The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-12-20
The Report OF the Postmaster. General.

=, Tho Postmaster General. in his report, places
year ended June So 1877. at $SS, ass 81. "A, and the
ef expenditures over receipts Of $685., 7s7iS
The estimated expenditure for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1872 are SS6, ~ 400; total ee
mated excess Of expenditures. over receipts Of
kessGry a. q deficiency. The total amount
6ciencies. and drawn aud available. is
@ postage stamps u Boz ~ S nexspapeE
snssIopss. Ss;s7i,500 request stamped envelopes,
81: .iss of!eial pSstsss stamps ana IL
10, AS stamped official envelopes and Wrappers
So
hitting the sb9vs supplies in the mails but two
thus summarized: Total namber Of letters Re:
sacS tine sSd fSus:
ordinary mail Letters, 2llss27 local or drop, A..
600; Of domestic origin returned from foreign
10 Postofices by proprietors Of hotels, s., iS6;
held for postage, 3l3, aga; misdirected, 67,sM;
fictitious, 1874; containing unavailable matter.
and 6,9O5 registered, letters. They are
3 i follows see oontsined as in money;
q sSns 81 contafned Deed DEEDS % ont s
leases, railroad and other passage tickets, pen
eion-certifcates. and bankoboOks; $3.50 con-
graphs; Is slS contained iewelry, clothing books,
chromos, music. merchandise, ETC.; S.0S con-
tanned receipts, bills of lading, atfdavita, alb
gtracts of title, paid notes, and Cancelled Obllga-
tions of all sorts. The amount of money taken
from letters which could not be restored to the
owners and deposited in the Treasury was $4,75A.
.ss 4s7s. IN. Of which i45sSs were addressed to
foreign nj The amount Sf fses collected
nearly II per cent. The number of registered
81
and treasury Dsp p Was ss4Ss valued At
Of valued at oas
stamped envelopes. valued at SS.l5. were lost in
transit.
Of public mail-routes in operation, there were
9,2S4 (Of which 95S were railroad, being an i'm
crease of forty-six routes of this class over the
previous year,. aggregating in length @2,sO
in annual cost, $i5,ss4,sS5. Adding the compen.
sation Of railway postofice clerks route agents,
mail-route messengers, local agents and mail
gate annual cost viii be $is5S,2s.
The service was divided as follows:
s. SIS 7i0 miles; annual cost, S.,
roa out se1 length s miles; annual
transportation. 4OS 23S miles; annual cost, $685.
969; about l6.5 cents permile.
Other routes, upon which the mails are required
to be conveyed with 'celerity certainty and Sc
curity. length, ZOO miles; annual tr.nsporta-
ton, 81 $3.50 miles; annual cost, $5.663,97O;
about 9.T cents per mile.
The annual mileage of service performed by
railway PoetOffices was 16, $500 miles; an in
crease of 1,6S8, 126 over that of last year.
The total cost of the United States ocean mail
steamship service for the year 1877 INCLUDING
$6O,OW paid from special appropriation for
&457, 5S6.53.
The report of the Appointment Office shows the
following:
Number of Postoffices established during
Number discontinued. ...................... s63
Increase OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ................ 962
Number in operation June 80 1876 So 1888
Number in operation June 3D. 1877. 81 3i5
Number filed by appointments of the Pres
1uents Low
Number filled by appointments of the Post
master-( General IS 04S