Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-11-10
Inter- sting Postal Statistics.
WAsHINGroN. October /.

WASHINGTON, October So
The annual report of First Assistant Post
master-General Hatton gives the number of
post-offces in operation June 80 1882 as 46. 231.
an increase of Liz during the year. One thou
sand nine hundred and fifty-one of these
offices are filed by appointment by the Presi-
dent, known as Presidential" Offices and the
remainder-44, 2S0-are filled by appointment
by the Postmaster-General. The free-delivery.
system was in operation during the year in liz
principal Cities and employed 31l5 carriers
The regular appropriation for this service was.
$2,60O,O0U, to which was added by special APP
preparation $4,000 to meet an anticipated de-
ficency, making the total appropriation ST.
625,0)0-an increase of $125000 over the pre-
vious year. The total cost of the service was
S2,6232o2, leaving an unexpended balance of
$l,73S. The average cost per carrier
was SS35.5, q decrease of S37.79. This de-
crease was owing to the appointment of addi.
tional carriers (auxiliariesl at $40) per annum,
the appropriation being insufficient to employ
carriers at a higher salary. Mr.. Hatton rec
ommends that the free-delivery system be ex-
tended to towns with n short distances of one
another which have not singly the required
qualification of population or the gross reve-,
nue. emitting them to this service but which
have in the aggregate more than the required
population or revenue. During this year the,
regular biennial adjustment of 2Ol2 Presiden-.
tial postmasters' salaries made an increase of
S24S, or fourteen per cent. as compared with
the previous adjustment Reports from ALI
parts of the Union showed very gratifying
and general increase of business, and the sum
necessary to pay the increased salaries of
postmasterS, Including 3j5 special adjust
mentS, amounts to S563 400, or 1914 per cent.
more than last year.
The report of the Superintendent of For
elgn Mails for the last fiscal year shows that
452OgO more pounds were transported than the
previous year, not including Canadian mail.
The cost for ocean transportation was $4,000
more than last year. The amounts estimated
the fiscal year 1888; and 1884 are as follows:
transportation OF mails, $350,C00; balances
que foreign count ries, including proportion
ATE snare OF expenses of The International
Bureau, Postal Union and other items, $6O,-
O0O; total, $4,000. number of interesting
statistics are included in the report. 1t is.
shown, for instance, that in the number of
post-oflices the United States ranks first, with
AZ, 9S9 offices. the next highest being 1859
III Great Britain. Switzerland leads irp
respect to the number of Offices for each in
habitant, with one office for every 993 inhabi-
tants, the United States having one Office for
every 1,l67 inhabitants. France and Germany
have by far the largest number OF letter-boxes.
for the reception of correspondence. Great
Britain conveyed the largest number of LET
ters-1, 176, ABB coo, the United States ran]xino-
second, with Si7, 20O29 letters. The United
States appears, however, to have conveyed
nearly double as many postal-cards and
newspapers as were sent in any foreign coun-
try The United States has the largest num-
Der of miles of railway transportation. o.
9S9,49l miles. With respect to gross postal
revenues those of Germany aggregated IO0-
21,319 francs, the United States I76 4s3 cor
francs, and Great Britain 16S, $50. 765 francs