Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-23


Once.
Among the visitors to Butte Saturday
were r. E. SpangIer and George F. Smith,
Postofice inspectors in the division OF the
Free Delivery at Washington. The gentle-
men arrived unheralded and went about
the work that brought them here with
Postmaster Talent very quietly yesterday.
Their presence is Of the greatest significance
10 Butte and win be followed by the city
receiving the greatest benefit in the way OF
accommodation from the post office that
the department. can confer on q commu-
nifty.
In conversation with them yesterday
evening Mr.. Spangler remarked: "Onr
special business is to inspect those places
where free delivery of letters is asked and
to see that the requirements OF the depart
ment have been compiled with. We have
been over the city to-day with Mr.. Talent
and find that the city is fully entitled to
free delivery both from size Of population
and amount Of business DONE"
What will be the limits OF the free deliv-
cry, once established?"
aWe win recommend that the Walkerville
and South Butte postofices be discon-
tinued and they be included in the Butte
Office. Meadervills we will recommend be
left as it is, since it is too far away at pres
emit, but, nc doubt, in time the city will
grow out to and include it and when the
force Of letter carriers is enlarged it will
then come into the system
ABOUT how many letter carriers do you
think the Burte post-ofice will be allowed?n
II should say fine"
rs there any limit Of age?"
b limit is from 1S To 40 I think
what are the requirements"
They must be OF good, moral character
and be able to give q bond for $1,000"
"What salary will they get?n
The salary is $50 q month the first year
and it rises to $500. I understand from
Mr.. Talent that there may be some diff
Guilty in getting men Of the requisite char
acter for that figurei in this place where wages
are SO high. / assure you it is quite differ
emit elsewhere. ! know instances where q
hundred applications were received for
one of these positions. The experience
generally is that postmasters are overrun
with applications as soon as it becomes
known that they are vacant"
What was the reason the city did not
get free delivery sooner"
ut was understood at the department
that the people here were n anxious
about it. Besides that, the appropriations
last year were insufficient to afford it.
There are so many places wanting it all
the time that some have to wait. All
IAN not be accommodated at once.
We are now on our way west to
the coast and havesnumerous splaces to
visit. I see, however, that the houses here
numbered and that the city is in every
way entitled to free delivery now and we
will advise it be granted at once. One OF
the principal advantages OF the carrier
system is that drop-letter boxes will be
probably to the number OF
fifty, all over town, which will be q great
convenience to every one"
How many deliveries will there be q
.:There will be one after the arrival OF
each mail arriving before 6 O'Clock in the
At present, l understand, you
have two mail arrivals in the day, one in
the morning, the other at night. The
latter will therefore 60 out with the morn
ing mail. Letters will be collected from the
drop boxes at fixed hours every day, regu-
lated by the time OF closing the mails"
"How soon will you make your recon-
to the Department."
"At once. Probably tomorrow"
Mr.. Talent stated that there were altera-
lions necessary in the interior arrangement
the postofice, which he had placed at
$50 to cover all contingencies, though he
did not anticipate that it would mount to
that. The inspectors said that OF course
the department would order these changes
at once.