Lot 331
1859 P.M.G. Horatio King - Cost of East & West Coast Mail Service Statement, signed two-page letter by the Postmaster General Horatio King to Senator R.M.T. Hunter, with letter in part…I have the honor to furnish herein agreeably to your verbal request a statement of the present cost of the mail service between the Atlantic States and California and the territories of Oregon, Washington, Utah and New Mexico, on the principal through routes, both by sea and overland, including routes from New Orleans to San Antonio, St. Louis to St. Joseph's & c., then lists the various routes (Independence to Santa Fe, San Antonio, Texas to El Paso & from Fort Yuma to San Diego, and 20 other routes), totaling the cost of overland and sea service at $2,455,788, also notes cost of…Coastwise steamship service between San Francisco and San Diego, supplying the intermediate ports in Southern California, is embraced in the contract with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, between Panama, San Francisco, and Astoria, Oregon Territory.; couple minor reinforced splits along folds, Very Fine, a wonderful statement of U.S. postal expenditures of the mail service between the Atlantic States and West coast.Estimate $500 - 750.
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Realized: $850