The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-01-20

adjusted. The petition OF the people
OF Winfred for Il loading platform
has been recently received and is
low receiving attention. The petit
ton of the people of Sturgis for an
express office to be established in
the business portion of the city has
been adjusted by the establishment
of the office as requested in the
complaint. Complaints have been
filed for the establishment of sta
ton agents at Revinia, Keldron,
Crandall and Caputa, and these are
now receiving attention. A petition
was filed by the Great Northern
Railway Company to close the sta
tions at Bancroft, Grover, Osceola,
and Stockholm on the ground that
there was not sufficient business to
justify the maintaining of these sta
tions during the winter. The cons
plant was considered by the board
and after full investigation. was de-
MED. A station house and agent
had by order of this board been es-
tablished at Osceola just previous to
the filing of this complaint to close
these stations. A station agent was
by order of this board established at
Wetonka. A complaint was receiv-
ed January 4, 1911, from the citi-
zens of Troy for a station agent at
that point. The only complaint for
station house and agent which has
been denied by this board was at
Oral, in Fall River county, where
the business done was clearly insult
ficient to justify the building of
new station and the installation of
station agent. In this instance,
however. temporary station has
been established, and station agent
will be placed in charge May /.
Physical Valuation.
Pursuant to the provision of
Chapter 211 of the Session Laws of
1907, the Board of Railroad Com
missioners has completed the physi-
cal valuation of the property of rail-
way companies in this state. Since
the completion Of the original ap-
praisal, the commission has been en-
gagged through its engineering de-
partment in bringing the physical
valuation down to date by adding to
and including therein all extensions,
betterments and improvements which
have been made since the original
inventory was taken by field inspec-
ton made by this Commission and
its engineers so that the books of
this commission in each year will
show the actual physical valuation
of all of the railway properties as
1t existed during the current year.
This physical valuation is of more
than ordinary Importance to the peo-
pie OF this state and is of special i'm
portance on the trial of rate cases
and has enabled the state board of
assessment and equalization to as
certain the assessable value Of rail-
way properties.
Side Tracks and Connecting Tracks
Seven Complaints.
In all seven complaints have been
filed with this commission since the
conclusion of it's annual report for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1910
for the construction of side tracks
and connecting tracks. Hearings
have been had on all of these COM
plants, and orders issued for the
construction of all side tracks and
connecting tracks with the single ex-
ception of that embodied in the
complaint of Mr.. w. v. Lowe, of
Sioux Falls, who wished q private
track constructed by the Illinois
Central Railroad Company across
the land belonging to the Sioux Falls
Quarry Company to his quarry. In
this instance the commission denied
the complaint for want of jurisdic-
tion because it has not authority to
order the construction of a private
track nor has it authority to order
the construction of public track
| over property intervening between
the line of railway and that owned
+, by complainant. In other words,
there was quarry located between
the right of way of the line of the
| railway company and the quarry of
the petitioner, so that it would have
been necessary to order the construc-
ton of side track over the land
of the Sioux Falls Quarry Company
to the quarry of Mr.. Lowe. This
board would have no jurisdiction in
such case, but the matter was tax
en- up with the railroad officials at
Chicago on July 9Th for adjustment
| without success.
In connection with these side
tracks and connecting tracks, it is
! necessary under the decisions of the
courts when making an order for