New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-03
POSTMASTER GENERALS REPORT.
PosT OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Dec.

POST OfBICE DEPAkINthI, DoCs i, loOOs
SIR Since my last Annual Report the post ofaces
have been ncre ssed 1885, and numbered on 3oth june
last 1885, Three hundred and thirty-pise Of the
postmasters were appointed by the President BY and
with the advice and consent Of the Senate the yearly
commissions exceeding 81 900. On the 10Th june,
1882 the number Of post Offices in the United Ststes
was 20Ol showing an increase In the Last four yess
Of AGA.
On the Both OF June last there were In Operations
1872 mail routes. The number Of contractors wss
6372 The length Of these routes 10 estimated ct 49,.
642 miles, divided as follows, viz;
2O,323 miles Of Railroad.
1881 miles of Steamboat.
20, 453 miles of Coach.
l53,9l5 miles of Inferior grades.
The total annual transportation Of mails wa II ,37,-
s97 miles, costiDg OBS A. and divided - foows:
800 $50 miles by railroad ct a. $40 369-About ten
cents and six mills mile.
4,24O,l7O miles by steamboat, at tsdo,755-sbout
twenty cents and three mills mile.
l9,ll4,s9l miles by coach at d ,329, 35S-sbout7
cents mile.
2sI43, 40 miles by modes not specified a. s3I,Tl
81 cents per mile
Compared it'll the service Of June 30, 1855, there
10 an addition of II ,734 miles to the length Of nsp
routes 3,9O673l miles TO the total annual trsnsporss-
tior-beiDg about $40 per cent, and Of ESQ 3S to
the cost, or IL 40 per cent
The aggregate length of railroad routes has been In
cressed 1890 miles, and the annual Hsnsportatos
thereon 2.GO6sg miles-about 3iper cent, ats cost
Of $237 800, or IL 40 per cent.
The length Of steamboat routes has Deen increased
:32 miles, and the cost t35 49, although the annual
Transportation is less by 2ls657 miles, This resulted
mainly from putting in operation IN January last .
daily ,oute between New-Oreans ana CAIRO, Illinois
l75 miles, at cost OF $SS,"W per snnum. BOT Ior
,h. ronte there would now appear diminution Of
asmbost service amounting 10 743 miles In length Of
routes COZ 257 ia annual transportation and e937O
The addition to the lesgth Of coach routes has been
$50 niles to the annual transportation 255 3 miles
and TO the cost of sil3, 81. or 9 $40 per cent
The additional length Of inferior routes !, l62 miles;
or about per cent In transportation, and $40 pr
cent in cost.
The portions of additional sefvce in Caiiforns are
100 miles in length OF routez and l35 IA miles ID anf
portafiop, costing ~ 23.
In Oregon DO material change has taken piace, eno
10 cit. ali. ns or additions have been made " sns -
vice stated in my Annual Report OF 1922
MEXICO and Utah. 49,. 49,,
In Ntbrssks and Kansas, :, 23s miles nave oesn
added to the length Of routes and ~ .ga ma ~
animal trans ortatisn at coet Oh S'SS,oss.. -
whole service in these Territories po1 asHcs u, w.
I,potb of coach-routes, yo4 nnsss; s ~ Soa -.
pertsticn thereon, ,64s mikes; COST '" AVN
III CENT, ~ f,or routes l52 miles; annual irse..
LsSg.n o s,e IFS mics; cost, go rs about crns
ana ,ensh 10 3il6 miles; total transpostA0a'
,s,s "a. and The ccst, 90. l3S. .u,..I
2ns ioiio siDg tAbIs elbows the sstsosaos q 's's