| Show Five Million Mail Sacks Would Make a Solid Line from Boston to San SanF Francisco Pounds Shipped in One Month Vicinity of Vernal I That practically all supplies o of at every every ev ev- ery cry nature sent into the basin are shipped from tram Salt Lake Provo Ogden or Grand Junction Colo b by parcel post is the statement of C. C M. M f U. U S. S Inspector tor who yesterday returned from a a al altrip I trip to that territory I I IBy By Dy wiry of Mack Watson and to Vernal approximately t pounds of or parcel post matter was wasI wasI I I sent cent last month Upon a yearly basis I this would aggregate pounds per year I I By way wa- of Helper to Duchesne approximately approximately ap- ap proximately pounds of or par par- par par- parcel i I eel cel post matter went through last month At Thompsons Thompson's there were were on hand last week pounds one solid carload of or which was ford forda fori Cor foria j ja a new store to be bo opened at Monti- Monti Monti 1 j cello I A unique feature of or the recent I shipments is the sending into Ver Vernal Vernal veri nal by parcel post of enough facing acing I brick for tor the construction of or a two I story tory business block The bricks which are made by the Salt Lake Pressed Premed Brick Drick company llave been shipped regularly during the past couple of or months in packages of ten bricks each The postage per parcel Is 52 cents the basin being in thu second parcel post district from rom Salt Lake Salt The Tile rue oricK brick crates weigh eign 4 s IS pounds I apiece and have to be taken fifty fifty- five miles mlles by automo automobile lle stage fiftY I So far bricks have been sent Into the basin f for far r this one building I In addition to bricks such commodities commodities com com- I I as scythes pumps automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile tires canned goods shingles and nails are sent into the basin I through the parcel post system A rough estimate is to the effect that the stamps sold on goods shipped shipp shipp- ed Into the basin will approximate In value annually at the present present present pres pres- ent rate of traffic trade Great Number of Sacks I IThe The ThO people who see mail mall bags j loaded on postal cars from rom the mail I r wagons of the government or see them thrown off at the station in the town own can form rm no Idea of the immensity immensity im im- im j of this branch ranch of the pu public I 1 service Statistics and tables of figures may have little Interest for for forthe the ordinary reader but when it Is stated that the total number of mailbags mail mall I bags used for transporting the mails malls I amount to about five millions and if I placed end to end would stretch from j I Boston Doston to San Francisco and extend extend Into the Pacific ocean some estimate I Imay may be formed armed of the tremendous mass of such equipment needed Inthe in inthe I of business i the dispatch public I Pieces Go Through Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington I At the beginning of this I taken to an Inventory was I learn what equipment for railway I postal transportation the government I had on hand It was discovered that the grand total of such property was pieces of which were mail mall pouches were wen were sacks Backs and were mail mall locks I Since this Inventory was made the growth of the thO service required the purchase of over one ono million and a I half haIr mall mail bags to meet the steadily steadily Increasing demand This business of ithe j i the government is so enormous that thata a tabulation on made In t tie e railway mall mail I service two years ago showed that the eight man mall bag depositories of the United States received and sent out again during the year just preceding nearly sacks and pouches As the real amount of stock clock then I was about it will be bo seen seem I that this equipment was waa handled ten i times by the system of distribution I devised to relieve congestion at one ono I demands at p plIt iet and meet pressing another without which arrangement the peculiar exactions of the servi servie e e ethe could not be met The amount th thus thus thus' s handled Is now very much larg lan v sacks and pouches passing to and fro I through these depositories and the tho mail man bag storehouse at Washing lJ m aggregating pieces Cost Eighty Ce Each The money required from time to time for Cor the purchase of this great supply and the price to be paid so su as to come within the appropriation were matters of grave concern to those In charge chargo Congress supplied d I I the tho funds but the sups y y yand yand I and the price to be bo pall pail so as to I come within the appropriation were matters of grave concern to those In n n charge Congress supplied th the funds but j the supply could be he bought at the lowest price price price-gov- gov government standards maintained wa wae was the problem In the summer of 1913 the tho department department was eras paying I for its ordinary mall mail pouches I This price was deemed too high and i experts were set to work to devise e I J i I something which would be of equal durability at a less cost The ro- ro which the department contracted forand for tor forand torand and purchased for Cor less than 60 GO cents each and this this- pouch has been produced produced produced pro pro- in largo quantities and is replacing replacing re re- placing those formerly under conS con contract tract Experts were also placed on the proposition of of designing a cheaper cheap cheap- er er but equally effective pouch for tor forthe forthe the exchange of at malls mails by moving trains The department was then paying for these catcher pouch pouch- I es Within a n short time a pouch was evolved designed on scientific I principles which Is far better i service and at a greatly reduced cost viz vh 80 SO cents each Low Ow Cost of Repairing The saving in this production of ot equipment will amount to a very large sum for Cor there have been heen over of ot these new style stylo bags hags placed In the service within the last two years at a reduction o of fifty per and this economy will of course continue and grow In amount as tho further demand for supply is met While the old style of equipment required expert attention to keep them In repair this newer pr product duct requires but little and is kept ept in good condition at a nominal cost by machine operators The repair and proper maintenance of mail mall bags is or In an establishment located at Washington Experienced and efficient people are ani only employed for repair work must be well done before bags can again be permitted to enter the service ser Th number repaired and placed in iii good condition during the past year was over a million Kept ept Sanitary One of the dl difficulties connected with this repairing process which was also something of a hardship to I Ithe the operators was the accumulated i dirt and dust which attached to these bags when returned from Cram the service and which was a menace to the health of or those so employed No attention attention attention at at- had ever been paid to the dangerous and unsanitary conditions under which this work was done No attempt to cleanse these bags from Cram the tho foul impurities they gath Bath gathered gathered ered and collected had over ever been made and those employed at the work men and women were forced to Inhale the dust which an ordinary shaking out by hand fails falls to remove which was considerable as the shaking shaking shak shako ing out process was hastily and Im Imperfectly imperfectly perfectly done dono The official In charge saw the need of a charge change to better i methods and were werf at once taken to It Correspondence Correspond Correspond- ence was had with ith manufacturers of at machinery both In this and foreign countries A system was finally adopted consisting of large tumbling barrels each g a a. a a. a capacity for Cor holding several hundred bags I Driven rapidly rapid y by electric power the dust confined to a tightly o ed room and carried off by y blowers and lodged In Immense canvass receptacles receptacles receptacles re re- resembling a dirigible le balloon balloon balloon bal bal- loon when Inflated this process was wab I found thoroughly suitable for careful care care- careful care I ful tests showed that all dust was completely removed Four Fou a day arc are now treated by hy this pro pro- cess Life Ufo of Mall Sacks The Tho life of at a mall mail bag Is about six years but the rough usage to which I It Is exposed renders renGers many of them them unfit for repair Such bags bacs pass Into ln- ln in- in into to the hands of expert 1 I I. I specters who utilize such parts as still have some II i good material left In making what Is I known as pieced bags Many are arethus arethus thus reclaimed and returned to the I service constituting with the sale of i I i i condemned material mater salvage of I the mail mall bag repair shop The bags or parts of bags which can not be I utilised are sold Bold under yearly contract con con- I tract to the tho highest bidder The Thel amount thus realized and turned into Into Into In In- to the tho treasury for tho the past year was over The advent of at the parcel post and the great Increase In postal business has made It necessary to enlarge the scope scope of the repair shop because at times it was found Impossible to obtain obtain ob oh- tain tamu bags from the tho contractor In quantities sufficient to meet the de de- I mand A manufacturing feature was therefore added and during the tho past two years over a n. quarter of a million bags hags have been produced without additional additional ad ad- expense for labor or hardship hardship hardship hard hard- ship to the tho These of prudent and economical management manage manage- meat ment and thoughtful regard for the Interests of those engaged In such employment Is thought worthy of at mention and this story of achievement achieve achieve- I mont ment has haa therefore been written l o IJ Jt |
