Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-01-04
Great Growth in
Receipts in Re-
cent Years
REFLECTS PROSPERITY
Report Of Postmaster Paul
A. F. Walter an Interes.
ting Document.

Postoff1ce receipts in any localit!
are generally considered good index
of the business activity Of the com
munity. This Is true to only a certain
extent at Santa Fe for the Santa Fe
postofflce handles more official mail ir
proportion to its receipts than any 9th
er Office in the United States excepting
Washington, but strange to say, re
ceives no credit for this official mat
ter handled either in its receipts OF
in the adjustment Of its salaries and
allowances. The official Weighing Of
the mails during the past six months
disclosed the fact that the free penalty
matter sent from the Santa Fe postof
fee exceeded the weight Of all third
and fourth class matter taken togeth.
err. Nevertheless the local postoffice
Is the third in point of receipts in New
Mexico, being surpassed only by Albu.
querque and Roswell, and 1t shows a
steady growth every year, which indi-
Gates similar growth in the volume
of business transacted in the city.
In the year 1900, there were only
five names upon the payroll of the pos
Office, today there are fifteen names In
1900, the expenditures outside Of the
postmas'ter's salary were 1924. Sc;
last year they were twice as much,
$10,0l2 AZ. The total expenditures in
these seven years were $7S,O55 "a,
most of it for salaries which were ex-
pended in Santa Fe in greater part.
The postal receipts in 1900 were 49,
803.30; in 1907 they were $14,747 a.
In 1900 there were sold 1852, 2,349 stamps
postal cards and stamped envelopes;
last year there were sold 721,503. In
1900, the money order transactions
amounted to $152,219 81; in 1907, they
amounted to $313,615 &C. To put it
more graphically.
1900, employees, 5; 1907, employees,
is; 1900, postal receipts, $9,S09 30;
1907. postal receipts, $14,747.27; 1900,
money order business, $152,219.S7;
1907, money order business, $313,615..
&C; 1900, expenditures, $7,224 Sc; 1907,
expenditures, $12,412 AZ.
Interesting Figures in Postmaster's
Report.
= Other interesting figures may be
CLEANED from the annual report of
Postmaster Paul A. F. Walter. There
were issued during last year, 7,0S5 do
mestic money orders, amounting to
$50,784 Al and the fees on which were
$407. SO. The New Mexican ventures
to say that most of this money was
sent to city department stores and rep
rcsents only one.fifth of the total
amount sent out of Santa Fe annually
to business houses that know how to
advertise literally, while the majority
Of local business men neglect adver.
tising altogether or advertise parsi.
moniously as if advertising as bust
ness.getter were only all experiment
instead of a we'll proven fact, as is dem
onstrated by the quarter million dol
lars sent out Of Santa Fe annually in
response to advertisements. There
were paid last year, 1856 domestic
money orders amounting to $12O,SO1.-
81, considerably of this representing
money brought into Santa Fe by
healthseekers. There were issued only
140 foreign money orders, mostly to
France, amounting to $2,S14. ID, and
the fees to $24 Sc. There were paid
"a foreign money orders, mostly from
England, amounting to $5S2 H. There
were received $95,751 .6S of surplus
from money order offices, mostly in
Taos and Rio Arriba counties. There
were received from money order drafts
$35,50o.
Great Amount Of Mail Matter Handled
There were handled during 1907
a total of 2O,270 registered letters and
parcels. Of these ITO were register
ed at the local Office; 10000 were de-
livered at the local Office and 3,1OO
were recorded in transit. There were |
sent to the dead letter Office, 210O let.
ters and parcels, on account of insufflc.
lent postage, illegible address or be.
cause uncalled for This seems to be
an indication that people are not near
as careful about addressing their mail
as they should be. There were deliv.
cred during the year 672 special de-
livery letters and there were sent out
568 such letters. There were sold dur
ing the year 146,S76 one-cent stamps,
or three times as many as in 1900, this
increase being caused in greater part
by the souvenir postal card craze;
there were sold last year 351,731 two.
cent stamps: 1876 stamps OF higher
denominations; 24,S60 postal cards;
and 17S.439 stamped envelopes. The
greatest increase has taken place in
the receipts Of newspaper postage, !