The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-06-02

state college, or Agriculture and Me-
chanic Arts issues quarterly bulletins.
800 in number each issue. The Min
nesota and Dakota Farmer, issued
twice each month, circulation 40, 900,
and at present rate will be $1,000 in
two years. The weight at the present
issue is from 6,99S to 1874 pounds.
The s. D. s. c. Collegian, issued month
ly, circulation 500. Poultry paper to
be issued in spring, circulation, 10000.
Postoffice employees: Postmaster,
assistant postmaster, four clerks, two
city carriers, and must have another
within a year; five rural free delivery
carriers, who serve an aggregate pop
ulation of 1886 patrons.
Receipts of postofice ten years ago
were $5,646.19 (gross).
Receipts during past year $1,000
were $~16,594.33.
Receipts during month of December
1909, $5,1S5, or almost as much as
the receipts for the entire year ten
years previous.
Department pays $3.50 annual rental
for present room occupied by postof-
flee. This room is entirely inadequate
for the demands. The lobby is often
so overcrowded that patrons can not
gain entrance to receive their mail.
When the Farmer and Bulletins are
received for mailing the real portion
Of the is SO crowded that the
dispatch of mail is delayed and Of
flee work is otherwise hampered. An
other lease of this room can not be
secured, and there is not another
building that can be secured.
All mail on the Brookings-Gettys-
burg line is transferred through this
postoflce.
Examinations for railway postoffice
clerks, rural free delivery carriers,
census enumerators, and other civil
service employees are held in this
building, and there is not room to &C
%commodate them. There should be a
separate room in which to hold these
examinations.
Room should be supplied for the
commandant at the agricultural col
lege, who is stationed here as trainer
of the national guard.
Geo. N. Breed,
Postmaster.
Bookings, S. Oak, March 4, 1910.
Dear SIR
l desire to present for your consid-
Grafton and urge upon your attention
some Of the important facts and cor
ditions which render it not only de-
sirable but necessary, that a public
building should be Immediately pro-
vided for the use of the government
in the city of Bookings. This city
has now an approximate population Of
5000 people, including the college stu
dents, and is located on the main line
Of the Chicago ard North-W Western
railway from Chicago to the Black
Hills and at the junction of the Gettys-
burg and Redield branch, making it
an important railway terminal in the
amount of mails handled and passen-
ger and freight traffic. The railway
company, in recognition of the impor-
lance of the city, has made valuable
permanent improvements in a fine
substantial station, roundhouse,
freight house and other structures, ag-
gregating in value over $4,000.
The aggregate amount Of railway
business, including passenger and
freight business, transacted per an
mum is 5000, 600, showing the great
activity in all lines of commercial
business. There are located upon the
railway right of way six grain eleva-
tors, with a capacity for 10000 to
$4,000 bushels of grain each, and also
coal, lumber and material yards and
implement warehouses, fully represent
ing every line of manufacturers. There
is now under construction an inter
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place with Sioux Falls and other
towns in the Sioux valley to the south.
Showing the prominence of this city
as a financial center, there are two
national banks and one state bank,
with combined capital and surplus of
about 100000 and deposits aggregat-
ing 81, 200. All lines Of general
business are fully represented with
stocks of goods invoicing as high as
$40, 900 to $4,000 each.
In the way of manufacturers, we
have a first class -four mill valued at
$40,0 00, having an output of $50 bar
rels a day; two cigar factories; one
automobile tire protector factory. turn.
ing out a product of $4,000 a year
hesidas q largo numhor of Machine