Deseret Evening News | 1900-06-16 | Page 25 | Growth of the Postoffice

f Of o oTilE f ff f TilE TUE POSTOFFICE f lH Away back in III the early sixties when the Salt Bait Lake was situated in III inthe the old Constitution building Josh Billings wa was looking after atter t the man malls just as al he is II today In iii the big Dooly block Needless to N say Iw he h head dl the record tar lur lb term of ate oue service not lIot only b by yea years but by decades In those day di said lei Ir to th time Ne News representative sat ill Stein wu we the postmaster r and nd the late lit George Swan was his hili assistant Duncan Mc tc and mIf myself with another bOCher u tb the 0 allies toree tomi which wu was afterward under Postmaster Hammer to th the Postmaster and th three men little force was able to attend to all the buln busIness however I her ber that tile the sale ot of to train U 10 to II 12 a day That shows tb the difference between the of bust bustness list ness thin then and tOlla today Tile Tb receIpts P tro troIt front 01 It ot of stamps and box rent uNer Mr r Stein on 01 the hula gives fl toot foot up about 1 1000 B a quarter while hU the to tram the tho same mil 10 tIt for tor the