The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-12-08
Making the total estimated revenue >. Il, SOC, 90

Making the total estimated revenue. -. II 500 900
to be provided for from the general treasury.
1t Will also be necessary to make the usual special
appropriations as fOllows:-
Mail steamship service between San Fran
cisco, Japan and China. ................ $500,O0
Mail steamship service between the United
Mail steamship service between San Fran
cisco and the Sandwich Islands. ........ $4,000
value q Ola (lncludng 10000 periodicai
stamps, valued at $l4 75O); 44552 800 plain stamped
envelopes, representing aar, S2sS 2is; 2saSs 1850
quests for return to writers, representing 800,
and s,s72o 900 newspaper wrappers, valued at s67s72
were issued. The aggregate value OF these issues
was $l3,s63, 1A-being an increase OF 45-1OO per
centum over the issues OF the previous year. The
sale OF postage stamps and stamped envelopes dur
ing the year, as reported by the Auditor, was
STA 066 130, or S203,0l5 than the issue; thus
sold in the hands OF postnasters June 3d. 1867 The
number OF packages OF postage stamps lost in the
and OF stamped envelopes Z, valued at 1928.
There were In the service OF the department on the
3Oth June 1865 6Sa contractors for the Transports
ton OF the mails OF mail routes in operation there
were s226; aggregate length 216 e2S miles: aggregate
annual transportation, S4224,3 25 miles; aggregate
annual cost $40, 266 058; including the compensation
OF postal railway clerks, route agents. local agents.
mail messengers, mail route messengers and bag
gage masters In charge OF mails VIZ the
was divided as follows, viz:-Ralroad routes
Length 36,ols miles; annual transportation, a. $751;
mile Steamboat routes-Length, 9,647 miles, an
nual transportation, 3,797,56 miles; annual cost,
$500 63l, about ll.l3 cents per mile. Celebrity, GER
tainly and security-Length, 161, 1858 miles, annual
transportation, 5s7 miles, annual cost s543s,-
2s9; about II cents per mle. The length OF routes
was increased over the preceding year 1858 miles,
the annual transportation, 5,24l, $3.50, and cost,
1929, TO; to which add increased cost for railway
postal clerks route local and other agents, $685. 49,
making an aggregate OF 81, 023 500.
In reference TO the overland mail route the report
states that after the failure OF several bidders whose
n mail n con.
tract made with Wells, Fargo Co. to carry the
mails between the termini OF the Union Pacific aud
Central Pacific Railroads for one year, or until the
two roads meet, at the rate OF $1750.0O0 per an
mum, subject to deduction pro rata for every section
Of ffty miles OF railroad completed and reported to
the department ready to carry the mails, 1t being
tnatcd that the gap between the railroads, covered
by the stage service, win be lessened at the rate OF
fifty miles every fifteen days hundred miles
month"; ana that it VIII be closed up entirely by the
st of August 1862 and that upon this basis the pay
to Wells, Fargo Co., under their accepted propo-
sal, viii amount in all TO about $6so,0O0
Messrs. Wells, Fargo a Co.. also obtained
Kansas, TO Denver, Colorado, at $4,000 per annum
aud also on the route from Cheyenne Dacotah, TO
Denver at &e,9l0 per annum, on the same terms as
aDove stated. Under these arrangements the over
land mail service on the three routes Is In regu-
lar operation. The territorial mails are now carried
from Fort Abercrombe, Dacotah, to Helena, Mon
tana, at $19ioo0 per annum. The service, on the
route from Sheridan Ton the eastern division OF the
Union Pacific Railroad to santa Fc has been IN.
schedule time reduced to four days In summer. The
service Is well performed, though stall occasionally
interrupted by hostile Indians. The important
route from Salt Lake City to the Dalles Oregon has
been relet from LIST october last for sixnes-a-week
service at the rate Of s1490 900 per snnuma saving
compared with the last contract OF $l6i, 900 per
annum.
The 30th OF June, 1865 being the period for the
piration OF the term Of contracts for transporting
mails in the states OF New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland and Ohio, the department ia an
tcipation OF the close Of the term, entered upon
systematic revision and readustment OF the rates OF
pay on railroad routes 10 ,nnse states: Wherever
former rate circular was addressed TO the proprI-
etors OF the route, submitting the offer OF the de-
partment and explaining its purpose. In many in
stances the terms offered have, after considerable
correspondence, been accepted, and contracts made
accordingly. In others though formal contracts are
for the service for the rst quarter OF the new term
not executed the department has proceeded 10 settle
Ut the rates offered. Many routes In other states
than those above named have been brought up for
review, upon application made by the propre-
tors OF the railroads Interested. and IN every case
where the returns showed readjGstment 10 he
proper Vt has been ordered. Thus the rates
have been changed upon seseny-onc routes In all,
~ appears In the annexed stable showing the read
iustment OF the rates OF pay per mile ON certain
railroad routes.n The total amount or the annual
pay upon these routes under the REIMBURSEMENT it
viii he seen. Is $92G,0i ana tue total amount OF the
former annual spay $175 f22-an excess of the pres
ent over the former amount OF Sl5032o. In con.
necton with this subject II may be proper TO state
that AT different tunes within the months OF Jauu.
AIRY, February and March last, while Congress was
In session there were submitted TO the department.
in behalf OF "commitiee on mail service APP
pointed at national railroad convention previously
held several schedules OF proposed changes In the
rates or pay for the transportation OF mails rail-
road routes and finally the draught III act the
subject TO be submitted, II approved by the Post
master General to the Post Onice committees OF the
House and Senate The proposed act provided that
In all contracts hereafter to DC made with railroad
companies for the transportation OF the mail the
rates OF compensation should be- al the option OF the
Postmaster General, in proportion either TO the
weight Of matter to be transported or 10 the number
OF cubic feet OF car space which the department
aud agents. The schedule OF rates prescribed In the
MT anNeI iipou oycry of ACTUAL trausporta.