County’s overall value marks five percent gain

Whitman County is worth just shy of $2.8 billion, according to the 2011 valuation by Assessor Joe Reynolds. Reynolds gave county commissioners the valuation total last week.

The 2011 total value of real and personal property is $2,769,339,855, which is up five percent from the county’s total 2010 valuation of $2,628,585,260.

The figure was finalized after the county’s board of equalization session. The board hears appeals of the assessed valuations, but no appeals were submitted to the board this year.

Reynolds said the biggest gain in the value increase came from Pullman’s new WalMart SuperCe...