than to travel over an unimproved road, it must be to travel over one which has just been "worked" by the antiquated methods now in vogue in many of the states.
Heavier weights are difficult to handle upon unimproved surfaces unless they be constructed like the Addison roller, the weight of which can be increased or lightened at will by filling the drum with water or drawing the water out.
Hundreds of miles of macadam roads are built in the United States each year on unimproved or unstable foundations and almost as many miles go to pieces for this same reason.
This practice, together with that of placing the material on unimproved foundations and leaving it thus for traffic to consolidate, has done a great deal to destroy the confidence of many people in stone roads.
If it were no advantage, these forms would be left, by natural selection, unimproved or but little improved, and might remain for indefinite ages in their present lowly condition.
From the Little River, now the Custom House, downward, the beach was unimproved except by the construction of sloping roadways down to the water.
This would give us then for the United States, a capital of two thousand millions, all in active employment, and exclusive of unimproved lands lying in a great degree dormant.
I had it assessed as unimproved suburban property at so much the lot, but he made a kick to the board of equalization and got it put in as unimproved farm land at fifty dollars an acre.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unimproved" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
