Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-11-03
PosroFFiCE MATTERS.
Report of the Assistant Postmaster
General Made Public.

Washington, Nov. 1.-The annual re-
port OF W. $. shalenberger second
assistant postmaster general was
made public today. II shows that on
June Goth last the annual rate OF eN-
penditures for inland mail service was
S55.l46 O60 FOR foreign service. S2,0li53S,
total expenditures, Sj7lG05sS There
Were 22S43 star routes. with a total
mileage of 269, sos, involving an annual
rate OF expenditure OF $5.133,3IS. 1888
special office routes annual expenses
N3G9.OOO): SG9j railway pOstotiioe clerks
Cannual expenditure, $S,si6.i24), Ilsl
mail messenger routes go wagon routes
On Ciues). 2N electric and cable car
routes. five pneumatic routes annual
expenditure. sop 2G6). Necessary and
special facilities ON trunk lines OF rail-
roads involved an annual rate eNpsndl-
ture of Slgjli3 and mail equipments
cost S22jH.
The routes OF all kinds IN the domes-
tic mail service cover over 100000 miles
I'm length. and the miles travelled over
them per annum was i9j905,ii3. An
average of almost nine trips a week on
each route was maintained throughout
the country.
Mr. ShallenbcrEer refers 90 the steps
taken looking 90 stopping speculative
bidding Cor mail contracts. ana an
nouncas that the new policy Of award
ing am new contracts only 90 persons
living on or contiguous to the route in-
volvc3 has worked satisfactorily. The
equipment of box delivery on star
routes whereby persons along the line
should have mall brought from the
next office by the star route carrier and
left IN "a box erected by such persons
has worked satisfactorily IN South
Carolina. and the next star route con-
tracts win provide for such service, In
crcagng the mail facilities in the ru-
RAJ districts at "a moderate Increase Of
cost
Letter mail for the interior Of Alaska
was carried last winter by service
that was reasonably wen performed.
For the coming winter the arrange
menis double tho frequency ot dis
patches for points supplied by various
overland routes supplying the Offices
along them with letter mail four times
a month. Mails win be- carried hy REIN
deer this winter from Elton 90 kotse-
buc points north OF the Arctic circle
Plans for various overland routes are
announce and the n cessl.y emphasized
NI NI=NININ LlNl WIN IlI. NN' N. INiN
mcnt In opening am aliAmcu0an mile
ary post road from Valdez io the up
per Yukon.
The service I'm Porto Rico Hawaii
and the temporary military postal SER
/ vice in China are touched ON briefly.
! The special and general Wolghms OF
| the mail throughout the United states,
/ whose results were announced l9st
February showed the railroads carried
! an aggregate much greater than gem
! orally supposed. ana That 80 per cent
/ ot the total matter was sent direct o
| the railroads
Relief legislation for families of those
/ killed IN the service Is asked, ANA the
! creation of q FUND o. retire on pay a
| clerk whose usefulness is cat snort nN
/ permanent disability incurred To- the
| line OF duty REORGANIZATION ana re-
/ classification Of the railway mail service
| legislation requiring separation ot sec
0nd-class matter by publishers. ana les-
islation Tor the punishment Of persons
who boy force attempt % enter postal
car or assault the postal clerk on du'y'
are recommended. No estimate Is SUD-
United at this time FOR pneumatic Iuoe