History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

POST-OFFICE. 769
The receipts of the post-office at Salt Lake City
for the year ending March 31, 1884, amounted to
$39,294, and the expenses to $12,871, leaving a surplus
in this department of $26,423. The Hrst postoffice
was established in March 1849, letters being
usually delivered before that date at the conclusion
of divine service on the sabbath at the several places
of worship. Of mail contracts and services up to the
close of 1856 mention has already been made. 43 At
that date, it will be remembered, there was a monthly
service, when not interrupted by severity of weather
or unforeseen casualties, connecting eastward with
Independence and westward with Sacramento. After
the reopening of postal communication, interrupted
by the Utah war, there was little regard to regularity
or promptness in the delivery of the mails, letters
and papers being often lost, mail-bags wetted, thrown
carelessly to the ground, and sometimes purposely de-
Doc, 47th Cong. 2d Sess., xix., no. 72, 146. For town sites patented in
187S-SO, see H.^Ex. Doc, 47th Cong. 1st Sess., ix., pt 5, 187. For surveys
and statistics between 1SG9 and 1880, see U. S. Land-Off. Kept, 18G9, 168-74,
225-42, 256-62, 326-31, 400-5; Sec. Interior Repts, 42d Cong. 2d Sess., pt i.,
42, 219-23; 42d Cong. 3d Sess., pt i., 12-13, 18; 43d Cong. 1st Sess., i. 149-
57, 257-93; 43d Cong. 2d Sess., i. 155-68, 208-84, 300-3; 44th Cong. 1st
Sess., 37-40, 248-60, 377-424; 44th Cong. 2d Sess., 32-3, 30-39, 130-52, 166-
85, 277-93; //. Ex. Doc, 45th Cong. 2d Sess., viii. 69, 155-217, 299-311;
45th Cong. 3d Sess., p. x., x.-xvi., 18-19, 55, 86-7, 95-6, 161, 213, 215, 319-33;
Id., 46th Cong. 2d Sess., v. 220G-8, 2213-15; Sen. Doc, 46th Cong. 3d Sess.,
no. 12, 50, 67. For portions of surveyor-general's reports touching Utah, see
77. Ex. Doc, 46th Cong. 2d Sess., ix. 871-897; 47th Cong. 1st Sess., ix., pt
5, 141, 8S2-915; 47th Cong. 2d Sess., x. 75-7. For legislation of congress
upon which title to land in Utah depends, see Id., 47th Cong. 2d Sess., xvin ,
no. 45, 971-8. For laws relating to preemption, homestead, timber-land,
desert, and other lands, see U. S. Stat., 44th Cong. 2d Sess., 377; 45 Cong. 2d
Sess. , 88-9; Stayner, Farmers' and Miners' Manual. For further discussions,
measures, proceedings, and appropriations of congress for Utah, see Cong.
Globe, 1868-9, 6S7, 754, 781; 1869-70, passim; 1872-3, eclv., iu.-ix., cexe,
221, 353; 1873-4, 21,51, 84-5, 187, 204, 506, 1838; U. S. Acts, 40th Cong. 3d
Sess., 224; 42d Cong. 2d Sess., 40, 223, 303, 530; House Jour., loth Cong. 3d
Sess.', 617; 41st Cong. 1st Sess., 317; 41st Cong. 3d Sess., 624-5, 650-1; 42d
Cong. 2d Sess., 657, 699, 701, 713, 725, 1219, 1290, 1302-5, 1345-7; 43d Cong
1st Sess., 1545, 1559, 15S2-3; 43d Cong. 2d Sess., 793, 800, 810,812; 44th
Cong. 1st Sess., 1736, 1775; 45th Cong. 1st Sess., 40S, 431; 4oth Cong. 2d
Sess., 1654-5, 1708; Sen. «/bwr.,41st Cong. 2d Sess., 1490. 1527 -8; 41st Long
3d Sess., 603, 673; 42d Cong. 1st Sess., 239, 249, 266, 277, 279; 42 Cong. 2d
Sess 1">34 1380-2, 1419-20; 42d Cong. 3d Sess., 856, 8,0, 886; 43d Cong.
1st Sess., 1121, 1141-2; 45th Cong. 1st Sess., 108; 45th Cong. 2d Sess., 9,7-
8, 990, 1021; II. Comm. Kept, 45th Cong. 2d Sess., iv., no. 708, v., no. J49.
46 See pp. 500-502, this vol.
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