The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-04-29
SPLENDID SHOWING
GUTHRIE POSTOFFICE
Gains EntitIe II to More
Clerks and Better Pay

The Guthrie postoGice has passed
another fiscal year and Is again in
cluded in the list Of lose showing
increase sufficient to enter the next
limit designated by the postoffice de-
par..nent.
..s the office grows and salaries in
crease the limits regulating the COM
pensations and allowances of The OF
fice become greater.
The past year the sales Increased
$500 over the year previous or 20
per cent gain, this being Si,10O more
than was necessary to entitle us no.
tice from the department
Word has already reached here that
another clerk would on July lst next
be ADDED to the present overworked
force and as a reward or service, old
clerksc would also receive additional
compensation.
A comparison of the yearly sales
since 1898 shows a vast increase in
growth OF business, In fact an almost
remarkable increase and should the
next four years prove as great as the
last our Office will enter the same class
as Topeka, Kansas City and st. Louis
The following figures will prove the
DAAltUAEnl ANEAAAAilb Jul 6ANWAh AbA
the past four years:
Sales for year 1s9s-99, $14,096.77.
sales or year 1S99-1900 6,20547
Sales for year 19O0-i901. SIC, ,26404
Sales for year 1901-1902, $25, ,291.32.
Showing the fact that sales at the
present are almost twice as great as
in 1898 or a gain OF 100 per cent
Where can a better proof be found OF
the fact that we are soon to join the
and rank favOrably with the largest
cities of th5 United States.
During the four years past two
clerks, one carrier and five rural routes
have been ADDED to u.s. also on January
/, 1901, the department saw iit to take
from the postofice at Little Rock,
Ark, and add to us the burden OF re-
ceiving and receipting for the surplus
postal funds received by fourth-class
offices in Oklahoma and Chickashaw
Nation. II amounting to at least
Sl00Ou0 a year
The past quarter OF this fourth
class business caused the Office TO ham
die from April / to Aprii II this year
about 900 registered remittances, con-
taiQing a total of over $50, 1000.
We have for several years been
the money order depository for Okla
homa and a great part of the Indian
territory. This account is Obliged to
be kept entireiy separate and distinct
from the other accounts, and will this
year cover a million aud a half Dc
lars
thirteen mails besides three star
routes are sent out and received each
day and with the Choctaw. Fort Smith
ana Western and Katy, what will we
dog 81
The following figures have been care
ully compiled and speak for them:
selves: -
Money orders issued from April I.
1898 10 March g. 1899, S59,530.97.
Money orders issued from April /,
1901 to March 81, 1902, S204 ,39135.
Money orders paid from Apri
1898 10 March 81, 1899 SOS, 1876.
Money orders paid from April 1,
1901 to March 81. 1902, S204. .39l.35.
Certificates OF deposit issued from
April /. 1898 to March 81. 1899 S437.
533lO
Certificates Of deposit issued from
april ]. 1901 to March 81, 1902 S764.
295.7S.
The fourth class deposits from Aprll
4. 1901 to March 81, 1902 were $751;
S33.37.
The total amount handled during
period from April 1. 1901 to March 81
1902. aggregates s1,675. $1,000
The work is more than the present
force can do and il became necessary
six months ago TO employ an extra
clerk at our own expense TO meet The
demands Of the service.
Two more clerks are needed and
ought to be given us.