The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 16, 1925, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT STATE OWNS USELESS JUNK, LUND REPORTS Highway Department Inves $60,000 in Worthless TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1925 No more than 100,000 seals can be taken from Behring Strait in one year, according to government or- ders. Z S VICTIM agricultural products including live THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE stock. Milhollan has already confer- a l2e1.06, the latter fund including the Jann | instalments on the principals jof the loans as well as the int te red with Washington in regard to | this. a OVER $700,000 ee ae COMMITTEE TO |..tsrtsatzetacoeres te _ INDUSTRY BOND PROBE RATES the purpose of working in Washing- LABOR MEETING ‘No Profit Has Will Assist Interstate Com- ton with the interstate commerce commission's expefts in planning an From Operations of N. D. mission in Revising outline of the procedure to be fol- lowed by the general committee. | Commissioner McChord of the in- terstate commerce commission has been appointed chairman of a new jdivision of the interstate commerce ‘commission for the conduct of this compensaiton bureau is taking a ive part at the convention of |the North Dakota State Federation lof Labor, heing held at Fargo. | As the’ chairman of the organiza- Material, Auditor Says The state of North Dakota has in vested $60,000 in , much of which is ‘described as “worthless, useless and incomplete,” in an audit report compiled by O, B, Lund of the state auditing devartm from Nov 1, 1923, to Dee. 31, 1 material ‘ranges from handles and spades to equipment for the motion picture machine there is much materia t ean used but, the auditing depat , & great deal cannot be s even junk Counties Net Buying Beginning in 1¥1¥ the equipment department of the state highway commission began receiving surplu war material from the federal gov ernment. The original use such material c be highway commission and uinder to counti within The counties, however, a not overbidding for the mater the auditor's record shows that an accou a 13-ton Holt tractor in of Bottineau county is The value of the | used manufacture of airplanes and | was to, to | tive Forence Kane (left), beautiful Broklyn €N. wo'y Was found in a vacant lot ni have decided, by her way home tat Y.) r her home. ¢ a degenerate who attacked her at night from a theater party w she wa h other girl estate bonds issued a month ago. e mutilated | in, detec on | Industries |tion committee he reported that the |work to be taken up by his commit- ‘tee would be the laying of plans for the cooperation of the North Dakota | Federation with the American Feder- n in the nation-wide organization : y that the latter organization is fi us similar to a membership drive, Mr. | MeDonald said. No profit having resulted from the|” y. ‘T. O'Connell of Bismarck was Liliana to will be the nount of $717,- Hail! by the stare | asa at nt i ‘ is due “uly Lee operations of the state industries,! ,,,ointed on the committee super- the interest payment will be met by) \ising the Fargo Labor temple. Frank the tax fund. | Milhollan, president of the board of Real estate Londs are snowing the | railroad commissioners, is a member greatest increase, having grown about | of the executive board. $500,000 4 month. Total interest on | bonds for one year is to 50. A total of $4,500,000 Londs been sued for the have | state-owned | -operated flour mill and elevator | at Grand Forks—$3,000,000 for con- struction of the mill and $1,500,000} for its operation. The semi-annual | interest payment un the construction bonds is $42,000 and on the operating bonds $44,000. Since the mill has earned no profit the $86,000 comes) trom tax receipts. The first of the bonds issued for Freight Charges A committee of 15 state railroad commissioners with Frank Milhollan, president of the North Dakota com- mission, as a member and a commit- tee of nine state commission freight experts have been appointed to assist interstate commerce commission in its general freight rate structure investigation which was ordered by the Hoch-Smith congressional resolu- the tion. The investigation has for its pur- pose the ironing out of all rate prob- lems and a revision of the rates on Eat it for any meal proceeding. Insure! Into your crop you put all necessary material anc! labor to produce the max: imum profit per acre, Then, in a mo- ment’s time, your crop is beaten flat and ripped to shreds ‘by a hail storm. EXTRA SFRVICE TIRES There is no har- vest—and no profit. And your expenses to date are a total loss unless you car- For 14 years this sign on hail insurance the construction of the state mill and | | our store has stood for = =a quality tires and quality with H. T. Murphy. Better ask us for in- TAKE SLUMP Mules of Cattle, total nnounced service. & formation and rates today. elevator are due Jan. 1, 1937, an issue . of $500,000. The next maturity in| | this class is in 1942, when $1,200,000 | must be paid. The remainder of the $3,000,000 issue matures in 1947. ‘The largest amount of bonds issued is in the rural credits department of the Bank of North Dakota. A large| part of the interest payment is met from the payments of persons to whom loans were made, although it | has been necessary for the state te | raise money by tax levies, because of | poor loans made in the first series of bonds. The semi-annual interest | charge on rural credits bonds is $493,486.25. The amount _ of bonds} now outstanding is $24,859,000, the 3, including the issue of April 1. — i . interest charge being $1,: 3, including the issue of April Wh / ll th Low Pressure Balloons become due on maturity are issues totaling $210,000 on July 1, 1931. comfort and cushioning you get out of balloon tires depends on how soft you ords the aterial to ording to. official cost of the surplus war is nothing except as to g and freight expense. This method of dumping surplus material onto the state has already cost t state $60,000, a large part of which | can never be retrieved, Mr. Lund declares. | Freight Cost High The government has a circuitous way of shipping surnlus mate Most of the supplies received are shipped long and unnecessary d tances before they reach their de tination, Thus a great deal of the} x aed material received here may 1 i hundreds and hundreds of mile b cost of handling and shipping be- ing charged to the receiver A large shipment of material may be consigned to the state of North Dakota from Maryland. The ship- ment starts at Maryland, is carried | with other shipments to Texas, then| to Oklahoma, then possibly t other stopp place, and. f'.ns reaches it By the time the shipment ate high way commission the charges have amounted to a sum which m far ubove the amount that can be the material. more, the highway com- n has no choice as to the kind aterial it shall receive. Surplus material is sent in unassorted ship-| Tenants Hag ments and every shipment contains | Owners ri mate: not be used or] a ericans Beef cows Other dairy Swine, total Breeding sows The tabulation showed: is Report County Is Slope Lahr Motor Sales Co. MURPHY The Man Who Knows Insurance. for principal crops 1924 1919 15,626 1, (®)—Farn have 10,000 in the tion of the f tod rm and buildings in Slope county ued at 743 at the time o hile, upon completion census, the land: buildings were valued at only © 053. The Most food for least money Oats — Acres Bushels Wheat Acres. Bushels ind | Barley — Acres week Bushels Acres. Bushels seed - Acres Rye — 10,095 GIRL WHO HATED AMERICA TO BE BURIED HERE valuations of nd 1920, res 491,438 other issues outstanding run as far ahead as July 1, 19 The state treasury has $72, in it bond interest payment fund to meet the t due on Bank of North bonds. There . is $111,789.86 in the mill and elevato: construction bond fund, and 409 in the mill operating. bend fund, while the r estate bond: in- | tax terest and maturity fund is $866,- e lust note expre aversi | and the and th were $1,070,- KEEP PACE WITH PROGRESS! J. S. Sagmiller, a farmer in Sioux ‘County, recently bought an airplane in which to travel: between his ranch and Selfridge. 608 farms in the county compared to in 1920, the census figures show. igures on the operation of farms are: 4 There are now Duluth, June 16 Operated by: 1925 1820) raat } Managers .... 2 6) ey Miss Superior, uicide May A Wi in a even sold for junk, according to the auditing department Items Not in Books The equipment department of th» highway commission was originally created for the purpose of receiving and distributing surplus war mater jal offered by the federal govern- ment for use in construction and maintenance: pf highways. Funds for the financing of the department are used from the 10 per cent fund and earnings and sales are turned into this fund. Many of the items received from the government are not for, says the auditor’s report. “The item of tents is one of the largest, showing a shortage of 89. These tents are being sold at from $15 to $25 a piece. This would mean a shortuge of approximate $1,500 for tents, based on the selling price. “The sales records are so incom- plete thut an attempt to many of the small er urticles was found impossible. “While the minutes of the high- way commission for April 24 record @ resolution passed by the commis- sion reducing the employees of the equipment department to one book- keeper, one store room salesman, one mechanic and one night watchman, said change to become effective June 1, 1924, this reduction was not put into effect and with funds ex- pended for the maintenance of the equipment department the transac- tions of same should be more com- plete,” continues the renort. “There are no officers or em- ployees of the equipment depart- ment bonded, although they have charge of the selling of the surplus war materials, collect considerable eash, buy and exchange automobiles and other property apparently with- out consulting anyone. Tax Methods s a whole we consider the busi- ness methods of the equipment de- partment handled in a lax manner,’ the report concludes. The other two departments of the highway commission, the highway operating department and the motor vehicle registration department, were given Lund’s 0. K. A legislative committee,’ appointed at the recent session to investigate the buying of surplus material, re- ported that the material held ‘now by the highway commission should be closed out before other material is accepted. Chief Engineer Black of the high- way commission said today: “We are expecting more surplus material, in- ciuding many trucks and_ tractors which we can use in our own work. Of course, much of the material we receive is used by the commission, while some is sold to counties and other material is useless. Since we y the freight on the material ve I believe that the trans- action is a good thing for us.” Material on Hand The auditor's report shows 22 gov- ‘ernment cars on hand having an es- timated value of $2,307.86; four gov- ernment tractors estimated at $392.- 56: one 10-ton road roller, $269.60; and 39 government trucks, $7,793.51. The inventory of equipment was taken by the 19th legislative assem- bly this year. “It is impossible to arrive at the cost price or any actual value of these items at this time from the records and the amount set up in ‘the statements f$ a conservative es- ;tigate of the present value,” the jitor’s report declares. ‘en government and trucks “were sold’for $1,920 and 11 govern- ment tractors were sold for $4350. The inventary of miscellane- ae government equipment, . besides. itomobile equipment, fills 48 iol ig of the repost. ‘ ‘STRONG! 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