Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1905-12-17 | Page 1 | Ocean Mail Service

OCEAN MAlL AIL SER Cr Contract System Proved to Be Bc the Most Expensive Washington Dec to tM the annual report or of the tho of at malls mails it cost the durIng th fiscal year June 30 1005 more for ocean mall mail service under the contract system than it would hind had the i mails maliH been transported and paid for tor b by weight The most disproportionate cases the report shows are tho those embracing the tue routes between San Francisco and Tahiti and New York and It Iii I Ith th the former Instance the tue cost was wat for carrying malls which If paid for tor by w weight would have hae been but 1153 while It cost to transport the malls mails to Havana 11 8 but bitt which It if paid for by weight have resulted In an outlay of but butt S t In but one Instance Js is it shown that the tho contract system worked to to the government and that thaL w was on the tha New ew York Southampton route which h cost it t Is I stated had bad It been paId for under the fht system 11 ot of weights It would have d I t an expenditure of 48 I