The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-11-23
FACTS AND FIGURES.
Summary of the Postmaster Generals
Report.
Statistics Which are Interesting and
Worth Reading.
The Postmaster -sseaeral,. Report.


ing Is a synopsis of the postmaster
generals report and financial state
ment: The total expenditures made on
account Of service for the fiscal year
1856; the revenues were $50, 1856, 1897; the
excess of expenditures on account OF
fiscal year over receipts for same period,
$2,4Sl, ,l29. This deficit, supplied out
of the general treasury was 6. 8 per cent.
Of the amount expended. and it will he
somewhat augmented when the unad-
justed liabilities for the year have been
ascertained and paid. The expendi-
lures for service of fiscal year were
s3,149,9l6 or ST per. cent more than
those of the preceding year. In ad-
dition to the expenditures s.ooye stated
the sum Of S34O, ,829 was paid on ac-
count Of indebtedness incurred in pre-
vious years, making the total amount
expended during the year, $50, ,592, 566.
Sales of postage stamps, envelopes and
postal cards.. aggregate s34, ,625, ABS.
There were 1904, 3ll ,542 pieces. Ag-
gregate increase of sales, 81, ,538, 900 or
10 per cent. Postage collected on
newspapers and periodicals was 81. .399. :
04S or an increase of IA per cent. or
total amount 27.65 per cent was col
lected in New York: 1901 in Chicago;
sos in Boston; 500 in Philadelphia;
4.65 in Augusta, Maine; 4.61 In St.
Louis; 1.53 in San Francisco. The
weight of such matter was nearly 35,-
600 tons or 10000, 900 pounds. 1t was
mailed at 4,62l post offices; l 1,046, 1O7,-
34s letters were mailed during the fiscal
year, and 1928, 621 reached the dead
letter Office; SC, ,5S4 was found for
which 40 claimant appeared; $3.50 900
letters and parcels were received. The
number of domestic money orders
issued during the year was Z, ,663 ,232, of
the aggregate value of S7O5, ,075, ,769.
The number of such orders paid during
the same time was 1921 ,71o, amount
ing in value to S104, 924, 1853. Excess of
issues over payments was loo, 0,915. The
total amount of fees paid by the public
to postmasters for issues of domestic
orders was 966, 732. This is an increase
of "a, 1928 900 Of orders issued. The
gross revenue to the government has
been 1882, ,314. On the whole the
gross revenue of the department fell of
because clerk hire was increased. There
are now in operation II, ,592 routes (of
which 1,194 are railroad routes) show
ing an increase of 76, aggregating in
length 344, ,0O6 and in annual cost S19,-
323. 800; adding compensation of rail-
way post office clerks, route agents,
mail route messengers, local agents and
mail messengers amounting to S3,s72,-
142. The total annual cost was $685.
iso'os2. The service was divided as
follows: railroad routes length, 9l,569
miles, annual transportation lo3,52l-
zzs miles, annual cost Sll, 6l3.36S I'm
ciuding Sl'3o4' lo' for railway post
once car servicel ABOUT LIZ cents per
mile. steamboat routes, length, Il, l3S
"lies' annual transportation, o,o4o, ooi
miles, annual cost' sioo' loi, ABOUT 1872
cents per mile. star" routes on
which mails are required to be con-
Veyeo WIN ceierlty, certainty ana Sc
euii'y' iene'"' zo.,Zss m'ies, annuai
stalSpol .a'.on, ,s,oo''Ioo niies' an
nua. vu'.' SU'''' ,ooo' "pou' o''a Genus
POI "no' W. olee' are suppiieo oy
a-oa - ~, 'es' az az annu"i ooS' VI
s'o' no iaioau iou.eS "ere in-
0ieaSeu IN iens.h o,z4s miles ana In
cos' Si'ii4'ooz. oeeampoat routes
me,e uecieaseo ~ ieneen l,iez miles
anu IN cos', siso'oo4. Inc star
iou'os we,o ueoieasea ~ iength o'SaS
'n'ies ana in cos' eoo4'l44.
he gives review OF the rapid devel-
opment OF the west and the temptation
to extend mail facilities beyond their
need at lavish cost.
In 1851, what was practically a
branch post office department had to be
established In San Francisco. Adver-
tisement and letting OF mail routes had
70 Dc delegated to a special agent Of the
department clothed with extraordinary
power Tor this purpose. The great dis
tance from the seat of government and
delay In communicating with the de-
partments agents, incident to long
Sea voyage, crippled the efforts Of the