The Teton peak-chronicle., 1905-03-30
PREPARING FOR
ACTIVE WORK.
Col. Allen Miller Outlines Policy Of
immigration Commissioners
Office.

says the capital News, and he can
be found in his Office any day after
O'Clock in the morning until the
close Of working hours, and some
times we'll into the night in getting
affairs in shape to begin active
work in the field. He has mass
OF literature piled up in his office
which he is sending out in answer
to requests from all parts of the
country, asking for information con-
cerning Idaho. When asked by
reporter as to what he was doing
and what his ideas were as TO his
future policy, Mr.. Miller said:
"To be candid with you, we are
not doing anything except distrib-
uting the literature of our predeces-
sor. The word doing implies
performance. Now. since you in
sist, l will tell you what we are try
ing to do: ''The statute makes
it the duty of the commissioner to
collect and compile all reliable data
and information concerning the
climate. soil and various resources
OF the state, its agricultural, horti-
cultural, mineral, timber and
grazing lands and industries, and
the development thereof. together
with host of other things, the
mere mention of which would fill
whole sheet Of the News.
"For example the requirements
OF the statute, for the year 1904
say would require the number of
acres in the state planted to wheat |
that year, the average production
per acre, the cost Of production, the
cost OF marketing, the gross profit |
and the net profit to the farmer. |
The same routine is prescribed for
all the other cereals. Hay and
grasses are in the same category,
and every product of the soil, in
all the fruits, root and gar
den truck is expected to be treated
in like manner. The livestock
Of the state is to be enumerated
and classified, their value to be
stated, how they are fed, handled
and taken care of to be noted, their
increase or decrease FROM year to
year, and the profits accruing from
the business must have place:
even the chickens and the eggs are
to be taken into account.
"The rivers and lakes of the
state, their locations and suitability
for irrigation and their power for
manufacturing and other purposes
are to be set forth.
"The irrigation canals already
their cost, their capa-
city, the acreage under them in
actual cultivation, and the acreage
not actually in cultivation, but cap
able of being irrigated, the rental
per acre of the water if they are
water selling bitches, if on the CO.
operative plan their first cost and
cost of annual repairs must be set
forth.
Next, we are expected to have
a list of every manufacturing estab-
lishment in the state. the cost; of the
plant, the various officers employ
ed. the salaries paid, the number
Of clerks, male and female and the
paid to them, the value of
on hand, the number of
workmen employed and the wages
paid, the value of the product and
The net profits of the business dur
ing the year.
"And last. but not least, the
is ordered by the sta
tute to collect information upon
The subjects of labor, it relation to
capital, the hours of labor, the earn
nings of laboring men and women,
The number of laboring men and
in the state, the nrmber
of apprentices in each trade, the
nativity of the laborers, the wages
earned and the savings from the
same. the number married, average
of members in the family
of the married, the number of
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