For example, it is possible to find measurements of stream flows, lists of routine expenditures, and lists of applications to appropriate water reports of the State Engineer. Reports of the Superintendent of Public Instruction might include lists of teachers certified, lists of normal scholarships granted, and lists of superintendents appointed in a given year, along with information about individual school districts. Reports of other agencies, particularly those with regulatory authority, contain summaries, or even the full text, of important decisions and hearings. The opinions of the Attorney General are included in many of the reports from that office, while the Industrial Commission's reports routinely include summaries of decisions reached at their hearings. The tendency for most agencies to include less statistical information and to report on their activities in a more general way began in the 1920s.
Reports issued in later years contain much less detailed information.
After 1956, the series was discontinued. The order in which the reports were numbered seems to have been initially based loosely upon some idea of agency hierarchy. Later, in the teens and 20s, an alphabetical arrangement was followed, which gave way in turn to a more random placement. Reports for state agencies are still issued, and these are cataloged as individual series. Appendix A is an alphabetical list by agency name of all of the individual reports in the series.