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1868 June 5 Letter to L. H. Hershfield

Title

1868 June 5 Letter to L. H. Hershfield

Description

C. C. Rich desires to continue carrying the mail. He lives on the route and is reliable.

Type

Correspondence

Sender

Brigham Young

Recipient

Correspondence

Date

1868 June 5

Location

Great Salt Lake City
Helena, Montana

Number of Pages

2

Subject

Postal Service
Business Matters

Salt Lake City,
June 4th 1868.

Salt Lake City, U. T.
June 5, 1868.

L. H. Hershfield, Esq.,
Helena, Montana Territory.

Sir:

In reply to your favor of the 30th ult. I have to inform you that the P. O. Department I have understood paid Gen. C. C. Rich $3,000 a year for carrying the mail on the route you mention, and he is now carrying it on that route under special contract, as I am informed. I presume it would please Gen. Rich to continue carrying that mail at those figures, as he resides at Paris, Rich County, on the line of the route, and is very efficient, reliable and responsible.

Should it please you to have Gen. Rich continue carrying the mail at the aforenamed figures, upon intimation thereof I will at once advise him, as also of any other proposition you may wish to make on the subject.

Respectfully,

Brigham Young