The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30
GROWTH OF CITY SHOWN
BY POSTOFFICE RECORDS

Money orders and postage stamps are
two things one cannot buy on credit,
nor indeed are the people who indulge
in the luxury OF domestic and interna-
tional money orders the people wnr
have to get other things on credit.
From which il would appear that the
business done by its postoffice is =
pretty good index of the real pros
perity of city.
The business of the Salt Lake post
oIiicc lest year shows that Salt Lake is
prosperous; compared with that for
other years It shows that that pros
perity is a growing one. in the year
that is past the Dostoffice issued 49.I7I
domestic money orders. for total
amount of $6S,G67 Sc, and in foreign or
ders s7S9S6.32 went out of the city in
1884 separate amounts. The latte. fig
ures are the mere significant, for while
the domestic money orders repre- scented
i'm the majority of cases -Gnaittances of
money to eastern mail order houses
that might better have been spent here
in Salt Lake City, the foreign orders
represented gifts made out of the SUI
perhuity of the Salt Lakers' earnings
to those in other countries who had
less than he haG.
Spending money here or in the cast
ON what are probably nece ssities does
not signify prosperity necessarily, but
the possession of a Superhuity of
money III a city and the sending of it
without return to foreign countries
signifies something not far from the
most blessed prosperity. And that the
foreign money order business Of Salt
Lake meant gifts. and notn mare ex-
Nv I ha far f7a no
Lake meant gifts. and not mere eX-
CSC. only had to pay 20 the order of out
side parties on International orders the
sum of S11 ,S33.47, in i31 separate pay
ments. So that the net gift OF Salt
Lake TO the world beyond was $751;
352.S5. That was the net gift. but as q
matter of fact could tire Sl1,c00 sent az
here frcm foreign lands be traced for
another year or two 1t would be found
| TO ultimately make its way back 20 the
postofice again and thclice TO the
country from which it came, rOr the
sums sent here from the poorer coun-
tries are practically al loans to newly
arrived settlers and are repaid with in
| terest.
Fewer Domestic Money Orders.
The income and outgo of money seen
| i'm the international order figures is not
Daralieled by the domestic orUeIs- WINE
| the internationa, orders represent gifts
principally, with a few leans, the 90
nestle orders represent all kInds or
| transactions The OutSo 2rincipailT
represents remttances to man order
houses. but judging from the income Is
| from many sources. In 1906, Wheh oV"r
s60. 600 was sent out cf the city, the Dig
sum of 81 I'D S2G.42 came into the CITY
from other parts of the country ana or
the state in s9,S39 separate orders. mis-
means, among other things, that TIE
stores in Salt Lake, which are ioslhs
| by competition with eastern mani Or
der houses, are gaining by cong 4
state and intermountain mail order
business themselves. Unlike the for
eign order proposition, there is nothing
ellemosynary about it. 1t is SIMPLY on
evidence of internal commerce Like
everything else, it shows an increase
over the previous year. In 1905 the
money coming into the city by way Of
the postoffiee was 81 COL 90S.24. in i4,12i
orders.
Money for Postage Stamps.
| In the past year s1s5, 30 was spent
| i'll postage stamps. The sum spent in