Series 29895
Spring City (Utah) US Post Office records

Dates: 1898-1949.

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These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.

Scope and Content

This series contains records kept by the post office tracking services it offered, namely money orders and post office boxes. One ledger in this series tracks domestic money orders and was kept by the postmaster. The ledger contains such information the amount received from domestic money orders, the numbers of the orders issued, the date of each summary recorded, and the total balance of the post office's money order account, as well as a record of any mistakes made in the accounting process. The second ledger in this series tracks post office box ownership and payment. The ledger contains such information as the box number, the name of the owner, the amount paid, and the date paid. This ledger is arranged numerically by post office box number and thereunder chronologically.

Arrangement

Chronological by date of creation.

Custody History

Spring City transferred the records in this series to the State Archives in May 2019.

Access Restrictions

This series is classified as Public.

Preferred Citation

Cite the Utah State Archives and Records Service, the creating agency name, the series title, and the series number.

Processing Note

This series was archivally processed by Mahala Ruddell in December 2019.

Container List

BOX DESCRIPTION
1 1898-1902; Domestic Money Order Cash Book
1 1935-1949; Box and Key Register

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