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Show POSTOEFICE SIOWS ' MEEI 101 Institution Does Business of $1,288,578.83 in 'J Twelve Months. Softie statisticians contend that if you want the truth about any city's business grotrth or decline, investigate the official records of its postoftice. Presuming this to be truth, Ogden can boast of a business busi-ness growth in 1915 that is proportional to an increase of- approximately $10,000 in postal business. And the figurels are not based on money orders or postal savings banks, but on actual postal business busi-ness having to do with the sale of stamps, postal cards and stamped envelopes. With a total business of $1,285,578.83 for the year just closed. $123,09 . 42 covers cov-ers the postal business alone, according accord-ing to the reports complied by Rufus Garner, assistant postmaster. This amount is a 10,000 increase as compared with 5113,605 . 4S for the previous year. H is reasonable to presume that the city's business development may well be measured meas-ured bv an increase In i,ts postal business of S72.296.37 since 1905. ' The following statements concerning the business of theOgden postofrlce during dur-ing 1915 are based on the oflicial reports compiled for the postal department at Washington. D. C-: Postal business for the pasf ten years 1905 $51,013.05 19u6 53.801.05 1907 62.9S2.63 190S . 72,379.5$ 1909 -. 76,846.42 1910 83,416.91 1911 8,9,373. 07 1912 S9.467.S5 1913 fc 9IV.244.44 1914 'l13, 9'V). 48 1915 J23;303.42 Money orders issued No. of orders. . Amt. Fees. Domestic . ..35,901 S2S5.641.21 $2,219.77 Foreign . ... 2,179 45,289.94 537.20 Total . . . .38.080 $330,931.15 J2.756.07 Monev orders paid No. of orders. Amt. Domestic 49,530 $435,509.72 Foreign 99 3,182.57 Total 49,629 $438,692.29 Total money order business.. $ 772,380.41 V-ipmittances from other post-offices post-offices 392.SS9.00 Postal business during same period 123. SOS. 42 Total $1.2SS,5i8.83 postal savings business for the vears 1?H and 19J5 1914. 1915 Number of deioiitR 623 633 Number with Jrawala . . . . . . . .410 49'"' |