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BY act OF Congress of March 3, 1855, route was
established from New Orleans by the sthus OF Tchuan
tepec 10 San Francisco II advertised for the next
regular lettings OF contracts in the spring OF 1885, but
no bids were received.
La December, 1885, the same route readvsrtised
Only proposal received, ard that for semi
monthly service, at S2sG 600 per 1t not having
been accepted, negotiations opened by the bidders
with the department which resulted in making n
tract June s. 1858, with the Louisiana Tehuantepec
Company on 'he ioo"ins terms, VIZ - m
o,,' 40 o'nsc. ihas ioin new oins, py ni'as.a'i
,nonth AMI hocr i, af and snl,stantaI te,ne,s he
tween Neyv Orleans aud Mint;,l,n In safa and sstap
ti ser steamers between Miuatan and sucbil and IN
post coaches or good covered spring wagons between S
chill and the Pacific the residue of the route To San
Francisco in steamers the nav to be at the rate Of $3.50
600 p,y aau,un wifi the rnderstanding that the mails
NAV hc excbanord with tbe l;n h.tyeen p,nam, AMI
SIN Francaro nj or near AcannIco wthout cbonos of
nav and viii, the further uncrstandin flat tbe mails
INV a ,vc,,anred ,h ~. of,r.aid la - Uantosa or
otnar mont ,yt;n . hot Jstonca of tbat ,,ce ~ tba
ANIMAL connensntion of s25o 00O Service ~
dav Of Noyenber 1873 and To- terminate on the sOth
doy of Santemh,r 1850 Each trn 10 he nerormad in
! fifteen dars
i,e ,ct,,,ll, commence. ~, tho 27tb os oco
ber Ishe ,n,Iar ,r, ,,,;ch \; - ha,;oyod nrnn;.a
ron,,lat, vnccoss
Resides sng mn additional cfanneI of communication
Will cal;tornif ,,hicI ,,,,, tond - hr t cn,neti
t;on ~ q fntnr Ittn ~ e,trot. a th ,vhnla mai,
service h.t,an, th w. tI;s ro,ta t,l, 3, cr
tain soct;on. ~ tho Ininn tha od,ant,ra of civ ,vu
closer connexion via rf,r;o tha Ia, he,tornre bean
enioyed As far moth ar enst as New YORK Il has the
oIy,nt,o. NJ one dav onJ in o,.es of e,nergancv Nv
nsno the eIegranb tbat itv equally with Nan Orleans
nno ,nonn;cate h th pc;6o coat ;v ,ans os1ar
the denartnre Of The Panama line
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fosr OFFICE DhiAHiAIST,
washington May -, 1928.
Sir In reply to your communication of the 10th
instant have the honor to state that contract has
been entered into with any party parties carry the
California mails by the Tehuantepec route Applications
for such having been repeatedly made verbally
and perhaps in writing department advertised for pro
pos which may be in the printed pamphlet of pro-
posals for Louisiana, page 81.
Having advertised for proposals this line. and
ceved one or more bids it, the department. after taking
suitable time for dclibcaton has to the conclusion
to establish mail service thereon from New Orleans
pia Tchuantepec to Acapulco provided satisfactory
~ a, AZ.
10 not proposed to be put further than to Acapulco
because the present line of steamers from Panama
San Francisco always touch at Acapulco and can
take on the New Orleans mail and passengers. 1t
is not however, proposed to make the first contract for
longer period than year from the LIST of October
next that this contract and the from New York
to Aspnwa may expire at the time In the
of this the practcaby of the 1ehuantepec route
may have been fully tested and its capaby to furnish
the shortest cheapest and safest mail route California
fully demonstrated The department, by simultaneous
expiration of the contracts these two routes will be
enabled to determine which to select, whether
keep up BOTH accommodating the mails and the passen
gers from New York and New Orleans, respectively, but
paying each according to the amount of mail service
rendered.
1t is alleged that by starting this line from New Or
leans correspondence from the Atlantic side will be
ceiyed nearly one week later than at present and from
California to the Atlantic States in like proportion That
is say that whilst letters sent from Boston and New York
to California by Panama would roach Acapulco about
days after they had been written, Others sent from New
Orleans Tehuantepec to Acapulco, would reach there
in about days thus practically furnishing nearly
weekly mail instead Of semi monthly communication
as at present.