Rural Mail Routes

Demands for Rural Mail Routes Schedules and Contracts in 1901

Valley City to Daily and return

6 days per Wk.

Annual Salary: $346.66.

 

 

Valley City to Wilma* and return

6 days per Wk.

Annual Salary: $189.58.

 

 

 

Litchville to Oakville** and return

6 days per Wk.

Annual Salary: $414.38.

 

 

 

Sanborn to Sanborn (Round Trip)

3 days per Wk.

Annual Salary: $269.70.

 

 

 

Lucca to Fort Ransom and return

6 days per Wk.

Annual Salary: $476.00.

 

 

 

Minnie Lake to Hope and return

2 days per Wk.

Annual Salary: $181.09.

*Wilma was an inland postotfice in Baldwin Township.

**Oakville was an inland postottice on the Sheyenne River east of Kathryn at the location of the Walker Mill.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 330