INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS MINNESOTA RICH VALUE OF STATE INSTITUTIONS Forces at Work to Make S Minnesota's Farm Life REPRESENT TOTAL INVESTMENT OF $15,088,967.72. the Best in the World Prison at Stillwater Is Largest Stair in PROSPERITY OF PEOPLE IS EVI. Institution of its Kind which is to conserve Minnesota's 70,000,000,000 For the number and effectiveness DENCED BY LARGE NUMBER fcf feet of merchantable timber the Country. the agencies working for the development OF MACHINES. in order to encourage the building of agriculture and rural life, up of great wood-working industries Minnesota is at the very front among By Ralph Wheelock, the and centers which shall become states, and its rural life should State Board of Control. markets for Minnesota's farm products. loon be the best in the world. NEARLY 100,000 REGISTERED The valuation of Minnesota's 16 Foremost among the various agencies State institutions is $15,088,967.72. referred to is the Department of The game and fish commission, The average population is 9,580. which, by protecting Minnesota's wild (Agriculture of the University of Minneiota. The average number of employes is Secretary of State Schmahl Predict# life, hopes to add immensely to the The work of this department is 1,542. Average number of inmates to present $3,000,000 annual income from Citizens Will Own 160,000 Cart two-fold. With six experiment stations each employe is 6.2 and average yearly this resource. in various pa*ts of the state, it Before 1917 Closes, or One wage per employe is $562.47. 1b Solving such problems as farm management, The drainage commission and reclamation Auto to Every 17. The net cost of maintenance and operation board, which will open up right rotations, the reclaiming of institutions yearly is $1,675,119.84 new and fertile areas for thrifty and of waste areas, the elimination of net cost per inmate $174.63. By Julius A. Qchmahl, Secretary of energetic farmers. Weed and insect pests, the prevention A Good Catch The valuation of farm and garden §Vte. The live stock sanitary board, Of plant diseases, and the care and property is $235,785.81 with a profit to I know of no better criterion of the which was created to protect Minnesota's Management of lite stock. Through the state in 1914 of $99,734.64. wealth and prosperity of all classes live stock against all forms of the college of agriculture and three Some of the large telephone comp&nie# The lowest average cost per inmate CONTROLS RATE AND SERVICE of the people of Minnesota than that schools of agriculture, it is distributing disease, and has again and again raised their toll rates before the law is in the prison at Stillwater. To the of the automobile. In 1907, when the proved its worth. went into effect, and this placed th* information gathered by painstaking credit of the 1,000. or more inmates Legislature first provided for a state The state entomologist, whose duty burden upon the Commission of deter* Endeavor on the part of the six experiment Railroad and Warehouse Commission making up the prison population, the registration of automobiles, 7000 were it is to eliminate pests which afflict mining a reasonable rate after an fn« stations and other agencies. Prevents Discriminations by Railways manufacture of 21,855,415 pounds of registered. The following year it men, live stock, or crops. vestigation and hearing. In respect to and Telephone Companies. The Work Is? Complex. binding twine and $474,293.50 worth jumped to 12,000. In 1909 the registration The state highway commission and telephone and storage companies the From the foregoing statement the farm machinery was placed, and was 19,500 in 1910 the registration work of the Commission is necessarily the railway and warehouse commission Work of the department of agriculture By Charles E. Elmquist, Railroad and the bank account of the institution was 28,500 and the year 1911 both seeking to promote economical In a formative state, but there is no of the university looks like a rather Warehouse Commissioner. credited with a net profit of $350,852.30 closed with a registration of about Huestion but what the regulation will Simple thing. On the contrary this transportation, one by building One of the important branches of from the two industries. In addition 45,000. The 1911 Session of the Legislature and improving public roads, and the be beneficial to the public and corpora Work is complex and far-reaching. It our state government is the Railroad there was paid to the inmates for labor provided for a three year other by seeing that the public is well tions. Would not be very difficult to maintain and Warehouse Commission. This department in 1914 $75,000.00, which went largely period with January 1, 1912, and when served by its great shipping interests. college and schools of agriculture has been in existence since to the support of their families. Controls Weights and Measures. the department closed business on De-: The tax commission, which is wrestling even for a student body as large as 1872, and consists of three members As the largest state institution of its All scales, weights and measures cember 31, 1914, the records showed with the difficult problem of providing that of such institutions in Minnesota, who aYe elected for a term of six kind in the country—given over a line used commercially in the state, in* there were 68 500 licensed automobiles for the state's financial needs Which, last year, was more than 1,900. years. Originally its jurisdiction was of industries peculiar to the agricultural eluding track scales and the scales in Minnesota and in addition there But the department is not satisfied without imposing an oppressive load confined to the supervision of common interests of Minnesota—the Stillwater upon which grain is weighed, are un« were a large number in the hands of upon the public. With reaching annually only 1,900 out carriers, but succeeding legislatures prison and its policies are unique der the control of the Commission, dealers licensed under what is known Of the tens of thousands in Minnesota have increased its duties. At Health, Also, Carefully Guarded. in many ways. No private concern Skilled men travel over the state testing as the Dealers' Registration Act. The With all the educational opportunity directly interested in agriculture. Consequently, the present time its activities extend strives harder for a profit, none platform and smaller scales and. new triennial period commenced on and with all the assistance offered in the form of short courses, to the control over the rates and service apportions that profit with greater weighing devices railroad track January 1, 1915, and at this writing, in the development of resources, It offers special inducements to study of railroad and express companies, concern for those to be benefited, and scales are examined by experts wlsfr September 20, 1915, the registration, Minnesota's effort to build to those who cann'ot take time for the telephone companies and storage none certainly combines in the two a travel with 100,000 pound test cars exclusive of dealers, has reached 88,-, up a strong rural life would fall short warehouses. Broadly speaking, regular courses at either the college better method of thrift and uplift for &nd sufficient heavy weights. Grain 000, and there are undoubtedly a of its obligation if it neglected the or the schools. no corporation can change a rate, rule those employed. scales in the terminals are constant* thousand or two more in the hands of problems of rural health, but these or regulation without the consent of Press and Other Educational Agencies. ly supervised to insure their accuracy. the 450 dealers throughout the state The educational push behind the are amply provided for in the state the Commission, and the Commission The Commission through its grain in-] that have either not been sold or ap* board of health, which is not only country life movement in Minnesota, can after investigation make and require gpection department grades and! plications have not been received at cent, of the total registration has been however, receives tremendous additional serving to educate the people in rural the publication of reasonable weighs all grain that enters or leaveSi this department. strength from four other important places as to sanitation and the prevention made by the farmers of Minnesota. rates. the terminals and also gives the same,' of disease, but is waging active This latter registration as a whole agencies. "The press—news People Invest $84,980,000. Prescribes Lower Rates. service at many mills and elevators and energetic warfare against The Wall Street Journal, the orthodox does not cover many of the high priced find agricultural—in the whole movetalent The Commission prescribed class at interior points. The employes ar»j is a force of the first rank," the spread of disease so far as it can. financial paper of the United States, machines but it does show a safe, conservative and commodity rates in 1906 representing obliged to get fair, average samples ot Says a man actively interested in the Supplementing the work of this board published in New York City, in an issue policy on part of the farmers an average decrease of 16% per grain from the car and the inspectors^ circulated during the month of August, in purchasing good and durable machines •work. "Without the support of the is that of the Minnesota Public Health cent in the former and 10 per cent in pass Judgment upon the sample without press every other agency would lack association, a voluntary organization made the statement that the av-: and machines that will answer all the latter. These were litigated and knowing the ownership thereof., which is doing effective work for the erage price of an automobile owned purposes. immensely in effectiveness." The sustained in the Minnesota Rate The grain is weighed by men who are. gtate fair, with an annual attendance education of the people as to matters throughout the United States is about One Auto to Every 17 Citizens. Cases, as a result of which the people under a $5,000.00 bond to the stat* Of hundreds of thousands, it is estimated, of personal and public health. $980, over one-half of the cars produced At the present time the registration enjoy lower rates and the shippers and who are under close supervision. selling for less than $700. Using gives an equivalent of 200 days Activities Well Co-ordinated. comes largely from that section of have been paid refunds amounting to Information concerning the loss of tf this responsible statement as basis, university class-room work to 5,000 The splendid thing about this elaborate a Minnesota south from a direct line about $2,750,000.00 up to the present grain in transit is furnished shippers* itudents in such subjects as dairy and machinery for the development the people of Minnesota now have $84,980,000 across the state from Brainerd but the time. This service is of utmpst importanceto Animal husbandry, live stock marketing, of Minnesota's agriculture and rural invested in automobiles. It applications from the Northern section In 1913 the Commission made and the producers and dealers because life, is that all the parts work in harmony, can be positively stated that there is farm mechanics, and crop improvement. are coming in quite rapidly and: published distance tariff freight rates it insures fair and impartial grades practically little or no charge as The Minnesota Public Library supplementing the labors of a indicate that rapid strides are being for all classes and commodities moving and weights. Practically the sam»t credit against these machines and that Commission, through its traveling one another and making definite made in both the agricultural wealth within the state and they are now service is given to hay and straw, progress. the entire item is one that is exclusive libraries and other forms of service of that section as well as in the improvement being used by all of the railroads except which reaches the terminals. Alt' property of the owners. places well selected reading within It is no wonder then that the state's of roads. the Chicago Great Western and commission merchants who deal hi' This stupendous amount and growth 4 reach of every rural community, and is board of immigration, a thoroughly Minnesota is now about the ninth the Minneapolis & St. Louis. grain and agricultural products are licensed shows better the prosperity of Minnesota co-operated with in this by a superVisor efficient agency for the peopling of state in the Union in the number of, by the state and the Railroad than any other one item that of school libraries in the office Minnesota's open country, has been Regulates Telephone Service. I. licensed automobiles. The people of and Warehouse Commission is permitted of can think of and inasmuch it has come the state department of public instruction. remarkably successful in securing Many questions arise affecting stations, the state are calling for them faster by law to investigate any com*, from the soil of the state within the agents, spur tracks jfnd the service The Minnesota State Art settlers. Its problem has been to tell than they can be delivered from the plaints that may be filed by interested last eight years, people from other Commission has placed within reach effectively the facts about Minnesota's given by freight and passenger factories. Before 1915 closes Minnesota a# parties and to make such decision Of states desiring to invest in Minnesota Minnesota's farmers, at a nominal resources and the efforts being trains. The control over telephone will have very near 100,000 machines justice and equity require^ lum, sets of plans for farm-houses as real estate and make homes in this made to aid Minnesota's people to companies was effective on July 1st registered and before the triennial state, will not ponder long in their reflection they ought to be, and thereby has set get the most out of such resources.! and over storage warehouses on Octo-i period closes on December 31, as to the actual wealth of the going an educative influence which This it has solved in a thorough-going' ber 1st. The law is very broad and 1917, the people will own in the neighborhood Pens, inks and pencils at the soil of the state. From the applications eventually will add tremendously to manner by judicious advertising and gives the Commission ample power to of 160,000 machines, equivalent Press office. the on file in this office I can make, satisfactions of life on the farm. the personal contact of its commissioner regulate service, prevent discriminations. to about one machine to every a safe. estimate that about thirty per. with the people of other states. and enforce, reasonable charges. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS Developing Rural Resources. seventeen-citizens of the state. All of these educational opportunities A Future of Great Promise. are being supplemented by efforts Minnesota's future, then, shines on the part of the state to develop its with promise because it is building, physical resources and the great industries its basic industry on sound principles, based upon them. (And even giving people to the rural places «nd these efforts, by the way, have an educational to the people of the rural places an value.) This is seen in a opportunity— Whole group of boards, commissions, To make a good living from the Aftd officials, as follows: soil. The dairy and food department, supervising To rear their families carefully and 900 creameries with an annual well. output of $30,000,000, and seeking To be of service to their communities. to promote the growth of the leave life dairy industry by a large and active And, in the end, to than when tbap •taff. their acres richer tcoV possession. The forestry board, the aim of Paints Wall Paper PHARMACY Toilet Article.s a The Only Complete Drug and H-4 Wall Paper 5tock 'King of the Forest' in the City 3 *,V MAIL ORDERS ARE PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO KEEP THIS AD—IF YOU CAN NOT COME IN PERSON ORDER BY MAIL LAWRENCE'S PHARMACY A Registered Pharmacist always in charge. INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINNESOTA yt,, S. N. RUBIN. Mgr. BS? 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