Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1919-09-04
STORY OF NEW FORM OF STATE
GOVERNMENT
SECOND INsTALLMENT

.tASS eApSIStS nave Deen the out
standing features of reports re.
csatly made by Jay Gibson, commits
sioner of the department of COM
merce and industry, who is exercis-
ing the duties of the former bank.
ing commissioner and also supervis-
ing the activities of the state insur-
ance manager and the .lirestor tf
Insurance. Commissioner Gibson has
reduced his office expenses more
than $1,000 in the past six months
and in the same period his receipts
show an increase of several hundred
dollars over 1918.
1--WE are endeavoring to take a
personal interest in each individual
bank, reads part of statement
of policy issued by Mr.. Gibson I'm
several instances improved forms
have been suggested to bank direc-
tors and occasionally we have found
ourselves able to proffer new meth.
DDS evolved both in Idaho and in
other states
Credit for advertising the recent
resale of state lands at Rexburg, a
transaction which netted the general
fund $4,000, must go to the de-
partment of immigration, labor and
statistics. of which o. H. Barber, a
former newspaperman, is commits
sioner
Commissioner Barber has been
seriously handicapped by lack of Of
flee room. but, nevertheless, he has
managed to amass statistics with
regard to irrigation. farm lands.
livestock and other important
strands in the Idaho commercial fab
ric which will prove immensely val
liable to the seeker for information.
Vigor. efficiency and substantial
achievement have characterized the
administration of c. Elmer, COM
missioner OF the department of pub,
lie investments
Faced with the task OF assuming
the duties of the former state regis
ter and in addition experimenting
the collection of interest on all GER
tificates of sale of both lands and
timber labor thrust first upon the
land board and later upon the state
treasurer, Commissioner Elmer re-
ported at a recent meeting of the
governors cabinet that the collec
lions of his department for the sew
en- months ending July 81 were APP
proximately s3,000.0O0 greater than
the ingatherings of the same period
in 1918.
Legal action is being relied upon
to untangle many of the state
loans. Sales already have been made /
in several instances and there are
now AZ cases in the courts which |
will be carried to prompt conclu-
sion.
In other years suits have been 1
hsen commenced upon overdue loans
but only one case ever came to trial ,
and final sale, largely because OF
deterrent action on the part of a
cautious land board. Concentration
Of authority in the hands of the
present investments commissioner
has prevented interference of this
particular character, save in I'M
usual instances.
Many mortgages so heavily en-
numbered that their character had
become more than dubious have
,een cleared and other unfortunate
oans either have been foreclosed orr
'ewritten on the basis of sane
7aluation of the property involved.
Strikingly comprehensive are the e
iuties which were assumed by Miles
Cannon. commissioner of agricul-
ure, when the Davis bill became
affective April 1. Every product pour
ID from Idaho's generous horn of
,lenty receives his attention and 65
percent OF the entire population of
he state will be reached by one or
mother OF the activities he super
rises. Under his direct jurisdiction g
omes property in agricultural lands
md livestock valued at 1895 100000
BY cooperating with the univer- I
ity extension department with a I
ecently appointed board of agricul- 8
ural advisers. Commissioner Cans n
ION has direct access to all of the 9
tate's varied agencies Of food pro-
uctions and drought them, of i
curse, reaches every Idaho Com u
nunity J. r. Fields OF Emmett, G
ohm A. Brown of Twin Falls, Dean
!. J. Iddings OF Moscow, Hugh n
proat of Boise, Clay Vance OF Mac u
ay, George Butler Of American u
'alls, Charles L. Trigg of Occur d.
.lene, Ray W. FELTON, OF Boise and
go Marsters Of Meridian are the
- y,far1hers OF the state advisory n