PART V. GRAIN INSPECTION DEPARTMENT. OFFICE OF RAILROAD AND WAREHOUSE COMMISSIONERS, Hon. Lon V. Stephens, Governor of Missouri: Sir The Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners, as required by law, herewith submit their report of the operations of the Warehouse Department for the year ending December 31, 1900. It is impossible to close the various accounts and complete the annual report of inspection, weighing and storage so as to comply strictly with the law, which provides that this report be filed with the Governor not later than December 31st of each year. The reports of the Chief Inspector and Warehouse Registrar are made to the office at the earliest possible moment after the close of the year. The operations of the Warehouse Department for the year 1900 were as follows: Number of cars of wheat inspected on arrival at Kansas City... 12, 215 Inspections of grain in sacks on arrival at St. Louis were: Inspection on arrival during the year 1900 as compared with similar inspections during 1899. Shipments from store, St. Louis, during 1900: By rail, wheat... By rail, corn.... By rail, oats... By rail, rye... By river, wheat. By river, corn. By river, oats. By wagon, wheat.... By wagon, corn.... By wagon, oats...... By wagon, barley.. By re-inspection, wheat... By re-inspection, oats.. By re-inspection, rye...... Total shipments for year... Wheat Balance grain in store, St. Louis, December 31, 1900: Corn..... Oats.. Rye....... Barley. Total in store at St. Louis...... Receipts of grain into store at Kansas City during 1900: Wheat, 192 cars.. Corn, 15 cars... Rye, 28 cars. Total... Bushels. 3,392, 194 461,195 27,401 4,254 25,819 3,910, 863 Bushels. 174,664 13 036 26,562 214,262 |