Much Land Sold for Back Taxes in North Carolina in 1921

Land Sold for Taxes

Yesterday the office force of Sheriff Roberson had quite a job disposing of the land belonging to delinquent tax payers. Some 125 tracts of land were sold at the court house door. The taxes for which the property was sold aggregated around $2,500. This is a much better showing than many of the counties have made. The taxes to be collected by the sheriff of Martin county aggregate around $170,000, and less than 1 ½ per cent of the county’s real property was sold for taxes yesterday. The land sold in many of the counties has ranged as high as 5 and event 10 per cent of the total property listed.

From the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, N.C., June 7, 1921