Show LA longest amest mail route uncle sam pays 2323 to crry each batch of letters from new now york to a certain elation station within his tits ter territory ditori and tho the coat cost ie Is the same sami if it there Is but one letter the postage on tho the letter would of course be but two cents the regular rate for this Is just a regular mall mail route tho the dlo tanco covered in the return jom tn to and from now la Is antles for the outer end Is port barrow harrow alaska ala tho the journey one way lakeit almost five months and five different methods of transportation are used tho the and modes of transportation are rei dy by reindeer miles by dogs le 1 20 miles by horses miles by miles and by rail milos from poll barrow to kotzebue Is lit miles and this part of the journey la Is colored by means of reindeer from kotzebue Koti to nomo nome Is miles a stretch on which both reindeer and dogs are utilized from nome to is miles where dogs fur nish the motive power from inala kak to tanana is miles and tail tan ana ann to eagle Is 60 miles both ol 01 these stretches being covered by means of dogs this makes a total of 2210 miles traveled in alaska alone the next stage la Is miles from eagle to skagway Sk agway via dawson a total of miles of which Is in canada and 22 in alaska miles of the distance being by horses and dogs and by railroad the round trip rate for carrying carryl nR the mall mail from point barrow to kotzebue Kotze buo according to the contract contrat Is 1750 making the single trip one halt balt the round trip rate and the other of the trip are similarly computed thus the cost whether there la Is one letter or a big bulk of mall mail from kotzebue to nome Is nome to to tao tau ana and tanana to eagle |