Name of vessel.

Date of sailing.

APPENDIX B.

TABLES EXHIBITING THE BUSINESS OF THE LINES INDICATED IN TRANSPORTATION OF UNITED STATES MAILS DURING THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1885.

Pacific Mail, from San Francisco to Hawaiian Islands, New Caledonia, and Australian colonies, for fiscal year 1884-'85.

Prints.

Total amount paid steamer
per trip at 5 francs per

kilo for letters, 50 cent-
Total amount earned by steamer
imes per kilo for prints.
per trip.

Pacific mail from San Francisco to Hawaiian Islands, New Caledonia, and Australian colonies for fiscal year 1884-'85.

The above freight and parcel-express rates are taken from freight tariff No. 5 and parcel tariff No. 8, issued by Williams, Dimond & Co., general agents of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, office at wharf, corner First and Brannon streets, San Francisco, Cal.

Pacific Mail Line, San Francisco to Panama, fiscal year ended June 30, 1885.

Pacific Mail Line, New York to Colon, fiscal year ended June 30, 1885.

Total

Number of trips..

383, 085, 064 46, 878, 0203, 055 52 4, 523 70 7, 579 22 110, 169 42 41 7,711 82 19, 662 49

Average number of pounds of mail carried per trip

Average amount actually paid per trip

Average amount per trip if paid at freight rates..

Average amount per trip if paid at parcel-dispatch rates

38 2,899 $199 45

Average amount per trip if paid at sea and inland postage
Maximum amount paid on any one trip

Minimum amount paid on any one trip

1 11

202 95

517 43

253 39

43 06

Pacific Mail Steamship Company, San Francisco to Yokohama and Hong-Kong and to United States consul, Shanghai, fiscal year ended June 30, 1885.

Total

182, 143, 661 14, 901, 398 2, 134 50 1, 372 143, 506 64 37, 584 226 34 3, 758 40 10, 125 80

New York, Havana and Mexican Mail Steamship Company, New York to Cuba, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, and Mexico, fiscal year ended June 30, 1885.

2,369, 923 20, 161, 876 2, 278 30 1,855, 83 4, 134 13:49, 682 129 17 3, 229 23 11, 932 11

Red D Line-New York to Venezuela and Curaçao, fiscal year ended June 30, 1885.

63 11

Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company-steamer San Pablo, from San Francisco to Japan and China.

New York and Cuba Mail Line, Cuba, &c., fiscal year ended June 30, 1885.

5

1,488 $137 11 $8.93 $148.80

$394 77

Total

711, 719, 310 11, 580, 882 1, 664 431, 034 50 2, 698 93 29, 306 76 19 1, 904 89 8,047 20