SOME FACTS REGARDING
U. S. POSTAL SERVICE
(By Charles W. Carter, Acting Post
master, Juneau.)
The following facts and figures rel
ative to the postal., service of the
United States are. taken from the re
port of the Postmaster General for
the year, ending June JO, 1924:
Employes of the postal
service . 266,640
Persons connected with
the service through
contracts . . 87491
Total . 353,831
Estimated number ol
pieces of mail handled
Postal receipts for the
year . §572,000,000
This is an increase over
1921 of . 188,507,725
Kuril: Service
Number of motor vehicles
required . 8,758
Number of families receiv
ing service . 6,534,950
Total population receiving
service . 30,060,826
Airplane Service.
On the air mail route from New
York to San Frarseiiseo the schedule is
every day, including Sundays and
holidays. The time for the trip is 34
hours 45 minutes going west and 31
hours 35 minutes going east. The
rate of postage on this route is 8
cents per ounce for each of the three
zones. Air .maik.stamps of 8 cents,
16 centts and 24,cents have been is
sued. This is the. longest air line in
the world and the only route upon
which night as well as. day, flying is
emplooyed. In addition to this trans
continental service, airplanes have
been put into service between Seattle
and Victoria, B. C.vtma between New
Orleans and the mouth of the Missis
sippi river. By means of these air
planes, mail arriving at either of
McGrath
Pool Hall
Cigars
T obaccos
Candies
Pm its
Soft-Drinks
A' Place to Meet
Your Friends
Geo.. Mutchler
Proprietor
Quicksilver
For Sale
' At
$90 Flask
At the
Parks Mine
Your Order Solicited
these ports is advanced in its delivery
in the United States from ten to
twenty hours, and mail may be dis
patched from the acific or on the
Gulf steamers from ten to fifteen
hours after the steamers have actual
ly left Seattle and New Orleans.
The “Nixie”—Its Cost.
What is a “nixie”? A “nixie” is
a piecp of mail so incompletely ad
dressed or poorly wrapped that it
| cannot be delivered nor returned
! nor returned without special or di
i rectory service. When directory ser
I vice fails, the letter or parcel is sent
1 to t he dead letter office, where it is
opened and the contents carefully ex
amined. If after this service there is
i no clue to the sender or addressee the
1 content is either sold or destrooyed.
Cot of directory service last year,
! S2,000,000.
Number of pieces o fmail receiv
i ing this service, 200,000,000.
Number of letters sent to dead loi
ter office, 21,000,000.
Numbere of parcels sent to dead
letter office §03,000.
Number of letters mai'ed in per
fectly blank envelopes, 100,000.
Amount received from sale of nn
deliverable parcels, $120,000.
( ash found loose or taken from un
deliverable letters, $55,623.96.
Value of stamps found as above,
§12,126.67.
Value of checks and drafts found as
above, $3,546,542.54.
.Alaska Service
Conditions for delivering- mail in
Alaska are difficult. In addition to
the many steamer routes we have
sixty-eight dog routes, which are run
in relays, and all together employ
3,000 dogs. We have 174 postoffices
, which, in addition to delivering mail
to the population in the immediate vi
cinity in which these offices are locat
ed. give service to over 600 outlying
: localities.
The greatest difficult' in giving
correct dispatch to mail in Alaska is
| cauased by many persons addressing
mail to these localities without giving
i the name of the postoffice serving that
j locality. The matter is now under
| consideration hy the. department, to
J prohibit the dispatch of any mail in
; Alaska, unless addressed either to or
! via a postoffice. In this the potal de
j partment has no desire to work a
! hardship on any patron of the mails.
! On t he contrary, ,11 not> i emulooyes
! tire anxious to give the very best ser
vice possible, but in order to accom
plish this we must have the co-opera
tion of the mailing public. For ex
ample, a letter addressd to Willow
Creek, Alaska, would, have a slight
chance of reaching, the intended des
tination wjtho.out delay, as there are
fifteen Will’* Creeks in Alaska, but
a letter addressed to Willow Creek,
via Fortuna Ledge, Alaska, would be
delivered without unnecessary delay.
We have on file in this office a list
containing t he names of 602 locali
j ties with the postoffice service there
I to. This list is not prepared to be
used alone as a directory for incom
pletely addressed mail, but to tenable
us to .assist you in addressing your
mail correctly. If in doubt, inquire of
i Ladies’
j Novelties Store
> McGrath
Stop and Think!
Where can I Ret a nice present
to send my friends?
Go to Miss E. Marsh’s Little
Cash Store, where things are nice
and new.
Silk Dresses
Sweaters
All kinds of Silks
Hose
Hair Nets
Ladies’ Wear
Pretty Dolls
Suitcases and Trunks
Miss E. Marsh
Proprietor
your postmaster before mailing your
letter or parcel.
Some Suggestions.
By the observance of a few simple
rules, the mailing public can not only
save millions of dollars for the pos
tal department, or in the final analy
sis the taxpayer, but also effect a
great direct, benefit throough im- ■
proved service. Address letters plain- i
ly .leaving out nothing that will assist
in the delivery.
Every person s hould know his own !
address, if not that of his correspond-'
ent. Put yoour complete address in
the upper left hand corner of your
letter. If you rent a postoffice box
cultivate the habit of making you>
box number part of your address.
This is a grc-at advantage in the cas<
proper ret urn address -will l e r*
tu rned to the writer if not delivered.
Request yoour correspondent V di
rect mail giving your complete ad
dress.
Put the stamp in the upper rjght
hand corner, as all canceling ma
chines .are set to strike that corner.
Parcels should be addressed with
care. Write or print the address
plainly on one side only, with your re
turn ddress in the upper left hand
corner as in addressing a letter As
an additional precaution, the address
and your return should he placed in
side the parcel, so that delivery can
be made even though the wrapper
should be destroyed. Use strong cord
and stoo.H paper. It i.. interesting to
know that of the 80.'.000 parcels
cmf c.nfw hrda hr nit v. mfwypwy
| reaching the dead letter office last
j year, 20 per cent, or 201,000 of them,
! got n.to this predicament through in
i sufficient or improper wrapping.
Not Impossible.
i An old New York furnier attended
i a big picnic at Birighampton and
| stayed over to watch the dancing at
j night. lie hadn’t been out in the
, world much, and he was deeply lm- j
i pressed vith the girls clothes at
that, dance.
“Some, of ti e fee os’ clothe* I see \
here,” he said, “pluumb nuts me >;i
mind of a barbwire fence ’
j Somebody asked him why.
| “Well,” said he, “it’s ’his way
.without, obstructin’ the view.”—Kan
[ sas fit yStar.
Tokotna
Cigar Store
Tobaccos
Cigars
Soft Drinks
Fred Dubois
Proprietor
CHARLIE’S
LAUNDRY
McGrath, Alaska
A Bath in a Real
Bath Tub
Shoe Repairing
Sign Writing
Paper Hanging
Charles Rebhun
The Handy Man,
ATTENTION, l’lONEEHH.
itegular meeting of Pioneei rgloo, i
Wednesday night, January 20, at 8 j
o’clock,
Such a Cat.
Motiier— I'm ashamed of yoou,
Betty! ',Vny hare you whipping poor
pussy?
Betty—Cos he’s dirty. He spits on
his feet and wipes the mon hi.- face.
—Business World.
PROFESSIONAL
Mrs. Jean McLean
Notary Public
Toko to a. Alaska
Rough axi l Dressed Lum
ber g f All Kinds
HWO LUMBER CO,
xmmmumaa
<
A Dredging or Hydraulicing
Proposition, Yankee Creek
Abou miles long. ■extending from No. i below discovery to
ihe mouti of the creel:.
Pay located all along: for a distance of about three miles from
upper end and prett, well prospected and cross-cut.
Average depth of g-ound is from 7 to 20 feet. Top is all black
muck,that can be : c ■ .i freely. No rock bigger than one’s fist.
Ground ill go fro ■ 15 cents to ?1 per square foot of bedrock.
Ditch on the ground, 3 miles long, together with water rights.
Ground is pretty well.cleared. There is also a drain, 3 miles long.
Also a water right on Ready Bullion creek, from which water can
be brought to Yankee creek with a, ditch less than a mile long
(4,900 feet), with a pressure of 120 feet, being 1000 feet to the
work from the ditch.
After doing away with muck there will be from 4 to 0 feet of
dirt to handle.
Only about £11,000 has been taken ont.
Prospecting work during the past winter has resulted in finding
values that run up to $1 per Square foot of bedrock.
I will either sell the ground or give a lease on it. If the prospect
is satisfactory to the buyer, a cash payment will be expected.
For further information, terms, etc., call on ground, or write or
telegraph me.
ED NOLLETTE,
Tokctna, Alaska.
mmm
FOR SALE.
Large tank heater. Inquire at
Kusko Times.
I OR SALE.
Nine good traveling dogs. Fifty
lollars each. Vo trouble; fast. Also
light hickory basket sled, toe lines,
ill complete, at a bargain.
J\ MICHELS, McGrath.
Court Clothes.
Front Slreet, Tokotna
Mrs. Fred Dubois - Prop.