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VOLUME 39 NO. 5 NO. 39 VOLUME $5 WHOLE NUMBER 233 NUMBER WHOLE Vol 39, No 5 Whole Number 233 The Post Offi ces of PRSRT STD US POSTAGE Utah’s Tintic Mining PAID Permit No. 7419 District Tampa, Fla. La Posta Publications 33470 Chinook Plaza, #216 Scappoose, OR 97056 OUR 39TH YEAR OF PUBLISHING AMERICAN POSTAL HISTORY 1969-2008 November 2008 1 October - November 2008 Volume 39, Number 5 Whole Number 233 IN THIS ISSUE: The Post Offices of Utah’s Tintic Mining District By Dennis H. Pack .......... 9 La Posta: A Journal of The Postmasters General of the United States XXXVIII. James A. Gary, 1897-1898 American Postal History By Daniel Y. Meschter .......... 23 Website: www.la-posta.com The World’s Greatest Gold Camp’s Greatest Publisher: Richard W. Helbock Newspaper Writes the World Greatest Advertising Associate Editors: Executive Henry Berthelot Tom Clarke By Steve Morehead .......... 25 Rod Crossley Michael Dattolico Dennis H. Pack Robert G. 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Stiss Craig Eggleston James Moses Robert Stoldal David M. Ellis E. F. (Al) Mueller Gregory H. Stone Norman Elrod David Mui David L. Straight James W. Faber John G. Mullen W. L. Strauss November 2008 3 Howard Albert Mader (1925-2008) Growers League, the Oregon Seed Council, and the Cascade Foothill Seed Growers Association. In 2004, he received a Diamond Pioneer Award by the Oregon State University College of Agricultural Sciences. He was an avid historian and collector of early western postal history. He spent many weekends at different shows and events along the West Coast. He loved to attend all of the various meetings and shows, and never missed an opportunity to meet someone new and learn about their family history and their inter- ests. He also passed on his passion for downhill skiing to his children and grandchildren. Howard is survived by his wife, Jackie; his two sons, Bob and Scott and their wives; and his four grandchildren, Kevin, Erin, Ellen, and Brian. He was preceded in death by his brother, Donald. Publisher’s Personal Note: Howard was a dear friend who I was priveledged to Howard in a contemplative mood pondering lots in know for over 40 years. In a postal history auction about 1995. fact, I first met Howard at Len Lukens and Bill Beith of Portland, Oregon, have the Portland home of Chuck passed along news of the recent death of Howard Whittlesey in the early 1960s Mader, a good friend and one of La Posta’s founding during one of the monthly subscribers. Bill provided a copy of the following obitu- get-togethers of Willamette ary that appeared in the Salem Statesman: Valley postal historians. He was soft-spoken, kind and AUMSVILLE - Howard Albert Mader died peacefully at his home from complications of always good-humored—exactly the kind of person that congestive heart failure on July 30, 2008. He was helped me decide that I should adopt this hobby as my 83. primary avocation. He was born, raised, and died on the 1848 family Howard built one of the finest collections of Pacific donation land claim farm in the Waldo Hills area Northwest townmarks in the world including extensive outside of Salem. His parents were Albert Julius examples from territorial Oregon and Washington. He Mader and Genevieve Lucille Patton. The was also a very active collector of western express donation land claim included portions of the covers and quite fond of postal history associated with Dickens, Patton, Hunt, and Downing land claims. US fairs and expositions. He attended Silverton High School, Willamette University, University of Oregon, and New York I rarely attended a stampshow in the Pacific North- University where he received a Master’s Degree west without seeing Howard and enjoying a pleasant in Business. He met and married his wife of 56 chat with him. He was always quick to share informa- years, Jacquoline Johnson while at Willamette tion and opinions on subjects of interest to postal histo- where he was a member of the Sigma Chi rians, and I benefited from his advice on many matters fraternity.