Uncle Sam Makes $26,362

UNCLE SAM MAKES $26,362

Out Of Five Postoffices Of Washtenaw.

ANN ARBOR IS NINTH

And Ypsilanti Twenty-third of Michigan Cities in The Size of Postoffice Receipts.

In the official table just given out at Washington, of the receipts and expenditures of the presidential postoffices for the year ending June 30, 1899, the receipts of the presidential offices in Washtenaw county are put down as follows :

Gross Receipts,  Exp.,  Net Rev.,  Percent. Exp. to Receipts.

Ann Arbor, $37,503 31,219 16,284 57

Ypsilanti, 15,4112 9,671 5.821 63

Chelsea, 3,869 1,790 2,079 46

Manchester, 2,743 1,399 1,344 51

Milan, 1,830 996 834 54

Total, $61,437 35,075 26,362 57

The postoffices of the state which exceed Ann Arbor in receipts in their order, are Detroit, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Saginaw, Lansing, Battle Creek, Jackson and Marshall. Marshall has had a tremendous increase in receipts owing to a lot of patent medicine advertisers locating there. Between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti in size of receipts are the following cities in the order named: Bay City, Port Huron, Flint, Adrian, Muskegon, Albion, Owosso, Marquette, Wyandotte, Menominee, Saginaw, w. s. , Pontiac and Benton Harbor.

The increase in the net revenue to the government from the various offices of the county, after expenses were paid, over the previous year, was as follows : Ann Arbor $230, Ypsilanti $128, Chelsea $112, Manchester $106.