The oasis., 1895-12-14
SADLY ovERwoRKED.

publication about the half-cooked
 freak he has inflicted upon the busi-
 ness public of Nogales as the respon-
 sible publisher of his personal organ,
 he deyotes the opportunity to getting
 into print something about how the
 Nogales custom house is doing so tre-
 mendous misunderstanding to an in-
 ference, of course, that the force must
 be terribly overworked.
 Now what are the facts? How does
 the work of the office correspond with
 that of the preceding administration
 of the custom house when George
 Christ'was collector? In MT. Christ's
 term the office force consisted of MT.
 Willis P. Haines, special deputy col
 lector, MT. R. D. George, chief clerk,
 who also acted as export clerk, and
 Miss Amy Christ, statistical clerk, who also acted as inspectress at the depot
 whenever occasion required. Beside these three there were two inspectors on the line. The present force con- sists of MT. F. M. King, special deputy collector, Mir. F. J. Duffy, chief clerk, and MT. s. M. Aguirre, statistical clerk; while goodly part of the time Mir. Robert NJ. Catlett, one of the inspect ors on the line, is at desk in the cns- tom house. An inspectress is con- stantly employed, and for an attend ance at the depot about one hour daily IS paid seyenty-fve dollars per month. And there are four inspectors on the line, Messrs. Catlett, Reynolds, Welsh, and Hannah, instead of two, as in the Christ administration.
 As to the work. In the Christ ad- ministration the bulk of imports con- sisted of ores. At that time little if any ore went through in bond, and the duties were all calculated and paid at the Nogales custom house. Of course every shipment of ore presented different assay value, and there were variations in proportion in the lead, ! gold, silver and copper contained | therein. Then there was variation | in classification and rate of duty whe- ther silver or lead predominated in | the ore. All that required extensive and complicated calculations, which | consumed great deal of time, yet | was all done by the three persons named, without having to call an in- spector from the line to help out In addition the duties of export clerk | were then performed by MT. George, while they are now discharged by the Now the bulk of ore ship ments go through in bond; assays, classificati0ns, rates, calculations and duties are all adjusted at the port of destination, and all that work is in a great degree lifted from the Nogales office. The bulk of imports now han dled by the Nogales custom house consists of cattle. There has to be no NJiAi bO uillfC db OilSii fdlut- as in the case of ores-for that is plain ly set forth; and the duty is simply matter of twenty per cent, which any ten year old schoolboy can readily compute. Consequently the actual labor in the Nogales custom house at this time is lighter than in the pre-
 -l.-
 Webb has to carry on his pay roll eight to do less amount of work than Collector Christ did with five.
 THE OASIS Is credibly informed by numerous gentlemen in positions to know, that the entire service the spe- cial deputy collector of customs gives the United States consists in occa- signing his name to "the blue