Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-12-13
THE rosT OFFCIE.

Postmaster-G General Creswcll reports
that the revenues of the Department for
the fiscal year ending june 30, ISL.
were $50, 037 .045. Il, aud the experdl-
lures S24, 800 l04,0S; showing a net
increase of revenue of SIG, 40l 81 over
the previous year There were in operation
June 30, 1871, 1851 mail routes, of an
aggregate leugth of 23S, 359 miles. OF
these 40, S34 miles in length were rail-
road routes, ana the cost per mile of trans
portation averaged 5000; 20, 1874 miles
in length were steamboat routes, the cost
per mile Of transportation averaged &c.
'5S; l6S, l9l miles in length were by
other routes, and the cost per mile Of
transportation averaging sl0.62. The
increase over the preceding year in length
of routes was 1927 miles, The new rail-
roads put in operation during the year
1871 amounted TO 7l07 making in aggre-
gate an addition in three years of 1886
miles to the 36,0lS miles in operation on
July |, 1865. The total number of letters
exchanged, during the year, with foreign
countries, 20, 295, 1893, an increase Of l.
$780, $40 over the number reported for
1870. OF this number. 10, 46l ,S6S were
sent from, and 1884 1870 were received
in the United States The number Of
complaints Of missing letters during the
year is 1900, of which 2057 were regis
tered aud 2543 unregistered. Of regis
tered letters $50 were accounted for as
received at their destination, and only
2S3 have been reported as octualy lost.
The whole number of employees in the
Department is 1854. The whole num-
Der of letters received at the dead letter
office during the year was 4,l94, 74s, of
which 22l 673 were foreign. OF this
number l,7O5,632 were remailcd to the
writers The whole number of money
order offices at present in operation is q
-452. The number of domestic money
orders issued during the year was 2,I5l,-
704, to the value of S42 1913, 1888
the amount Of commissions paid by the
public for the issue Of these was S295,-
2S6.l5. The total profit accruiug to the
Department from the money order system
since its establishment in November,
1864, have been 1897, 4l9.S6. The re-
port renews the Recommendation that
the money order system be extended to
the sub-Post Offices of the larger cities
The operation Of the money order system.
between this country and Switzerland and
Great Britain, is also satisfactory. Mr.
Creswell also urges the immediate pur-
chase Of the telegraph lines by the govern.
ment. The Department. is now prepared
TO undertake it and BY the establishment
of Post Office saving banks, would aid in
obtaining the purchase money. ....
.a.- lsi- TIE INTERIOR. ..
The Secretary Of the Interior speaks
enthusiastically Of the Indian policy of the
Government which has, during the past
two years, been productive Of the most
gratifying results The Indian tribes,
during the past year, have raised about
ten millions of dollars of agricultural pro-
ducts. There are GIG schools among the
tribes, with an average attendance Of s.
920 pupils Outrages which have occur
red by nomadic tribes 10 Arizona, New
Mexico aud Western Texas, where the
peace policy has not fully penetrated,
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