Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-12-30

The Lyon County Taxpayers asso.
citation has been formed. Its purpose
is to take up with the state tax com
mission matters of taxation.
For consideration of $22,5OO.
Franklin Goheen, OF Canton, Ohio
has transferred TO James II. Parriott
the Mulligan group of claims in Osce-
ola district
oNe@~~~~@S@~@@~%~~s@
reau force available at once for the
work Of the commission.
! uiing the past few months gen
eral comprehensive survey has been
made by the bureau Of the whole in.
dustrial field. with a view to having
Immediately available to the commits
sion, If needed, the general facts of
4 the processes of manufacture, organi-
cation and dominant financial control
in any line OF industry. A large card
index system. showing the directors
Of the principal industrial. railroad
and public utility corporations. in
surance companies and banks, has
also been completed in line with this
purpose. This preliminary work has
revealed that there are approximate
ny $500 corporations. exclusive Of
those under the jurisdiction OF the
Interstate commerce commission
which have capital stock or bonded
and other Indebtedness amounting TO
81, 100000 or over. and which are en-
gagged in interstate commerce, In ad-
dition TO many smaller corporations
which wall likewise come within the
jurisdiction of this commission. Over
one-thlrd OF these corporations have
voluntarily furnished TO the bureau
upon request reports as TO their imam
cial condition. organization and other
valuable facts, to be at the disposi-
zion OF the commission upon its or
ganization.
During the past year the bureau
, has been engaged in number of ex'
tensive investigations, most of which
we're made at the direction of con
, gress Reports on the taxation OF
/. corporations, covering the tax move
q ment of the United States in 1872
I and the system of corporate taxation
!. In force in the mountain and Pacific
: states, were issued during the year
A report covering the conditions OF
production. wholesale distribution
and prices in the lumber industry
as well as the results of a special In
!. vestigation into the shingle and lum
: Der industry of the state of Wash
ington, was made public.
n At present the full force of specia
|. agents, attorneys, statisticians AM
d other employees are exerting ever!
A. effort to complete the remaining
:. work of the bureau before the organ
a ization of the trade commission. Fl
n nal reports on the tobacco industry
# on farm machinery associations, o.
state corporate taxation, and on con
!. petitive conditions in the retail lun
= Der trade, are to be issued in tn
~ immediate future. Special reports o
\ the fertilizer industry and on the II
=. vestigation made under the resoll
:, ton of the United States senate
:, to certain alleged determinations !
the Oklahoma oil fields are bein
), rapidly brought into shape for publ
!. cation. The investigation which IN
:, bureau has been making into IN
!, economic character and facts OF IN
system of resale price MAINTENANCE
: |. e., the practice of manufacture
and distributors to fix the price
:, which retailers or other dealers
!, their products shall sell to consur
- ers or other purchasers rapid
~ advancing; and the investigation o
ing made into the divergence
"a state laws relating to foreign corpo
n atoms, with the purpose of securir
~ a more uniform system, with Its q
,,v tendant benefit to the business wor
no and to the public. is nearing compl
30 tion.
es with the completion of these !
re- ports, the eleven years work OF u
to bureau Of corporations will clos
ep- During that time this bureau n
lis made over forty reports on the va
ed, GUS Investigations of the largest
sti- dustries in the country, and In adj
ed, tion has been OF constant assistan
bu- to other branches of the governme