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Show SCORE FOR SALT LAKE, Th. City Foil Olllo.'i (lu.lnr.i It A n ay op th. Iacrra,. .c.l.. Postruanter 15enton ran well fool confident con-fident that he is ths hr.nl of ono of tlio most prosperous poatollicua iu the country. coun-try. In the United States mail for Juoe a column or more of official figures fig-ures respecting tho business done by various offices are set forth by Albert H. Scott chief of the salary and allowance allow-ance division in the first assistant postmaster post-master general. There are UN iirst-class iirst-class offices in the I'liited States and out of the total number there is only twenty-one which show a greater increase in-crease than the Salt Lake City pustoliiee. For instance the home office w hose increase in-crease during the year ending March ! 81. ls!l. "as '..', 1 100 over the Omaha i office. Kansas citv is about $JU0i) I behind Salt Lake. Compared with the St. iai Of);oe Lake is STOOD ahead. The incnase of the home oiiice against that of tht i otlice al Albany, .V., is nearly doiiblH. LosAu(feles. with a population of aimut the same as Salt Lake, is J.'o.n-'m behind the increase of this oilieu. Coluiubus. ' O., and New Haven. Conn., each with a population twice that of Salt Lake, can take a back seat because the i,,ca'i ollice shows twice the increase ot rer-i enue. These tijrnrea are all right and ! the facts speak volumes fur Salt Lake. ! While other offices are slipping bark I ward thin one is advancing grandly to the front. If thero is a bettor managed establishment anywhere trot it out. ! |