The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-12-16
BANKS RESOURCES
TOTAL $207,479,7a
MAKE GAIN OF $2o,o0o, 900 IN A.
SETS IN YEAR-ElGHTT NEW
INSTITUTIONS CHARTERED.
EVENTS At STATE CAPITOL
Interesting and Important Happenings
Of the Past Few Days Selected
and Arranged for the Conves-
ieace ct Busy Readero-

SL. E80.
Resources Of the state banks in Min
nesota passed the 100000, 900 mark In
the past year and now total S2O7 49,
75l21. In the same time the deposits
Increased $l6,709, 5000 and a net in
crease in resources of $40, $3.50, 26235 is
shown by figures compiled by A. H.
Turrltt1n, Superinten dent of banks
Evidences that the banks are lending
money instead of holding it and that
credit is good is contained in the state
ment that the loans and discounts in
| creased $14 1858, 513.18 since October 81,
1914
While the banking business has been
gaining with rapid strides, the number
of banks has also Increased and during
the past year eighty new banking In
situations were chartered by the state.
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New Wheat To Resist Rust.
Thirty thousand dollars is the value
of a few pecks of wheat carefully
treasured in the vaults of the Mime
sofa College Of Agriculture experiment
station. After five more generations
of breeding and selection the resulting
grain may be worth millions Of dollars
annually to wheat growers of Minneso-
ia and the Dakotas. The result for
which the station experts are striving
in their costly research work is new
strain of rust-resisting grain.
The blue stem grain which is GROVE
widely as the spring wheat crop In
the Northwest forms one side of the
family tree, whose offspring may be
the hardy and prolific one desired. Dur
UNI wheat, famous for it's rust resisting
qualities, is the other member of the
union. The problem is to combine in
! one strain of wheat the rust resisting
qualities of the durum and the large
yield of the blue stem.
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Settle On Farms.
Ten thousand and more sturdy cit5-
zens are coming into Minnesota each
; year and are set ing in the farming
communities. Each year Minnesota
brings its average of immigrant naov-
ables to higher percentage OF the
total number of carloads received, &C.
cording to figures compiled by Fred D
Sherman, immigration commissioner.
The movables are handled at the Min
nesota Transfer for the Northwest
States and reports are made each
month to the immigration department.
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Offers Useful Bulletin.
Short courses in tanning the fiery
hn0 cts
ney and the menacing furnace are OF
! fered bv Samuel D. Works, insurance
commissioner, in is department buI-
letin. The courses are intended pri-
! marily for the fire prevention officials
at the various state institutions, bal
will be found useful for all persons
in charge of buildings of any charae-
ter in which there are stoves, fur
naces, steam pipes or other apparatus
for heating.
Oats Plentiful In Martin.
Martin county handles the largest
amount of oats in its elevators. Good
, hue county is the banner unit for bar
| ley storage These facts were brought
! out in report made public by the Min-
nesota Tax Commission ON the amount
Of grain handled b. Minnesota elevators
during the year ending March I, 1915
In Martin county 2,949,749 bushels
of oats we're stored during the year
| Mobiles is second with 2,S35,969 bush
, els, and Mower third with 2,226,6Se
bushels.
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State Fire Loss Small.
The fire loss on state property since
| the state started carving its own in.