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Photo by Dave Einsel
Chris McVady, a sophomore accounting the rainy weather Monday by the Harring-
major, does a little catch-up work during ton Center.
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Texas factory workers outpro
duced their counterparts nation
wide by 34 percent during the late
70s, lifting the state to fourth in
terms of value produced per dollar
jpaid in wages, a Texas A&M in-
[dustrial researcher says.
Production workers in Texas
added an average of $4.99 for ev-
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“The chemical industry is
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overall productivity level of Texas
industry so far above the national
average,” Zlatkovich said.
“Chemicals and alloid products
account for more than 22 percent
of all Texas manufacturing value,
compared with less than 10 per
cent nationwide. The Texas che
mical industry has posted a level of
production per wage dollar, 35
percent higher than the national
chemical industry.”
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Satellite photos help A&M
assess timberland tax value
A Texas A&M University labor
atory is using high-altitude aircraft
and satellite photos to help tax
assessors determine timberland
values in 48 East Texas counties.
With the aid of remote sensing
photos from the National Aero
nautics and Space Administration
(NASA), the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station forestry sci
ence lab is drawing maps outlining
where pine, hardwood and a mix
ture of the two grow in East Texas.
The maps will be used by county
wide appraisal boards and school
districts to more accurately — and
evenly — determine land values.
“Under 1979 tax laws timber
land owners are given incentives
to produce wood, since they can
reduce their tax assessment by
means of production,” explained
Dr. Robert Baker, a Texas A&M
professor of forest science.
Baker said choice soil can pro
duce as much as $400 an acre of
pine and taxes can be levied on
that amount instead of the market
value, which could be anywhere
between $800 and $1,000.
“This value is commonly called
timber-use value. Baker said.
“Timber growers in Texas
know from experience that pine is
worth more per unit than most
hardwood, that timber grows best
in certain areas that it takes capi
tal to operate a timber-growing
enterprise,” Baker said. “For in
stance, pine growing on the best
soil could have over 20 times the
value per acre of hardwood tim
ber growing on the poorest soil.
“The values which the local
assessor computes for the categor
ies of timberland is a method for
ranking the timber use values per
acre.”
The Texas A&M forestry scien
tists have already mapped over 10
million acres of privately owned
timberland. Maps have also been
drawn to outline soil types.
“Our work will lead to more
standardized procedures for asses
sing the value of forest land,” Bak
er said, explaining that the project
began in 1976 through a joint
effort of the agricultural experi
ment station and the Governor s
Office of Educational Resources.
The State Property Tax Board has
joined the project.
“The data will help us make
decisions we have not been able to
make before,” Baker said. “It
would be useful to industry for de
termining which lands would be
best suited for growing trees or it
could help determine where fed
eral wilderness areas should be
placed so they wouldn’t compete
with areas that would be better
suited for production.”
By using infrared satellite
photos, the researchers can also
keep an update on which timber
lands have been harvested and
where new trees are being
planted.
About 50 school districts of the
almost 300 in the area that have
been surveyed are already using
maps from Texas A&M for asses
sing property values, Baker said,
and 20 of the 48 counties have
been supplied the drawings. Maps
for additional school districts and
counties will be available upon re
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