Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-10-07
MEMCO'S RURAL MAIL
ROUTES AND THE TERRI
TORY COVERED DAILY
OVER 700 FAMILIES VISITED AND
5000 PERSONS SUPPLIED WITH
DAILY MAIL = ROUTES AVER.
AGE ABOUT rs MILES IN
LENGTH
Make Their Daily Trips Regardless
Of Wefther and Also Have Other
Duties to Perform That Makes
Their Work Harder.

putes to Perform That Makes
Their Work Harder.
Within a radius OF IL miles of
Mexico are 720 rural mail boxes in
which more than 5000 persons re-
ceive mail each day Of the year
from seven travelling postoffices, who
work under one of the newest but
most Observation-Disclosures ever invent
ed. The rural man routes of Mex
leo cover altogether 175 miles around
Mexico. Seven men cover these
routes. The work and experiences OF
the rural mail carriers are by no
means monotonous. The men who
cover THE Mexico rural routes an
territory they go over are:
Route ED. Rodhouse, 2S square
miles; lis houses; population 46O,
and length 25 3-S miles. south and
southwest.
Route, 2--Geo H. Clark, territory 2
square miles; 95 houses; population
$50, and distance 25 5-S miles, north
anu Ws'' -,
H'u'e ~ thu.Oei' 'eiii i'ol >
20 squ@ie mAes' 10 houses, popu'
ola'io" 1oo' '"u u'''"'Oe ~ . ~
'0utn ,. &c
nouO " mooee' .eli. =
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la'ion Oo1' anu u''''e ~ ~
Hol 'ne
Route d. o. NC
Gee, territory ~ square
miles; " houses; populatioh 900 al
distance "a 90 miles, sou'u~es'' :,
hou'e W ~ uriAiin' 'eSt4Oo'
square miles; "a houses; popuiauioi
SS6 and distance "a ~ miies' west
Route I'll u Ncoee' territory q
square llhesi lVo muses. popuitl
ton AZ and dlstance 20 l-4 mnes
norun' ne aiso CARRIES 'iie ii"h, ioi
Moilno Wnch mas Two routes iron
It's offlce.
| The rural mail carriers are ap
pointed after passing a civil service
examination. For the regulation roui
Of "a miles they are paid S75
month. Under that the pay runs p5
the mile Each carrier is under bono
of $50. Each carrier must furnish
his horse and wagon.
The idea prevails that mail car
rier has nothing more to do thal
go to the postoffice, get a sack 0
mail and go out and deliver 1t. Tn
carrier must take tne same iuen.
cal road eaeh DAY Oh MS TRIP =
. , case OF a storm or 1000 ne rs a.
lowed TO use MS own 1uusmen' W
must look out lot ms own sale.y .
wen as tna' on hi' n0fD "'A" " ~
mat ,.,ro,
office. He carries speol@i ~,
letters, which ne mus. .~A norson ,
house and deliver 10 INC P !,
whom it is addressed ne nus"
! the same with resis'ereu n s.,,sa
% with pension papers. II ene nou'9 !,
,r more than hah miie I'm !,
road he leaves a not'ce l" .r,
= box. He carries poscaee :,
and money orders anu resNsSeie s ~ Mav,
- The carriers WORKING ou' " OK
carry an average Oh over 70 %
pieces of mail eacn monsn' sf
carrier handles less 'han "
=, pieces Of mail he must eoun'
~ mail and make monthly rep0'''
- ~ One of the worst things that
a. carrier has to deal with Is whae
Va called the penny nuisance" l
,ov mers leave mail in their po&eS
~. out any stamps, but drop In a cou
w. w. Of pennies, which the carrier mas
y fish out of the box. He does
~ have to do that, for the law
that the money left In box Sh'
he enclosed in an envelope
wrapper with instructions as 70
With rse sometimes larger sum
,und neunies are left. A letter witho
rior stamn is left and a half-dollar
With out instructions II half-do
orl worth of stamps is wanted.
Ger. The rules and regulations OF
, thel nostofftce department cover ever
This al, of the rural carriers work
main erv little thing is covered by a r
suf. The boxes are supposed to be
by sible to the carrier without nnS
ing the wagon road OF getting
of his wagon. They must oe
four feet from the grounu'
rloN. Not more than five can get
E. in the same box, however
con- Another duty OF the ru,~
e. D. is to make repots too Vue u
ite,up ment of agriculture OF, OF % stats ahe
Oct rior department OF tne ss,ss. S.aos
iation gist or any other sta'e oneI .
ily OF parently. who want 70 ut nuU
lid ac- The agricultural depalunen' ,,.,
reports as TO tne cva ..ror dona,
Recently the agricui'u,si 49, -
W called for report vM 80 20