Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-12-03

xhe rallway mail service shows an increase of 12, GOO miles and a decrease of 72 per cent. in the rate of cost per mile travelled The volume of business in the money order divi- sion was upward of S143, ,OO0, ,0O0, and is self sustaining, with net profit to the govern ment of S50,000. The volume of ordinary mail matter has largely increased, and it is estimated that the revenue during the past year would have been, without reductions of postage, upwards of $70,000,000. Carefully prepared statistics are submitted in every branch of the service demonstrating in the opinion of the postmaster general increased efficiency over previous years.
 Carefully prepared statistics are submitted contrasting our service with that of Great Britain, Germany and France, demonstrat- ing that i'll cheapness of postage, gross reve- nue and expenditures, number of postofiices, extent of mail routes mileage of mail service and volume of mail matter transmitted the postal system of the United States IS the leading one of the world
 Among the recommendations submitted are The ownership by the government of postoffice buildings; allowance for rent for third class postoffices; revision of the frank ing privilege law, and that at the termlna- tion of existing contracts for the manufact- ure of postage stamps, postal cards and stamped envelopes the government take the work into its own hands
 THE NATIONAL COINAGE.
 Dr. James P Kimball, director of the mint, in his annual report on the operations of the mint service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, shows the coinage of the year to have been as follows:
 Description. Pieces Value. Gold d.....,,.......2 235O, ,534 $2S, ,364, 0.50 Silver dollars. .,.,...., .32 71S,6T3 32Io.oLo'Oo Subsidiary silver coins, 12 9S3,5sl l,4lI, ,422.S Minor coins. 60, 977 ,S19 l2lS,9'ooI
 Total 1O9, ,O3O,547 S6s,719, 242, 32
 The silver purchased during the year for coinage aggregated 2S, POS, ,S05 ounces, at a cost of S24, ,237, ,553, or an average of 95.47 cents per ounce The seigniorage on the coin age of silver dollars coined during the year amounted to SS, 407, ,922, and subsidiary coinage to S71, 191. The seigniorage on the coinage of silver from July l, 1878, to June 30, 1883, have amounted to S47, ,536,6S1.
 The production of gold and silver in the United States for the calendar year 1887 Is estimated at s33, 900 900 gold and S53, ,357, 900 silver The production of gold in the world During the past four years has remained nearly constant, ranging from S1O1, ,694, ,OO0 in 1884 to S99 056, $50 in 1888, while the pro- duction of silver has increased in the last four years about $25, ,OOO, ,O00, ranging from S11O, 703, 900 in 1884 to S135, 449, 40 in 1888. The aggregate coinage or the World uurlng 1887 was: Gold, SPA, ,992, 465; silver, S160 9S4, ST.
 The stock of gold and silver coin in the United States on July 1, 1888, is estimated to have been: Gold coin, $595, ,349, ,S37; silver dollars, S299 70s, ,790; subsidiary silver coins, S76, ,406, 376.
 At the same date there was gold bullion awaiting coinage in the hints of the value of $11O 469, ,018; silver bullion, s. 950, ,3SS melted trade dollars, S6, 545, ,554; making 0 total metallic stock of $1 092, ,429, ,963. Of this there was in the treasury of the United States $594, ,53S, ,172; in national banks Sl05, 435, 492, and in other banks and in general circula- tion, S392, ,461 ,299.