The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-12-18

Amount Of same ........$ 29,332.36
Number of international or
ders paid .............. 6S
Amount of same .......... 1852
Total amount paid 1903 3O.3O9.1S
Difference ...... .........$ 69,555.99
Amount of orders issued
and paid ............. 13O, 174.35
Total number of moner or
der transactions ........ 1926
Total amount Of fees re-
ceived ................. 1.o16.76
The Registry Business.
No. of pieces registered. .... 2S2O|
No. of pieces of registered
matter received $500
Mail Handled.
No. of ordinary letters re-
celVed ..... ..........l .O95,uOO
No. Of ordinary letters de-
Spatched 80. ............ .275, 900
Amount of second. third and fourth
class mail received. 1S2,5OO pounds,
or 80 IA tons.
Free City Delivery.
The outlook for free city delivery
is most encouraging. Before the de-
partment will consider a proposition
to institute city free delivery the rec
ords of the office must show postal
receipts for the previous year end
ing June 3Oth of $4,000 or over. The
Kalispell Office makes a showing for
such period of over $1,000. Other
requirements are that streets must
be well sidwalked. streets named and
houses numbered. all of which he
quirements have been met, and just
as soon as the auditors official re-
port for the fiscal year ending June
Goth, 1901. is completed, which will
show receipts of the various 10000,
offices, then official action will be
taken giving city delivery to Kalis-
pell
This is very gratifying and speaks
much for so young city as Kalispell.
when 1t is taken into consideration
that many places in the United States
of 10000 population can not show re-
ceipts that will justify free delivery.
Rural Free Delivery.
The outlook for free rural delivery
is certainly very encouraging. Petit
lions have been drawn as prescribed
by the department. asking for two
and possibly more routes, and the
wrok of mapping out same has al
ready been taken up. BY those who
are familiar with Montana it is stat
ed that this county offers the only
feasible field for the establishment of
such a system and as Montana is one
which has not been favored with this
progressive step in postal progress.
1t is only fair to think that there will
be no hesitation on the part of the
department in establishing such inno-
walton. In eastern states farm land
contiguous to rural mail routes has
rapidly raised in value and the
scheme has become so thoroughly en-
grated upon the postal system that
congress is every year making larger
and larger appropriations to meet its
demands. If the farmers of this val
ley take lively interest in rural
free delivery there is no doubt but
three and possibly four routes can
be established.
After July next all farmers living
on or near the various star mail
routes of the county who will put up
a mail box such as is endorsed by the
department-and there are several
kinds-their mail will be deposited
free of charge in such boxes and will
also be gathered and taken to the
postoffice free of charge.
In the past carrier has had right
to charge for such service. This Of
flee will arrange. free OF charge, in
side boxes in the office for depositing
mail of those along such routes hav-
ing boxes. The mail will be tied
and delivered to the carrier, who will
deposit same in box. This system
very closely approaches rural deliv-
cry. Postoffices in the ccanty have
rapidly multiplied in the past four
years. there being at present "a es-
tablished and doing business, named
as follows: Kalispell, Bolton, Column
bia Falls, Creston. Dayton, Bigfork,
Cabinet. Chotauqua, Echo, Kila, La
sale, Meadow. Essex, Glenn, Holt,
Jennings, Libby, Marston, Montford,
Paulson, Sheldon, Sylvanite, Tobacco
and Troy. OF these II are supplied
by the Kalispell office. The outlook
for better mail facilities in this coun-
ty is very encouraging and will GER
tainly be appreciated. In most new
towns and counties where the popu.
lation is rapidly increasing the work
of the Office is always in excess of the
clerical allowance and the equipment
inferior. The auditors report will
show that many towns in the east and
south twice and three times as large
as Kalispell do not show equal re
ceipts. The business done by a post
office is quite indicative Of the bust
ness of the city and county in which
1t Is located.
p. N. BERNARD, p. M.