The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-08-29
Increased Efficiency From all
Departments at Less Cost
Reported BY Officers Operat-
ing Under Davis Reorganiza-
ton.

ton.
Larger receipts and decreased office
expenses have been the outstanding
features OF reports recently made by
Jay Gibson, commissioner OF the de-
partment OF commerce and industry,
who is exercising the duties OF the
former banking commissioner and also
supervising the activities OF the state
insurance manager and the director
OF insurance. Commissioner Gibson
has reduced his office expenses more
than $lUUu in the past six months and
in the same period his receipts show
An increase OF several hundred dollars
over lYlS.
We are endeavorlng to take per-
Sonal interest in each individual
bank" reads part OF statement OF
policy issued by MIR. Gibson. In sew
eral instances improved forms have
been suggested to bank directors and
occasionally we have found ourselves
able to proffer new methods evolved
both in Idaho and in other states"
Credit tor advertising the recent re-
sale OF state lands at kexburg, a trans
action which netted the general fund
$Io/ wv. must 60 to the department Of
immigration, labor and statistics, of
which y. II. Barber, former news
paperman, is commissioner.
Commissioner Barber has been seri-
ousiy handicapped by lack of office
room. but, nevertheless, he has man
aged to amass statistics with regard to
irrigation, tarm lands, livestock and
other important strands in the Idaho
commercial fabric which will prove
immensely valuable to the seeker for
information.
vigor, efficiency and substantial
achievement have characterized the
administration of c. A. Elmer, com
missioner of the department of public
Investments
Collections Run High.
Faced with the task of assuming the
duties OF the former state register and
In addition experimenting the collec-
ton OF interest on all certificates of
sale of both lands and timber, a labor
thrust first upon the land board and
later upon the state treasurer, Com
missioner Elmer reported at a recent
meeting of the governors cabinet that
the collections of his department for
the seven months ending July 81 were
approximately 100000 greater than
the ingatherings of the same period
in 1918
Legal action is being relied upon to
untangle many of the state loans.
Sales have already been made in sew
eral instances and there are now AZ
cases in the courts which will be car
ried to prompt conclusion.
In other years suits have been COM
menced upon overdue loans but only
one case ever came to trial and final
sale, largely because of deterrent &C
tion ON the part of cautious land
board. Concentration of authority in
the hands of the present investments
commissioners has prevented inter
ference of this particular character,
save in unusual instances.
Many mortgages SO heavily encum-
bered that their character had become
dubious have been cleared and other
unfortunate loans either have been
foreclosed or rewritten on the basis
OF sane valuation of the property in
volved.
Agriculture Important.
Strikingly comprehensive are the
duties which were assumed by Miles
cannon. commissioner of agriculture,
when the Davis bill became effective
April /. Every product poured from
ldaho's generous horn of plenty re-
ceives his attention and IS per cent
of the entire population of the state
will be reached by one or another of
the activities he supervises. Under
his direct jurisdiction comes property
in agricultural lands and livestock
valued at 1885,, 100000.
BY cooperating with the university
extension department with a recently
appointed board of agricultural ad-
visers, Commissioner Cannon has di-
rect access to all of the states varied
agencies of food productions and
through them, of course, reaches every
Idaho community. ]. R. Fields OF
Emmett, John A. Brown of Twin
Falls, Dean E. ]. Iddings of Moscow
Hugh Sproat of Boise, Clay Vance OF
Mackay. George Butler of American
Fails, Charles L. Trigg of Occur d.
Alene, Ray w. FELTON, of Boise and
Leo Marsters of Meridian are the nine
members of the state advisory board
Consideration of departmental
achievements on behalf of the farmer
produces succint, itemized narrative
to the effect that grades have been
established and advertised all over the
United States on Idaho potatoes. hav
grain. apples, prunes and cherries;
that the Idaho farmer has been pro-
tected with market reports in rho
form Of regular bulletin service; that
capable individuals have been licensed
to weigh grain at the various bonded
warehouses in the state; that grades
inspections and tests have been made
tor all species of grain that sufficient
inspectors have been Put in the field
to guard the farmer against Injustice
that examinations have at once been.
made whenever charges OF fraudulcn,