Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1834-01-08


reduced to the nominal amount OF
S23o,s49 OF
But it has subsequently
been ascertaincd, that there
had been expenses incur
red for transportation per-
formed prior to the 1st OF ~.
July, 1929, which were not
embraced in that account,
to the amount of S64,ats 7e
Which reduced the real surplus to
Sl66.6dO 81
The anual transportation of the mail
was, on the Isl Jolly, 1888, 2c,854485
mic s.
The annual amount Of the transporta-
ton of the mail in stages and steamboats,,
on the lst of July 1929, was 6,5o7Sa8
miles.
The annual amount of the transpGta-
lion of the mail in stages and steamboats,,
on he lst of July 1888, was la,322,b77
miles. -
The expense of transporting the mail
for the year ending 30th June, 1929, was
SI.l5a,644 81.
The expense of transporting the mail
for the year ending 30th June, 1883, was
Sl,894.68 O8.
The gross amount of hostages, conai-
tuting the revenue of the Department,
W az, for the year ending 3otb June, 1929,
Sl,7O7,4l8,42.
The gross amount of hostages for the
year eading 3oth June, 1883, was $685.
So II.
The Incidental expenses of the Depart
ment for the year ending 3oth June, 1929,
amounted to 500, 249 08.
The incidental expenses of the Depart
ment for the year ending 3Oth June, 1888,
amounted to S87,7ol 81.
The number Of post offices in the Uni
ted States on the lst of July, 1929, was
1904.
On the LIST of July 1882, the number
of post offices in the United States was
1927.
The increase of the annual transpor
iation of the mail within the four years
ending the 3Oth of June. 1888, is 1871 81,
4S5 miles nearly equal to the whole "a
mount of tranporstalion in 1923.
The increase of the annual amount of
hostages within the same period. is $500,
li9 IS, and the whole amount is more
than the double Of what it was in 1926.
The average expense of transportin..
the mail in 1929, was eight cents and four
tenius of a cent per mile.
I'ae average expense of transporting
tn mail 10 1888, is seven cents and fifty-
seven hundreths of a cent per mile; max
lug difference in the rate per milo, Of
eighty-three hundredths of cent, equal
for the whole service, to S222,a92 % per
year less, in proportion tothe service per
formed, than the expense of transporta-
ton in 1929, besides great increase in
expedition between the principal com,
mercial cites, and much greater proper.
ton of the whole performed in stages.
[The report states that after the law Of
the last Congress establishing new mail
routes. the present length of mail roads
in the United States, amounts to ll9,9lt
miles.
The annual transportation on the frs
of July last was in stages, l7,G93,85e
miles. In stea ), boats 528,737, o.
horseback and in sulkies $751; 1909 miles
total Increase Transportation from l s.
July, 1882 to LIST July, 1888, 3,229,46;
miles.
The method in which the accounts o
the expenses oftransporting the mail have
always been kept in this department, ha
led to misrepresentation of the means o
extending improvements in mail facilities
1t appears from the earliest records of tn
department, to have been rule not t.
enter to the credit Of a contractor, nor 4
charge to the account of transportation
the expense Of carrying the mail on hi
route. till after he had signed his contrac
and bond, and returned them to the dc
partment with proper security, thong
the service may have been regularly pei
formed, aud, in many instances, the me-
neys actually paid. 1t has sometime
happened that contracts of the creates