Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-12-06
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
REpoRH.oF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL.
Posr orFrcE DEPARTMENT,
wAsnIscToS, NOVEMBER 30, 1851

WAsHISGToS, NOVEMBER 20, 1851.
SIR Attic close of the fiscal year ending the Sot
day of June last, there in operation, thin tn
United States CLIO mail routes their aggregate Length
was 1885, 200 miles and s. 544 employed
thereon
The annual ofhe mails those routes
So 272 252 miles; the thereof 49, 1911 90
being about six cents four mills per mile
OF these 3d. 272 252 miles of annual tran lsportaton
S56s, 7o7 miles required to be performed upon ral
roads, cost co. being about eey cents
mills per me 454 982 miles in steamboats,, at cost al
$454 1913 90; being about eight three ills miles
1925 5SS miles in coaches, at cost OF Sl,oi1 1880
being about five three mills per mile and s5
miles in modes specified cost of 1884, ss8 90;
being about four cents eight millsIer mile
- The mail service in California and Oregon had been
irregular in its performance and mperecty reported
that it was not embraced in the last annual report from
this Department and is therefore included in the fol-
lowing statement Of the of
The inland service the close Of the last fiscal year.
Excluding that in California and Oregon when COM
pared With the service the close IF the preceding year.
stated my last annual report shows increase of
1854 miles in the length Of mabreutes; of 855 In
the number of miles Of annual transportation and ef
$547, 10 in the annual cost of transportation.
OF such increase of transportation the railroad and
steamboat service amounts 22e 635 miles, at in
creased of S276f42; being increase of about
cent. the "a
per cent aggregate cost the coach service la
miles, at increased cost of 1892 ST. being an increase
of about IN -a-a
cent in aggregate and the transportation modes
service specified miles increased
of S37 AGO. being increase Of about $40 per cent
in transportation and 40 per cent in aggregate cost
To this increase has been added the service in California
and Oregon which is first reported with sufficient
curacy to be carried into the annual statement
The annual transportation in California at the close Of
the fiscal year 53I 4l6 miles 81 an annual cost of
S130,210. This service, when compared with that
ascertned have been in operation prior the
made under the general lettings of April last
shows increase in the annual of e3 0
per cent; and decrease in annual aggregate of
Z $40 per cent
fornia about twelve cents nine mills per mile in coaches
about anty-one mills per mile; and in modes
specified about thrtyone cents three mills per mile
while the of similar service in the United States
GLIDING Oregon and the acqaired Territories is in
steamboats, about eight per mile; coaches about
Eve and mills per mile and modes speei
fed about four and three mills per mile The prices
now paid in California believed to he moderate
pared with the general prices upon theiFacifc coast
The annual transportation IN Oregon the close of the
last fiscal year las cen be ascertained}
3049S mles, at annual cost of Slf, $685. or about
sxtvfye and four mills per mile The present annual
transportation IN Oregon increased under the new
contracts which went into operation and after the first
day OF July last &C. 900 miles, at an annual cost of
$40 AL being increase Of ts $50 per in trans
portaon and of lob per cent in aggregate OF this
service 240 miles is be performed ir steamboats, at an
annual of SIG, 600, under contract made July 4
1850 for the remainder of the contract term in that
section and of the residue sore miles is to be performed
in steamboats, a cost of 81 AS and 55je5O miles in
modes specified cost of S22 s93 about forty
one cents three mills per mile.
There were on the 3oth day Of june last six foreign