The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-01-06

the city is better qualified to feel that
the past year has been a most sue
cessful one. The various undertak-
ings fathered and financed by that
body, also others approved, reflect
most creditably upon its personnel.
The Dakota Deaconess Hospital and
free public Carnegie library are be-
coming popular than ever. The
former, with it's excellent staff of ply
sicians and nurses, is a drawing card
within a radius of many miles. The
library, with complete sets of fiction
and reference books, is a mecca of in
struction for all Brookings.
State College and the city public
schools are enjoying record-breaking
attendances and never in the history
of the city were educational conditions
in general better han they are at pres
ent.
The Building and Loan Association
is pr~osperously making plans for 1916.
Already $40, 500. 90 has been loaned as
first mortgages for this year.
Bank Deposits Heavy
Brookings is listed as having a pop
ulation of 3,416. On November 10, not
counting money from outside banks,
there was an average of $511.O0 de-
posted in the three banks of the city
for every man, woman and child in the
city limits. In the county the total de-
posts amounted to SO, ZOO, 1854, of
which about sixty per cent were in the
city banks. The per capita deposit in
the county was $4,000 but it is be-
lieved it is even greater as 1916 is
ushered in, the farmers having sold 4
considerable amount of their grain.
The deposits in the county exceed
those of last year at this time by sew
eral thousands. giving material proof
of the wealth which abounds in Brook
ings and Bookings county, and the
stability of it's banking institutions.
Conditions in the County
The assessed valuation of the coun-
ty, including both real estate and per-
sonal property, is s34,1O2, $500. The
total tax levied in 1915 which will be
paid this year will amoun to 1885,
401.16. In the city the real estate is
valued at $1,459, $4,000 and the tax re-
ceipts will amount to $31,2S3.S2. The
personal property valuation is placed
at 1892, 906.0 90 and the taxes from that
source will tatol $15,497.86. These
figures reveal an interesting point in
that it costs a resident of the city .10S
more for taxes than it does a rural tax
payer.
During the month of December
County Treasurer C. A. Gullick paid
out $92, 066 81, which included $4,000
for court house bonds and $4,000 for
bridge warrants. According to Sheriff
Fred S. Miner the net delinquent per
sonal taxes to be collected yet amount
to $2,O38.6O.
Clerk of Courts John A. Lunden re-
ports that during the year 1915 there
were 1873 marriages in Bookings coun
ty. Births totalled 355, almost one a
day, while there was not a third as
many deaths, only LOT. Nine divorces
were also allowed during the past year.
Building Operations of 1915
During 1915 building operations in
the city totaled about 1913, SO0.0 90.
Fifty-two new residences were erected
while a dozen or more were substan-
TALLY improved. The cost of the new
homes reached 1856, 650.00 while four
teen extensions and Improvements cost
SIG, $4,000.
Perhaps the most notable building
operation of the year was the starting
of the new SIS, 00O.O0 girls dormitory
at State College. Already the founda-
ton has been laid, the basement exca-
waited and the first floor partially laid,
making an expenditure of 100000 or
SO, 100000 of the cost of construction.
Next in line comes that of the city
lighting and heating plant, mentioned
above. The Standard Oil Co. spent
$4,000 in improvements on their
plant here while the Farmers Cooper
alive Co. spent $4,000. improvements
to the Bank of Brookings totaled S.
900 and other improvements are as
follows: G.. A. Richards $1,100, Hans
Olson $1,100, John Croft $1,000, John
Alton 5000, John Whitmus $3.50, A. c.
Longman $500, H. G. Williams 5000, E.
C. Nolan $1,000, Wilbur Johnson $500,
A. J.. Amundson $500, Thos. Tinker
81, 500, D. S. Palmer 5 l $500, Geo. Etting