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54TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT
2d Session. (No. 2447.
PUBLIC BUILDING AT MENOMINEE, MICH.
JANuARY 7, 1897.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of
the Union and ordered to be printed.
Mr. MILLIKEN, fr6itlie Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds,
submitted the following
REPORT.
rTo accompany H. R. 252.]
The Committee on Public Biildings and Grounds, to whom was
referred the bill (H. R. 252) for the erection of a public building at
Monominee, Mich., respectfully report as follows:
Menominee, the county seat of Menominee County, is situated on
Green Bay at the mouth of the Menominee River, and has a population
of 16,000, being the metropolis of what is known as the Upper Penin-
sula of Michigan, and ranking twelfth in size among cities of the State.
It-is a point -of great-commercial importance, but is noted-chietly for
the manufacture aild shipment of timber products, in which it stands
first in the United States. Three hundred million feet of luiiber,
besides laths and shingles, are annually manufactured hiei, and 4,000
men are employed by the sawmills and other fiactories within the city
limits.
The city has the Holly system of water works, an efficient paid fire
department, electric lighting throughout the city, 15 miles of electric
street railway, and 10 miles of paved streets.
Four railroad lines touch at Menominee, 11 trains arriving and depart-
ing daily, and 3 steamboat lines make regular trips to this port during
season of navigation.
There are 2 daily and 4 weekly newspapers published in the city,
which have a large circulation.
Menominee is a second-class free delivery post-ollice, employing 6 car-
riers and 3 clerks. The office now occupies a single storeroom contain-
ing about 2,000 square feet, half of which is set apart as a lobby, the
balance beingused for the entire business of the office, including
money-order and registry departments.
By reference to the report of the Auditor for the Post-Office Depart-
ment for the fiscal year ending June 30; 1895, the following will be
observed regarding the business of the Menominee-office for that year:
Gross receipts, $14,256.29; salary, $2,400; clerk hire, $1,900; rent,
light, and fuel, $608.94; other incidental expenses, $22.72; free delivery,
$4,919.28; total expenses, $9,850.94; leaving a'net revenue of $4,405.35.
It is believed that a space of about 5,000 square feet, properly arranged
with separate compartments for each department of the service, will
soon be actually required for carrying on the rapidly increasing busi-
ness of this office. The rent of the present quarters is $700 per annum.
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