The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-11-17
TOHAVETHREE
CONGRESSMAN
WE WILL HAVE ANOTHER. SAYS
ROBINSON.
BANK DEPOSITS GROW FAST
THERE is AN INCREASE Of TEN
MILLION IN THE LAST YEAR.

Doane Robinson writing from Pierre
says that the returns from the school
census OF 1910 have been received and
tabulated by the and commissioner as
the basis OF the apportiOnment of in
terest and income of the school fund.
The total for the state is 1863, 7OS per-
sons OF school & in the organized
counties. Many regard the school
census as the urest basis for estimat-
ing the total population. Comparing
the state cenoi!s On ,9n5 with the
school census of that year shows a
ratio of 3.16 population in the organ
lied counties for every child OF school
age, and applying this unit to the
present school census and we have the
present approximate population, in
Guiding 1852 Indians as 54,SO2. 1t
Is confidently expected that the ma
tional census will confirm this figure.
The most important bearing OF the
census upon our local affairs pertains
to representation in Congress, and it
scarcely seems as If the unit could be
advanced far enough to preclude this
state from securing a third member.
Ii Congress should fix as high a unit
as 100000 we would still have the ma
jor fraction which would give us the
third member. The a%pportionment
of the state into two districtssis the
subject OF n of the referendum laws
to be voted upon at the election next
week, the question of whether we are
to have two or three congressman Is
OF immediate vital interest to our peo-
nIn Tho Cohnn1 ~ -. -
mine that We will get three, and so
the referendum on the apportionment
Will have less Importance at the polls.
1t has, however, already saved the
candidacy of Hon. Charles II. Burke,
l for had he permitted the law to go
into effect last yea his denomination
would have been defeated.
! In a general way the school census
| show continJ led growth in the central
: and western portions, but stagnation
I or decrease In the southeastern. Min
: nehaha. Lincoln and Brookings coun-
ties are exceptions to this statement,
4 each showing a good growth. Nine
3 other southeastern counties show a
slight loss.
The annual report OF Insurance Com
) missioner Basford is out and reveals
some interesting facts, particularly in
relation to the growth of business In
! this state. Ten Years. ago foreign fire
companies paid $4,000 in taxes and
) fees; this year they have paid SILT, 900.
! Business a grown faster than costs.
. Ten years ago these companies wrote
! $4,000, 900 in risks, received 1898, 900
r in premiums and paid $4,000 in los
ses. This year they have written
$40, 000, 900, received $1,724, 900 in
premiums and paid 1854 900 in losses.
Commissioner Basford recommends
that accident, hail and cyclone com
panies, organized on the mutual plan,
be required by law to create a reserve
and that the maximum Of expenses to
earnings be fixed by law. He recon-
mends further a uniform legal rate
to be fixed for fraternal life insurance.
in accordance with the experience
tables from the operation of such COM
panies; a rate that will protect the
insured and save the insurers from in
evitable bankruptcy. He warns the
legislature that the repeal OF the val
ued policy law is being agitated and
protests against such action, and be-
lieves that the legislature should ex-
anime into the wisdom of fixing fire
rates by law.
The fire marshals report shows $50
fires occurred in the state during the
year, but Z OF which were OF incen-
diary origin, as against Is the previous
year, and some credit seems due to the
vigilance OF the marshals in discour-
aging the industry OF the i~ncendiary.
Four Of the seven incendiaries Of the
last year are in the p~enitentiary. OF
the contents OF the $50 buildings
burned, the insurance exceeded the to-
tai loss by more than $4,000, while
the insurance on the buildings them
selves was more than double the total
loss. Children, in combination with
matches, caused q fires, defective
flues we're responsible for a like num-
Der and gasoline was responsible
for 81.
Despite the croakers, bank deposits
again show a tremendous inrease for
the past year. September 1, 1909. there
was SAT 900. 900 in the banks other
than national, and September 1, 1910,
there was $54, 900. 900, and there is no
doubt that the combined national and
state bank figures will reach to near
ly $50. 200, 900. The progressive growth
in bank deposits in this state for ten
years, perhaps better than any other
thing, indicates the improvement OF
financial conditions among the people.
The statement is interesting and valu-
able.
1900 $14, 1892. 9S3.71
1901 49, 1874. 491 80
1909 2S. 607, 1882
1904 30.6 l1,115.32
1903 "a. 759, 699.68
1e0e ...... 4 5 .046, 204.43
,on1 81, 76a. Ss1 .O2
6S. 1922. 999.41
1909 .......,........... as. $50 ' 100 %