Other letters, to individuals, universities, and state labor or safety officials, discuss the limited number or total absence of safety inspectors and the nonexistence of labor safety laws. Questions regarding fire laws, building codes, or sanitation were referred to the cities for ordinances. There are occasional responses to requests by men to retrieve unpaid wages referring them to private attorneys. The bulk of all this correspondence deals with agriculture, homesteading, mining and industry with a portion of the later correspondence dealing with female labor law enforcement. Limited correspondence also deals with administrative functions of the bureau.
Letters regarding printing of annual and biennial reports are the most common.
There are also regular expense account listings accompanying the mailing of vouchers to the State Board of Examiners. The absence of a letterbook from 1909-1911 may represent a missing one, or one may never have existed, the auditor regularly complaining of the press of other duties and recommending that statistics once again be an independent office. The office of Commissioner of Immigration, Labor and Statistics was abolished in 1917 with the creation of the Industrial Commission. Volumes and their entries are in chronological order. Each volume except the first has an alphabetical index to addressees.