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Show I POST RECEIPTS I STEADILY GAIN Record Constantly Upward Shows Increase in Popu-lation Popu-lation and Business There has been a steady Increase both in population. In business hOUSl I and in buildings of ' residential character In Ogden since 1900. I These facts ire indicated In a poi-me poi-me manner by the steady Increase I i In postal receipts The total receipts In 1901 nmoiint-r.) nmoiint-r.) to $26.7 16 04. Ten year later t jic receipts for the year amountel io JS3.416.91. I With the exception o" 1912, which vfas a fear of financial depression throughout the country, the postal receipts show a stea-ly increase as I evidenced by the follbwiti.; table: I 111 ... 89, 9T 8.00 !i2 S9.467.S.". I 1-913 90.JM.4I 111 i5)i4 102.710.91 I - iv ik 185.601'. 00 1917 158. S01. 42 l, Jns ISO, ion. 6: i : i i 191,545 . 63 I 1O20 185j02J.60 17.633 83 win STAMPS CHANGED , The apparent decrease in poMtal re-H re-H qejlpts In 1920 as compared to .919 fa explained by the fa t thai In lime of I 519 the postal officials discontinued the use of the three-cent nostag" stamp and began Issuing the two- " During the past year many lm-provements lm-provements have been put into opera- i ion in gden. Postmaster Rufun B CJarncr said. Excellent results were had in Og- i). he said, by the mall early and H Yten campaign" whl h had resulte 1 In the postofflce being able to ren- I 1.t to the public a much better serv- lee in the dispatch of all kinds of rnall matter. In many instances, h" said, as much as 12 hours time had H been saved by the early mailing of luoth parcel post matter and letters and the congestion that was usual H 'Hiring the latter portion of the busi-dms busi-dms day had been lightened ronsid- H The publicity given the campaign bf the newspapei s had been com-J com-J irtended by former Postmaster Gen-H Gen-H ral Will H. Hays, he said, and also by the present officials. KXTF.N1 CARRIER SERVICJ J ' That the city was growing steadily, hjs said, was indicated by the reports fl made throughout the year by the arriers, which showed that in the southern section of the city entire Hl blocks ihtft "had been vacant had H ovv been built up and the rarnc-r ! lacrvice extended In them. II T This had also resulted in an im- provemcnt in the roads and the side- walks, it being one of the require- J mcnts of the extension of carrier i I service that the proposed tri be In a district with concrete side- I walks. good roads, and that the j houses be provided with receptacles ir. which to deposit the mall. The parcel post has been a boon I to families residing in rural dl not reached bf railroad transporta-H transporta-H lion, he said In one case in the Uintah section the brick for an entire brick house Hl I is delivered by parcel post the ce- ) iiient for the building of n-mont dams in that section. as well as lu the Roosevelt section and the Jackson f Hole country of Wyoming had ! shipped by parcel post and there being sent into that section by tho j same means today coal used by black-1 1 i smiths. This developed, he said, shortly af-tet af-tet the maximum weigh! ol pounds per parcel post pirkage was 1 raised to 60 pound- .and later on to f 70 pounds for parcels within th-H th-H third zone. The annual payroll at the postof-f postof-f lice amounts to approximately i J75.000. |