Annual Report of the Warehouse and Scale Inspector. Honorable Board of Railroad Commissioners, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Gentlemen I have the honor to submit herewith my annual report of the inspection of warehouses and scales for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903: Total number of elevators and warehouses inspected.. Total number of bonded warehouses. 854 1603 854 549 Total number of unbonded warehouses. 305 Total amount of bonds given by warehouse men doing business in the state, said bonds being on file with the State Auditor. .... $2,494,000 Total capacity in bushels of all warehouses and elevators in state 12,000,000 Total number of scales found out of order and corrected... Total number of scales condemned....... 206 4 Total number of warehouses found doing business without the proper state license, license fee being subsequently collected from them. 87 I desire to call the attention of the Commissioners to the report on bonded warehouses. In the report for the year ending June 30, 1901, there were but 209 warehouses bonded; in this report there are 549 warehouses bonded, an increase of 340 bonded warehouses. I am inclined to believe that there are no warehouses doing a storage business without the proper bonds required by the laws of the state. According to the report for the year 1901 there were 709 licenses issued; this year there are 854 reported as having obtained a license, making an increase over 1901 of 145. I believe that the license fee has been secured from all firms doing a warehouse business in the state. I would also state that I have found a much less number of scales out of order than in previous years. This I think is due largely to the fact that all grain buyers are aware that your inspector might call upon them at any time for a test of their scales, hence they have been very particular to properly care for and adjust their scales. Respectfully submitted, D. C. RICKER, Warehouse and Scale Inspector. Licensed Warehouses, Bonded and Unbonded. There were issued by the Commission during the year ending June 30, 1903, 854 warehouse licenses, of which warehouses so licensed 549 were bonded and were, therefore, permitted to store grain for a compensation, and 305 were unbonded. This is an increase over the year 1902 of 51 licensed warehouses, and an increase over that year of one bonded warehouse. Fees to the amount of $854 were collected from the issuance of warehouse licenses and remitted to the State Treasurer. Following is a complete list of all elevators and warehouses in the state, with a statement of the capacity of each, which were licensed to do a warehouse business during the year ending June 30, 1903. Those marked with a cross (x) are bonded warehouses and are entitled to store grain and receive a compensation therefor: |