Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-02-16
POST OFFICES BY STATES
J>TuKM tTION REGARDING THE PEO-
PLIES RESORTS.
Haci~ aud Figures Which Affect All
OF the states In the Union
The Little Offices.

81 haze about all of my appointments of
sfourth-Cidss pOstmasters made in my dis
Irict and | feel happy" said represent
atiye from a western state to a fellow
representative in an uptown hotel
How many post offices are there in your
district - the latter asked.
About 20.
How many post offices are there In your
state
''Abou,-why. that is-welI, l declare.
I ought 10 be able to answer that but
really cannot say. l must look It up
That is Il pardonable Ignorance on your
part. said post Office official present.
There is not one representative In fifty who
can answer that question, nor one man in
1896" who knows even approximately the
numhcr of post Offices in his state. and how
his state compares in this regard with other
states in the Union. If you will permit
ln. 7 will answer Mr.. IS question.
'Crrtaiuly.'' said the representative.
Keystone state Leads.
PENNSYLVANIA is the banner state in the
S.2a! In fact, this state is way in the van
: 81 the states for New York, the empire
state, has 2. I35. and is run close second
ny Virginia with 3.5Tj. There are but four
: otEer states having 5000 and over post Of
fIr"s. ANA they are Kentucky with 3,o23.
North Carolina with 3.09S. Ohio with :},IUJ
and Texas with 3.ll2.
In the 1000 class Missouri and Tennes-
gee are neck and neck with 29s:I and 1853,
respectively. Georgia has more Offices th@n
Illinois and their figures =. ia AMI
2G2j, respectively, with the latter states
rival. Indiana. good fourth with 2,2p2,
Alabama has So Michigan completes
the class with = 1870
There are ~ states in what we will call
the lfp and over grade, and five of these
states can trot under blanket, as follows:
West Virginia. 1885: Mississippi. 1851;
Wisconsin. $40, Arkansas ! 9:,2. and Iowa,
1.sHIs. Then come Kansas with l.GS2, Min
nesota with 1857, California ten behind
with 1857. South Carolina with / 422, Maine
with l.2I2, Florida with 1.140. Louisiana
with l,l9l and Nebraska with Loss.
The Diminu,iye states.
"Eut the little fellows must not be neg
lect~d. Little Rhode is proud Of 148. Del
aware boasts of less than 1I6. while
Washington is not the only post office In
The District of Columbia. some people
bslieve who do not live within the Dis
tri"t. there being fifteen other post offices
within It's boundaries. Alaska territory
has ~. Indian territory, a2'; Oklahoma,
tlS, Arizona. 22l; New Mexico. 3D.. and
4 Porto Rico, - Nevada of the different
state- has the least except Rhode Island
and Delaware-1ss
In the mining states Idaho has AS:
Montana. 49I; Colorado 75l, Utah $50
Wyoming. 317. Washington and oregon.
the two rival states OF the northwest are
about alike. with $50 and $50 each The
sister pakotas nearly correspond, with 647
Tor North Dakota and 694 for South Da-
kota. New Jersey has 929. New Hamp-
shire. :',iS. Vermont, so. and Connecticut
6l0
III VIII surprise many people to learn
thar the great commonwealth OF Massachu-
sets. the cradle of liberty can boast Of
bur $40 post offices. within one as many
"a the state Of Washington. Maryland has
lJ9
Relative Value of the Omces.
Though North Carolina has within 800
o. - "2-.i.s post offices as the state of New
York. and nearly four times as many as
Massachusetts,. hundreds and hundreds OF
them are small offices. paying from 81 TO
81 a year. Only ~ pay $1,000 and over a
year. New York has }65, PENNSYLVANIA 3l6
and Massachusetts 1871 Offices in the presi-
. Dental grade. which grade Is. by the way
offices paying $1,000 and over a year There
are two in the District of Columbia Yielding
this income w ashington and Pathfinder
tlarSland has thirty-one. Virginia sixty
Your, Alaska two. Hawaii five and Porto
Rico four.
And it Is the little office which paws
from 81 to 500 year which makes the life
Of a representative a burden continued the
official out OF the I6 SIS post offices in
the United States there are thousands of
post offices which pay under so a year
ana thousands more which pay under $26.
IN the mountain districts of Virginia, West
virginia Tennessee, Kentucky. North Car