Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1899-12-15
c.,n NJ. Nc. Cars Corn, TOTAL
Wy r.. w 49,, Enns Oats, Eye, Flax NUMBER
Seed and Barley CARS

OF the total wheat carloads for the
year. 217,924, 216.S53 cars were North
western spring wheat
Finances-Cash receipts from all
sources, SlS9,92630 On increase OF
$33.4l2.0O over the previous year. Dis
bursements, $213,1o4.o4, net loss OF
S24, 1921, paid from the previous sur
plus, which was $i6,074.3t, leaving the
net balance August 81, 1889, close of
the crop year, s2l.236.1o.
Re-inspections and Appeals-Of ~
779 cars held out for re-inspectiOn, in
1928 cases the original grade and
dockag2 We're confirmed: grades were
raised in S,731 cases, lowered in 504,
and in 2.416 cases dockage was
changed. There were IS cases ap-
pealed to the commission. in IS of
which decisions OF deputies were
changed and 43 confirmed, 3479 bad
ORDER cars were reported out of the
total Of 279,112 inspected. The net av-
erage dockage on total receipts averag~
ed 1858 ounces per bushel.
The department force increased
twenty-five during the year. Largest
number, 1877; smallest, ISL.
Inspection Fees.-Taking up the
shown loss @n inspection and reduced
surplus and the shrinkage of $102,-
032.44, in the last 81 months of his
predecessors administration, and the
departments running behind about
100000 on the 15-cent fee, and the
consequent restoration Of the 25-cent
fee, Inspector Reishus says:
''The cost of administering the. de-
partment has not increased, indeed,
$h1 nhor %11
direction OF economy.
THE increased rate was necessitated
simply by the plain and bald fact, as
shown by the books of my prede-
cessor during the last two and one
half years of his administration, that
the continuance of the lucent inspec-
ton fee would speedily reduce the
department to bankruptcy.
Traditional reason for increase in
the fee, if other reason were required,
lies in the act of the last legislature
in creating the Board of Grain APP
peals, which calls for further drain
OF about $40, 900 a year upon the fund
OF the department. Had the cost of
maintaining this Board been entailed
upon the department during the two
and onehalf years the l5-cent inspec-
tion fee was in force, the department
resources would have run behind
$150,000 instead of 100000, and on
coming into Office at the beginning of
the present crop year, I would have
found a deficit of about 100000 con-
fronting me, instead of the small sur
plus which remained.
wherefore, the business-like ad-
ministration of the department., in
deed the maintenance OF the entire
state grain and warehouse system, not
to mention the support of the new
Board of Grain Appeals, demanded
the restoration of the fees for inspec-
ton and weighing.
<'Moreover, the law requires that
the department shall be self-support-
ing, and that the expenses of the ad-
ADMINISTRATION shall be, borne by the
shippers of grain, without throwing
any additional burden upon the gen
eral taxpayer. This requirement of
law and good business sense, in the
light of the 100000 shrinkage in de-
partnlent resources, which awaited my
entrance into Office, and the prospect
of the additional requirement of 500
600 a year for the Appeal Board, al
lowed no alternative but an increase
in fees, as all grain shippers will
agree
The report presents a comparative
statement of earnings and expendi-
lures, also fees, for years ending Aug.
81, 1888, to 1899, beginning with the
balance Of $64,753.05, the conclusions
drawn from which are thus stated:
This statement shows that when
ever a ffteen-cent inspection fee has
been in force the department fund has
run behind at the Ute of $3.50 to
$4,000 per year, and that in 1899 It
lost $4,000 even with twenty-cent
per car fee for inspection and weigh:
ing. a The aggregate gain under a
twenty-five cent fee during the three
crop years 1861 appears to have
been about $77,5oo, or at the rate Of
not quite $4,000 per annum :. >.2,z
with an additional burden of $780,