Items of Interest July 17, 1902 Issue

Items of Interest

The first rural free delivery route was established six years ago. July 1, 1902, there were 9,461 routes in operation; 536 more will be added on August 1, and 10.198 petitions for routes are under consideration. The State of Iowa has 954 routes and thirty-two additional routes will be placed in operation on August 1. Arkansas is at the bottom of the line with only twenty routes.

The last Congress appropriated $15,000 in an attempt to prevent the buffalo from becoming extinct. William A. Jones of Topeka, Kan., has been appointed by President Roosevelt at a salary of $1,800 per annum to take charge of the national herd in the Yellowstone Park and replenish it as he is able.

The annual coinage statement which has just been issued by the director of the mint shows that the total coinage in the United States during the fiseal year ending June 30, 1902, amounted to $94,526,678. Of this amount $61,980,572 was in gold, $30,116,369 in silver, and the balance in minor coins.

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