The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-15
0ysr Half a Ton = Day Shipped
From Seattle.
SYRIA WORK IN LOCAL OFFICE,
s~,rs SPACE EIciusSveiy Reserved
for HandIing Letters and Papers
Destinea to the North-Advan-
ssses of Collecting Alaskan MniI
n This Point shown in Several
f,stsnces-Red Tape Causes Delay

More than half a ton Of mail . day
,esves the Seattle postoffce addressed to
seop,e in the city Of Nome. That Is the
Average made thus far since the first mail
s,sarner OF the present season sailed from
seat,ie on the 9TH OF May. From that
S.,e no 10 and including July 2. the date
~ the last mail shipment, over thirty
.,ven tons OF mail matter OF all classes
had been dispatched from the local post
sPrs destined to Nome.
rns business OF the local once has vast
IL Increased since the Nome rush set In
me department considerably allowed
anne additional help, but even with the
sxtra men now employed the ONCE force
= ~ times considerably overworked. To
.urh PROPORTIONS has the Alaskan mail
increased that a large space in the post
osro> basement is devoted TO II exclusively
and here a force OF clerks IL kept busy
:, All hours OF tho day.
The exaet amount OF mail shipped to
Nome from Seattle so far this season ex-
elusive Of the shipment on the steamship
roanoke is a. 2s pounds. fraction over
thirty-ssven tons. The first shipment
vent on the steamship Dora, sailing from
sssttie May g. and the last on the steam
sh,p Robert Dollar. sailing July Q. The
sfrty-rvs days. including those dates.
show an average Of LII and fraction
mounds OF mall per day. The latest esfi-
mate OF Monies population IL 10000 and
she postofYice records therefore show an
average Of -four pounds OF letters and
papers for each person In the sandy city.
me Roanoke on her present trip carries
about 100 pounds.
The Seattle postoffice. always "A busy
olsre n on this account unusually busy
Ills year and the extraordinary effort
ha mt fven tTa y.rfa
rudes the ingress OF vessels to BerIng
ses This season the mail Is being for
wsrded at every opportunity, tn. Il at
every opportunity which the postofYice de-
rsrtnent viii permit local officers 10 take
Advantage Of. OF all the vessels that
have left this port hound for Nome only
ten have taken mail and yet. by rapid
WORT in the local ofiice. II has been pos
t . reasonably lively rate.
Regular and Special Contracts.
The regular contracts OF the govern
ment for transportation OF mail 70 Nome
snl It, Michael call for only eight trips
I year. four from Seattle and four from
m rrsrciscc From Seattle the mail IL
nhsn under contract by the steamers OF
he N5rth American TRANSPORTATION and
trading Company, The Alaska Com
.wc!sI Company holds tho contract for
nriy this year. as soon 40 II was known
NJ thousan OF people would seek for
tsaes in the north, II became aoparent
q this point and additional means OF
Evaporation must be secured. II WAS
GsunHed tina, special trip contracts should
avoid blockade This plan ha. been
urrted out and shipments made as fol-
lcws,
NAY 8, steamship Dora. 1000 pounds.
MAY 81 via Ran Francisco, ifb pounds.
May IS, steamship Roanoke. issTI
pctinds
June .. transpor, Rosecrans. b2s5
pounds
June I. steamship Victoria CSC pounds,
June Is. steamship Ncwshoy, io-5G3
pounds
June 10 transport Fghert. ssls pounds
June III, steamship Iea ME sra mounds,
July 1. steamship Cleveland. 5si6 pounds,
July ., steamship Robert Dollar. 1885
pounds
The advantages Of Seattle a. the collect
Ing point for Alaska mail was striklngly
shown tn at least two instances. In one
esse the department ordered the mail for
Nome to DO shipped from Tacoma IN
hoard the steamship Victoria. 10 sail from
hat p1r, Juno I, Tho Instructions were
ebeyed and tho Victoria sailed from Ia
eosna on schedule time, but she camc 60
Seattle and remained here until June Z.
taking ON cargo, Meanwhile from tho Sc
stle rostoiilcc 8 rs pounds OF mail wore
shirped on the transport Rosecrans. June
and vi pounds on the transport Law
wv, June " anu NOTWITHSTANDING TINS
elsan.ur fc pounds were added TO the
Vletofia'e mail az this city June T.
In The other instance mail Ter Nome
VAS collected az san FrRucis~o for shin
inert on the steamship San plas, early In
May The San Has came 20 the Sound
Ard sailed from Seattle MAY Is with the
rat from San Francisco on board OF her
stlayrt ahou, two weeks The collection
q the mat az Tacoma and san Francisco
simply DELAYED It's transmission 30 the
Nor'h from one 70 fourteen days
Delays Caused by He'd Tape.
Mary opportunities for sending mail to
ne north are missed on account Of the