Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-06

~ VI part OIL poison OF pOlSOnS, anu
anesthetic agents which are not out
wardly or of their own force danger
GUS or injurious to life, health or
property, and not in themselves I'M
mailable (see Sec. 16) when packed
as prescribed in Sections 81, % and
20, and the package bears the name
and address of the manufacturer or
dealer in the article mailed, may be
transmitted in the domestic mails
from the manufacturer thereof or
dealer therein to licensed physicians,
surgeons, pharmacists and dentists.
Sec. 20. Admissible articles which,
from their form or nature, might dam
age other mail matter or equipment,
or injure the person of any postal en-
ployee, may be mailed when packed
| in accordance with the following con-
ditions:
2. When not liquid or Equitable,
they must be placed in bag, box or
removable envelope or wrapping made
of paper, cloth, parchment or similar
material and inclosed in a box or
tube of metal or wood, with slid
ing clasp or screw lid.
3. In case of such articles liable
to break, the inner bag, box envelope
or wrapping must be surrounded by
sawdust, excelsior, cotton or other
similar substance.
Sec. 81. Admissible liquids and oils,
in packages not exceeding eleven
pounds in weight, will be accepted for
mailing when intended for delivery at
the Office of mailing or on a rural
route starting therefrom, when in
| al in oil nj afnfp
securely closed and heavily wrapped,
provided it is not necessary to trans
port them over steam or electric rail-
ways.
Sec. %. Admissible liquids and oils,
pastes, salves, or other articles easily
Equitable, will be accepted for mail
ing regardless of distance when they
conform to the following conditions:
2. When in glass bottles, the guam
tity must not exceed twelve ounces,
liquid measure. The bottle must be
very strong and must be inclosed in
block or tube of metal, wood, papier
mache, or similar material; and there
must be provided between the bottle
and the block or tube a cushion of
cotton, felt or other absorbent The
block or tube, if of wood must be at
least three-sixteenths of an inch thick
in its thinnest part; if of papier-
mache or cimilar material it must be
at least one-eighth of an inch thick
for bottles holding two ounces or less,
and at least five thirty-seco2ds of an
inch thick for bottles holding more
than two ounces. The block or tube
must be rendered water-tight by an
application of paraffine or other suit
aple substance.
3. When in a metal retainer the
, weight of the parcel must not exceed
, eleven pounds. The container must
be Theoretically sealed and inclosed
in a strong box and securely wrap
ped.
Sec. %. Salves, pastes, ETC., not
easily Equitable will be accepted for
mailing when inclosed in water-tight
metal containers and placed in a
strong pasteboard or wooden box and
, securely wrapped.
Sec pa. Manufacturers or dealers
intending to transmit articles in con
{ siderable quantities should submit to
: the postmaster at the mailing Office
for approval a specimen parcel show
ing the manner of packing.
= ments are offered for mailing the
! points must be capped or encased sc
: that they can not cut through theil
!. covering. Blades must be bound Sc
G that they will remain firmly attached
to each other or within their handle:
p | or sockets.
= Sec. 26. Seeds and other admissi
= BILE articles, which are liable from
;, their form or nature to loss or dam
: | age. unless specially protected, ma.
. be put up in sealed envelopes of ma
=, terial sufficiently transparent to SHOW
> the contents clearly without opening
Sec. 81. Ink powders, pepper, snuf
or other similar powders, not explo
sive or any similar pulverized dr..
substance not poisonous, may be sen
s in the mails when inclosed in thu
[. manner prescribed for liquids (se'
If Sec. 22), or when inclosed in case
(, made of metal, wood papier-mache, o
similar material, in such manner a
2. to render impossible the escape o
d any of the contents.
D Sec 2S. Flour of all kinds must b.
n put up in such manner as to proven
II the package breaking or cracking o
e the flour being scattered in the mails
h Sec. 20. Queen bees, live insect
q and dried reptiles may be mailed il
" a cordance with the instructions o
the department of agriculture as pre-
=. mulgated by the postoffice department
g under order number 6242, of May
1912.
:, Sec. 80. Seeds of fruit, nurser.
a stock, and all other plant product
!, for propagation, may be mailed in az