The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-24
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHIEF
INSPECTOR OF STATE GRAIN
DEPARTMENT.
WHEAT RECEIPTS FELL OFF,
BUT THOSE OF COARSE GRAIN AND
FLAXSEED SHOWED AN
INCREASE.
FINANCES AT END OF THE YEAR.
A Net Balance Despite the Fact
That the Fees Are Smaller Than
Those Usually Imposed.

A. G. ClauSen chief inspector OF grain,
transmitted his twelfth annual report
of the state grain inspection depart
ment to the railroad commission yes
terday. 1t embraces in detail the bust
ness and transactions of the depart
ment for the crop year ending Aug.
81, 1897, including the reports for the
same period of the weighing and reg
istration departments at the several
terminal points. The report is as fol-
lows:
The total number of carloads of grain In,
pected ION arrival at the four terminal
points amounted to 214,s54, divided "a as fol-
lows: Wheat, 1884 cars; corn, 3,41S; oats
1889; rye, 4,672; barley, 1898; naAseeu'
inspection "out of store for the same
period was as follows: Wheat, 54,26S cars, and
81, 497, 147 bushels into vessels; coarse gram
Qncluding corn, oats, rye and barley aggre-
gated 6432 cars and 12,276224 bushels into
vessels; 1axseed, 500 cars, and i,o9s' $40
s., 295 cars and Sc, 1872 S47 bushels into vessels
of all kinds Of grain inspected out OF store.
Compared with the business of the previous
season, the result shows talling on 90 IN ane
receipts of wheat amounting to %, 943 car
| loads. and in barley of lis carloads; Ihere
was, however, gain in receipts OF coarse ,se
grain and flaxseed, as follows; Corn 40 4o'
| cars; oats, 1877 cars; rye, 1895 cars; max
seed 1872 cars. or a net loss in receipts
of all kinds of grain amounting to 1929
| carloads.
| The constant and steady increase In re-
| CENTS of coarse grain and faxseed each sue
| ceeding year is a particularly interesting
feature and serves to show not only the enter
prise of Northwestern grain men IN seehnms
| business from hitherto forbidden territory,
| but also the changed conditions III ldtes VI
transportation, which enables them TO o Sc
cure it on an even basis with other anu GULL
The number of carloads inspected ION ar
rival at the several terminal points q o a1p.
ing the year was Wheat, 15I,9f4; corn oa SO
| oats, 1889; rye, 1872 barley, IL, max
seed Is 113; total 214,9S4. The total NUMBER
of cars inspected. in 1895 was 25O,oOo ana IN
1891 221, $40 Excepting these two years tne
number inspected ID th Seaa mas
of the 157 IT'S car loads of spring wheat re-
ceiyed dur ng the season covered by this re-
port, 5,S31 cars inspected as NO. nara lu1,
9S8, as No. northern; 31,664, as NO. noTtn-
ern; g. 1852. as No wheat; 3,SlS, as relecteu
! and S445, as no grade ,,
Considering the fact that this crop, like
| the thr.e preceding, was affected by Smut
and frost over a considerable area, the snow.
ing is a very favorable one. The receipts Oh
contract wheat (No l hard and No. l north
ern) amounted to 10S,S29 car loads or 69
per cent of the whole. Adding to this the
| receipts of No. northern which, under
the rules of inspection, must be sound and
| of good milling quality, we find nearly 50
per cent of the crop was of fine milling quail
| ity just as it came from first hands.
FINANCES.
The amount of revenue received from all
sources during the season. was as follows:
Inspection service, $97,00O77; weighing ser
vice, $50, 827.54; country elevator licenses, ST.
179; interest on deposits in state treasury,
$2,525. g. total Of $191 1928. Disbursements
during the same period were $176. 22097, re-
sulting in a net gain for the Sop yea, of
| Sic, 3n.96. The surplus from tie preceding
season was $6S929.20, making net balarse
| on hand at the close of the year covered by
this report OF $84, 241. 16.
I This surplus was largely accumulated from
the fee of 20 cents per car load for inspection
| and % cents per car load for weighing. While
| the amount is seemingly large, the fees which
| produced it were the lowest ever known in
any similar department in the country. 1t is
| pardonable assumption that such result
Is at least in part owing to careful econo-
mical administration of the department work.
1t is also conceded. l believe, that this re-
suit has been accomplished without Gripping
the efficiency of the service and that the
past seasons record for prompt service has
not been surpassed, if equalled in any pre-
vious year.
While a reasonable far surplus in the de-
partment fund is necessary and desirable from
the standpoint of business prudence it has
not been the policy of your honorable board
to allow any unnecessary accumulation
Anticipating that the revenue from the years
t business would produce a, large surplus
even in the event of a material reduction in
the volume Of business l recommended to your
honorable board early in the season that
a still further reduction be made in the fees
for inspection and weighing and upon your
approval reduction of 25 per cent was made
to take effect Jan. l. 1897. Since that date the
fee for inspection and for weighing has been
but 10 cents per car load. Although the crop
succeeding this one, and upon which we are
now working is unquestionably a very short
one IN comparison, 1 am convinced that with
reasonable care we can carry the work
through without any increase in the present
fees, or injury to the service.
No fOI1 III
expenses and balances for the past twelve
seasons may prove of interest