Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 10
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, May 2, 1907
Salaries of Rural Mail Carriers.
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Washington, April
29.--Postmaster General Meyer approved the detailed adjustment of salaries of
rural free delivery carriers as submitted by Assistant Postmaster DeGraw.
The new schedule, which will become effective July 1, next, will make a graded
increase in the compensation of carrier or from 9 to 25 per cent, based upon the
number of miles traversed. The readjustment adopted, with the increase of
upwards of $6,000,000 made in the appropriation by congress, will involve an
aggregate expenditure of rural service during the next fiscal year of nearly
$85,000,000.
The schedule follows:
Routes of 24 or more miles, $900 per annum;22 to 24, $864; 20 to 22,
$810; 18 to 20, $720; 16 to 18, $630;14 to 16, $540; 12 to 14, $504; 8 to 10,
$430; 6 to 8, $396.
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