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The Express objects to the Butteefielb Overland Jtfail contract, as being too enor-;mously expensive to the Department# is Meit is but slightly advantageous to the public. The Express says of it*What is called the BntfcerMd Mai), costs us $600, OGG. It goes fully six hundred milesout of the direct course to San Francisco from St, Louis, It passes, for two hundred\miles, through a sandy desert, where there is [ neither wood nor water, inhere no white, red | or black man could live, and where no set-| tlement will ever exist. It takes a circuitous j route to California, in order to make a direct trip to the Treasury* It gets money out of the public coffers In order to put it into the pockets of contractors. If the object of such a mail was to serve the public, it would be carried for three hundred thousand, In place of six hundred thousand dollars. There would be then less for the people to pay, and I 1 less to decide among the agents who used I [their exeitions to secure the contract to the Butterfields and their rcu ircerotw partners infthe speculation.
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Salt Lake City Valley Tan
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Wed, Jul 20, 1859
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