The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1919-08-28

ny Jay GlDSOn, commissioner OF the
department of commerce and industry
who is exercising the duties of the
former banking commissioner and al
so supervising the activities Of the
state insurance manager and the direc.
tor of insurance. Commissioner Glib
son has reduced his office expenses
more than $1,000 in the past six
months and in the same period his re-
ceipts show an increase OF several hun
dred dollars over 1918.
I'VE are endeavoring to take IA per-
s0nal interest I'm each individual bank"
reads a part of a statement of policy
issued by Mr.. Gibson. I'm several in
stances improved forms have been sug-
gested to bank directors and occasion
ally we have found ourselves able to
proffer new methods evolved both In
Idaho and In other states"
Credit for advertising the recent re-
sale of state lands at Rexburg a trans
action which netted the general fund
$1S70OO, must 90 to the department of
immigration, labor and statistics, Of
which O. II. Barber, former news
paperman, is commissioner.
Commissioner Barber has been SER
iously handicapped by lack of Office
room, but. nevertheless, he has manag-
ed to amass statistics with regard to
irrigation, farm lands, livestock and
other important strands In the Idaho
commercial fabric which will prove
immensely valuable to the seeker for
information
Vigor. efficiency and substantialET
Movement have characterized the adj
ADMINISTRATION of C. A. Elmer. commits
sioner of the department Of public In
vestments
Faced with the task OF assuming
the duties Of the former state register
and In addition experimenting the col
lection 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
Commissioner Elmer reported at ~.
cent meeting of the governors cabinet
that the collections of his department
for the seven months ending July 81
were approximately $3,0O0000 greater
than the ingatherlngs Of the same per-
iod In 1918.
Legal action Is being relied upon TO
untangle many of the state loans. Sales
already have been made i'm several
instances and there are now Al cases
in the courts which will be carried 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 ac-
ton ON the part of a cautious land
board. Concentration of authority in
the hands of the present investments
commissioner has prevented interior.
ence of this particular character, save
in, unusual instances.
Many mortgages so heavily encum-
bered that their character had become
more than dubious have been cleared
and other unfortunate loans either
have been foreclosed or rewritten on
the basis Of sane valuation of the
property involved.
Strikingly comprehensive are the du.
ties which were assumed by Miles
Cannon, commissioner OF agriculture
xyiAn No aufs, Il
April l. Every product poured from
Idaho's generous horn of plenty re-
ceives his attention AMI IS per cent
of the entire population Of the state
will he reached by one or another of
the activities he supervises. Under his
direct jurisdiction comes property in
agricultural lands and livestock syal
ued at 1896, 100000.
BY cooperating with the university
extension department with recently
appointed board of agricultural adj.
yisers. Commissioner Cannon has di.
rect access to all of the states varied
agencies Of food productions and thru
them, of course, reaches every Ida.
no community. J. II. Fields of En-
NETT, John A. Brown of Twin Falls
Dean Il. ]. Iddings of Moscow, Hugh
Sproat of Boise. Clay Vance Of Mac
kay, George Butler Of American Falls
Charles l.. Trigg of Occur d'Alene
Ray W. FELTON, Of Boise and Leo Mar
stres of Meridian are the nine members
of the state advisory board.
Consideration of departmental
achievements on behalf of the farmer
produces a succient. itemized nara
tive to the effect that grades have been
established and advertised all over the
United States on Idaho potatoes. hay
grain, apples. prunes and cherries |
that the Idaho farmer has been pro-