Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-08-21
RURAL MAIL ROUTES
PROVE POPULAR
IN FLORIDA
Department Gratified at Show
inc; Seeking Device to Safe
guard Transfer of Mails to
Moving Trains.

Washington, -. -. huHs o
az thes southern states. Florida has
vim one exception, Il fewer number
Of rural routes in operation than any
other. The records of the post office
derartment show that this is due
m the fact that 4 great many rura
sections have not sufficient pOpula'
tim to warrant the establishment o.
the service. on 303 petitions which
have been filed at the department roi
as many rural routes in the various
sections of the state, ISL rural routes
have been established, at a total an
nnal cost to the government of abou,
x14g354. Florida is one of these
STATES that did not avail of the adj
vantage of rural delivery until a num-
her of years after the first experiment
tal rural delivery service was put in
operation.
The first rural route in Florida was
established out of Sanibol in April,
1909. and from that date until 1904
there were but three established
"nr0lEIlb lIlf tlltllt Hkdlts 1otINlNt
in Florida now covers some -four
thousand miles of roads and accom-
modates Il population OF twenty-five
thousand.
A comparison OF the statistics COM
piled in 1905, showing the amount of
business transacted on rural routes
in Florida. with similar statistics
compiled for the months of March,
April and May of the current year,
shows an astonishing growth and that
the people are approaching the SER
vice and using it more and more. In
the sale Of stamps and stamped en-
yelopes there has beer an increase of
40 per cent over 1905, and, in the
value of stamps ON mai matter col
lected, an increase of about As per
cent In 1906 the average number of
applications for money orders recciv-
ed annually by rural carriers was 141,
and during the fiscal year l90S-09, the
average was 2SS, or an increase OF
nearly 10 0per cent. In 1906 the "
erage number of pieces of mail mat
ter delivered and collected by each
carrier per month was 2,515; for the
fiscal year l90S-09 the average was
3,GI9, or an increase Of about 43 per
cent, ana the increase in the amount
of registered matter handled for the
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f., rosnonoe IA no ira,i,v sent ant
n tha loodino rewsnonnrs ~ Elorid,
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