The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-01-28

postofIlce. there is a graded rate of
pay law, approved Judy /. 1907,
provides that for every line comprIs-
ing a daily trip each way OF railway
or railway postofiice cars" the pay
shall be at a rate not exceeding $50
per mile per annum for cars forty feeI
In length. and $3.50 per mile
per annum for forty y-f1vc-foot
cars. and 1925 per mile per
annum for fifty-foot cars, and $40 per
mile per annum for cars fifty-five feet
OF more In length, The per mile
means per mile of the route and not
the number OF aggregate miles trav-
eled by the car. II is the schedule OF
pay against which there has been
much outcry in wcll-informed quart
ers
The longest railway postal route
in California upon which the quad
drennlal weighing will soon be con-
busted Is that on the Southern Pa
cihc, from the Ferry station In San
Francisco to Ogden, Utah. Only Il
portion of that route. Of course. Is
through northern California, but it
is the big railway postal route a total
i'ubNu VI 'spl iNll ibe al
erage OF 99,110 pounds OF mail a day
al an average speed OF 25.55 miles an
hour the government is paying the
Southern Pacific S926,254i6 a year.
This includes great number OF local
as well as express trains, some with
a closed pouch service only. and With
out any railway postal cars.
The railway poStofflce pay allowed
the Southern Pacific on this San Fran
cisco-Ogden route now amounts TO
S122,679.6O per annum. being $3.50 per
mile for 2761 miles, $3.50 mile for
1886 miles and $3.50 mile FOR 6IS6S
miles The railway postotilce car ser
Vice authorized on the route includes
two Ines daily OF siXty-foot postal chr
and two lines OF flfty-foot cars. There
are many varieties in the amount of
postal car cervlce on this route AT
various points, differences in the num-
Der OF round trips a week and differ
ences in the number of trips out and
the number of trips in.
Another Southern Pacific route is
over the line from RoSeville. Cal, 10
Ashland. Ore, 1892 miles. carrying
an average of 1855 pounds of mail
d day, according 10 the weighing of
four years ago. at an average rate or
speed of 1866 miles an hour. The an
nual rate of pay to the Southern Pa
citic on that route is S91 .505.22. oil
which $12 800 is for railway mall post
Office cars at the rate of $50 per mile
per annum for 322.51 miles. This SER
vice comprises an average of 1925
trips per week and the pay per mile
per annum. S1,176.4S
The California Northwestern Rail-
road company has a mail route from
San Francieco Ferry to Sherwood, an
average weight OF 1924 pounds OF
mail day at an average speed of 14Si
trips week, The annual pay for that
service Is $22.9703S, or S15134 per
aDnum, There arc no railway postor-
fees on that route,b there are apart
ments for the storage of mail, tness
apartments being of prescribed dimen-
sionS
The Very Shortest Haul.
The figures for some of the shorter
railway mail routes In Northern Call
fornia ,as per present four year con-
tracts, soon to expire, afford some op-
portunitv for comparison. The Cali
lornia Northwestern Railway mas
mail route GIG miles long from Pc.
taleum TO Lakevllle over which IL
closed pouch service six
trips every week. carrying an aver
age OF thirty pounds of mail at elgh,
teen miles an hour. The rate paid for
this service is s263.34 a year or $43.75
route on its line from Sacramento 10
per mile per annum.
The S. P. has a mail route 70