The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-01-04

Annual Report OF the Postmsste General.
Posr OFrcB DEPARTMENT, Dec. 8, 1855.
Sy-The number OF Post offices established in the Uni
ted States during the year ending June go 1855, was
1G63, and the number discontinued sol, showing ne.
increase OF 8e2 The sites of 1913 have been
changed. The whole number of offices the 30lh of
June "a 4lo and the 3oth of November PATIO of
which 258 of the class the Postmases of which
appointed by the President The number of Postma.ers
appointed during the regular fiscal year, was 1903
70 lows To fill vacancies by rcsgnation o5e; by
movsls, $40; by Deaths 2s7; by change of AMI
sites, 26; and by establishment Of new Offices, 1858.
On the 30th June last there in operation 1893
mail routes The number OF contractors 703. The
length of these is estimated at 277 90s miles.
The total annual OF mails 81 4Ol 1866
miles, ing S. 345, $685. and divided follows viz
a miles by modes not specified at 81 430 Cos
50 cents mile 10 $50 lis miles by coach a. $2l5 o79
about 61s cents mile; 10 20e 400 miles BY railroad
s2,o73 0s9-about l0A cents mile 4459 S27 miles by
steamboat at $625 6o5a5ont II cents mile. Conpared
with the e1vce OF June 20 1884, actuay in operation
there of s97 OPS miles of
about 13a PEI cent and Of s675 22 5o100ta cost
about IA 4C0 per The increase of railroad service
is 3483 1872 miles, at cost of sS6636, being % 1910
per cent in Dsportaton, and l57s 10 COST rae in
creased transportation by modes specified is SIS 1T
miles shout 16 90 per cent costing SO ATS so l0O
OF 80 751OO per cent. The by coaches
less by 1925 628 miles, about 1873 per cent az d.
miDshed cost o. S3l 1851 or 92100 per cent. Steamboat
service, during the past year WAS reduced 81 1886 $50
miles, nearly 80 per cent and the increased $780,
367 27 per cent. Tnis ea change resulted mainly
from the reIetng Of contracts year ia the States
Kentucky. Tennessee, Adams, Mississippi, Arkansas,
LuisiaLa Texas, CaorL and the al Territories
comparison OF the steamboat service unter the
tracts which expired S0th June 1854 with that SON
June, 1855, under the contracts, commencing lst
July 1854, shows reduction Of $50 miles, about
Sc per cent in the annual transportation and add
he
Other sections of the Union the steamboat
has been increased miles, at increased sost Of
Ss6,247
The amount Of service in the foregoing general
statements chargeabe to California, are 692, 1ls
Steamboat transportation $50 miles, at $4,000,
or 20 cents mills per mile. coach transporta-
rot pesed miles At or
cents per mile. On two steamboat routes which
1900 prior to lst July 1854 the pay for the
$40 COO, 8 anticipated IN my last years report.
There has been a remarkable addition to the coach
porta yiz-ll6 per cent and yet the whole cost
is only "a per than last There was 81 per
cent service Of the inferior grades at 1l9 cent
higher cost the Goth June 1854 than 3oh June 1855
The apparent difference Is much eater but this arises
from transferring the Salt Lakeland San Diego route tbs
account OF service in Utah for the past year. it having
been changed the previous year to California
The total ncr Of all grades Of service in California
during the year ending s0th June last is 100 miles,
but Il cent Of transportation rhe toai saving Is
SIS 418, or II per cent.
In Oregon The service is as follows, wiz
Steamboat, 90 a52 mi ca, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $500
Mooes not specified, IS 5l2 IT, 1857
Coach. IL, $50 miles Observation-Disclosures. 1850
The steamboat service has been decreased about 2s per
the year. The for the year ending Both
June, 1854 100 per cent higher than for the past
year ending :o'h June, 1855.
IL Nebra, ka and Kansas twenty-five routes have been
put in OPERATION which the annual transportation is
estimated at IS 1854 miles, az cost Of S43l2 or cents
mills per mile.
In New Mexico the transportation il unchanged bEt
the cost increased sc 050 by special act OF Congress-
In Utah there is Increase Of $500 miles of trans
portaon costing $12 203 additional compared with
The service the S0tn june 1854 This however does
not result any actual addition to the servcs, bat
simply from charging Utah the route from Salt Lake
San Diego. rhich prior to July l. 1854 charged
California. The following table shows the extension of
railroad service:-