The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-12-07

PosT OsFICE DEPARTMENT,
Washington, November 80. 1891


Sir AT the close OF the fiscal year ending the 3Oth
day of June last there operaiion within the
United States. 6.l7O mail routes their aggregate length
ls6.2s0 miles and 5ll contractors were employed
thereon. f.
The annual transportation OF the mails on those routes
We. aSs ms. @ the annna AMIN ns eos is nereoi
or these So 27a 232 miles OF annual transportation
ss6s. TOT miles are required 10 be performed upon rail-
i've % mills per mile ssa miles in % steamboats, % 'sa' al
cost OF CASA 1898. being about eight cents three mills
per mile is.726,3ss miles in coaches, at cost OF
O4T39. being about five three mills per mile
and 932l .975 miles in modes specified at cost OF
se4.6S3. being about four cents eight mills per mile
The mail service in California and Oregon had been SO
irregular 10 in performance and impefeclly reported
that moi embraced in the last annual report from
this dsp.rnsni ,na = not therefore included e in ,he fol-
ton The inland service a the close O the last fiscal
year. (excluding that in California and Oegon.) when
compared with The service at the close OF the preceding
year, a. stated 10 my last annual report. shows in
ef Is, ,a34 miles in the length Of mail routes Of
6l62s55 TO- the number OF miles Of annual raaspor,a
ton; and Of $347ilo in the annual cost Of transpor
aion. N
OF such increase Of transportation the railroad and
deaboat service amounts 10 220635 miles. at an in
creased cost of $276,742, being increase of about
30 $40 per cent in the transportation, and about a 4lO
per cent in aggregate cost the coach service
miles, stan increased cost Of $2a2s72, being increase
Of about 3 q 10 per cent in transportation and 20 A. 10
per cent IN aggregate cost and the transportation in
modes OF service not specified to 6l3036 miles, in
creased cost OF $37406 being increase OF about
per cent ii transportation and ITO per cent in aggrc-
gate To this increase has been added the service in
Csliionia and Oregon, which is now first reported with
sufficient accuracy be carried into the annual statement
The annual transportation 10 California at the close OF
the fiscal year was 537476 miles, an annual cost OF
Sl30270 This service when compared with that ascer
,ained TO have been in operation prior the new con-
tracts made under the general lettings OF April last shows
increase IN the annual transportation OF 1903 ITO per
cent and decrease in annual aggregate cost of 9.l0
per cent.
The present cos. OF transportation in steamboats, in
Cahlonia il about twelve cents nine mills per mile in
coaches about twenty one cents mills per mile and
in modes not specified abon hry.one cents three mills
per mile while the cost of similar service in the United
States excluding oregon and the newly acquired Terri
tories, is 10 steamboats, about eight cents per mile in
coaches about nve cents and two mills per ms and in
modes not specified about four cents and three mills per
mile. The prices paid in California ara believed to
be modersfs compared with the general prices upon the
Pacific coast.
The annual transportation in Oregon at the close Of the
last fiscal year was (as as can be ascerained)
3o96 miles annual of $l9 93S or about sixty
I'VE cents and four mills per mile The present annual
transportation In Oregon was increased under the new
contracts which went into operation and after the first
day Of July last to &c. 800 miles, an annual cost of
S0l-beng an increase OF 1l9 $40 per cent in trans
poation. and OF l03 cent in aggregate or this
service 6240 miles is TO be performed steamboats, an
annual coet OF $l0.O00 under made July
$780, for the remainder of the usual contract term in that
section, and OF the residue 1910 miles be performed
in steamboats, AT OF $744s, and IS $3.50 miles in
modes not specified a cost OF &22 993, about forty
one cents three mills per mile
There on the 30h day OF June last six foreiga