Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1892 — For Mail Delivery. [ARTICLE]

For Mail Delivery.

Contra Costa County, California, has originated a system of numbering country houses which deserves attention. Like every other Western device of the sort, it is simple and practicable. All the country roads are divided into blocks, ten to a mile, by imaginary circles radiating from the county seat, and each block is given two numbers, the odd number for the left of the road and the even for the right. Of Course in the West, where the counties are nearly all square blocks, the choice of a central point is much easier than in the East. The Postmaster General has the plan under considerattor in connection with the free-delivery system tor general adoption.