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Western Express RESEARCH JOURNAL OF EARLY WESTERN MAILS Quarterly Publication of the Vol. 52 No.4 WESTERN COVER SOCIETY December 2002 Whole no. 206 Unit No. 14- American Philatelic Society Express Overland Territorial Postal Rates Ocean Mail Post Offices Statehood Postal History TABLE OF CONTENTS From Your Editor 1 Secretary's Report 2 letter from Alviso from Anita Sprankle The California Gold Rush A Sesquicentennial Tribute from Alan H. Patera 4 Mr. Sutro Buys a Townsite by Michael Mahler 8 And Still They Come : Two More California Patriotics by Robert J . Chandler 25 Follow the River: The Oregon to California Trail- California Segment, pt, 2 (cont.) by Dale Wilson 31 Mail from Hawaii, Part 10: Hoopuloa Post Office by Randall E. Burt 48 The Cover: This patriotic cover is discussed in Robert Chandler's article beginning on p.25. Awards Silver Vermeil STaMpsHOW 89 Vermeil SESCAL91 Vermeil PHILITEX 1992 Vermeil COLOPEX94 Vermeil STAMPSHOW 95 Vermeil COLOPEX 2001 MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION If you collect Western Express covers, Territorials, Town cancellation, or anything pertaining to the mails of the Old West, you are invited to join the Western Cover Society and enjoy meeting other collectors. Western Express (ISSN 0510-2332 is published quarterly (March-June-September-December) by the Western Cover Soci­ ety, which is a not-for-profit 501 (C-3) tax exempt organization. Western Cover Society seeks to fulfill it's charitable and educational mission through the publication of~ks and journals. All contributions above the basic subscription rate are tax deductible and will go to support publication of material The annual membership in the society includes a subscription to Western Express. All who share an interest are invited to join. Annual membership is $25.00 per year. Single copies of back issues are priced at $8.00 and can be ordered from Michael Rainey, P.O. Box 1, Washington CA 95986-0001. Application for membership should be directed with payment to John Drew, 15370 Skyview Terrace, San Jose CA 95132-3042. Claims for missing issues made within six months will be serviced free of charge. All photographs and published material are assumed to be the copyright of the Western Cover Society unless the copyright is retained by the author. Contact the Secretary for copyright permission or the author where noted. Photocopy permission for non-resale classroom usage is freely given. Western Cover Society does not accept responsibility for views expressed in articles or advertisements that appear in the pages of Western Express. It provides opport~ities for the publication of material that may represent ideas, judgments and options. The publication of articles or advertisements should not be construed to promote collecting or establish pricing of material that is in private hands. Send manuscriptS to the editor for publication consideration. All manuscripts are subject to peer review. Patron Membership $50.00 a year Sustaining Membership $30.00 a year Active membership $25.00 a year Send application with appropriate check to: Western Cover Society John Drew, Secretary 15370 Skyview Terrace San Jose CA 95132-3042 Please state your collecting interests. Your application will be acted upon at the next meeting of the Board of Directors. Advertising rates, per issue: Full page $55.00; half page $27.50; quarter page $17.50 Copyright 2002 by the Western Cover Society ISSN 0510-2332 Western Express December 2002 From Your Editor Western Cover Society Officers Alan H. Patera P.O. Box 2093 President Michael J. Rainey Lake Grove OR 97035 Vice President Robert J. Chandler e-mail: [email protected] Secretary John R. Drew Treasurer Oscar M. Thomas This Issue and Next Directors at Large: Dale E. Forster This issue of Western Express continues Howard Mader Randall Burt's series on Hawaii with a segment on Frank Q. Newton, Jr. Hoopuloa, plus including some tables that should Irwin Vogel have been included in June's segment on Honokaa. William C. Tatham Hoopuloa is of special interest because of the fate Edward A. Weinberg of the office. Unless there is another such office on the Island of Hawaii, this may be the only U.S. post office to have been discontinued because the membership. Next issue we will have an article site was covered by a lava flow! on Vancouver Island's Customs Seal by Dale This issue also concludes Part 2 of Dale Forster, and there is an article in the wings on Wilson's history of mail movement along the Or­ Wyoming by Michael Mahler. But if you want to egon to California route. This brings us up to the see articles on other Western states -- you may just time of the inauguration of a daily mail between have to write one yourself. Sacramento and Portland (which seems appropri­ ate, since Dale lives in the Sacramento area and I President's Message live just outside Portland). Up to 1860 most mail went by a route now used very little. The route The much-anticipated Nevada Express book is over Scott Mountain is now a paved road, but por­ now finished. Jim Garnett has done a fine job re­ tions are steep and winding -- very slow going com­ searching the expresses of Nevada and creating this pared to the route of Interstate 5 up the Sacramento new reference material. Dick Salz, Jim Blaine, River Canyon to the east. In 1860 there were no John Drew and Leonard Hartmann deserve much post offices along the upper Sacramento River. appreciation for the substantial time they spent Future articles will discuss the evolvement of the proof-reading the manuscript. river route into the preferred route, the building of Your President would like to take this oppor­ the railroad through the canyon, and finally, the tunity to thank some of the people who have con­ establishment of post offices along the way. tributed to the success of our organization. Oscar Also in this issue we have a Nevada article by Thomas and John Drew deserve much praise for Michael Mahler which provides a concise and un­ doing essentially all the administrative work nec­ derstandable history of the Sutro Tunnel and the essary to keep this stagecoach rolling. Alan Patera political/financial factors that preceded its con­ has consistently delivered to our membership a struction. Robert Chandler also makes a worthy well-edited, first-rate research journal, the West­ contribution with a discussion of two new types of ern Express, for which we can all be grateful. And California Patriotic Covers. finally, I want to acknowledge all of you who have Western Express tries to include a variety of shared your knowledge with other cover collec­ articles to match the interests of Society members. tors and postal historians by submitting your ar­ Admittedly it is heavy on material featuring Cali­ ticles to this publication -- thank you! fornia and Nevada, and in recent years, Hawaii; yet this too reflects the collecting interests of our Michael Rainey Page 1 Western Express December 2002 Secretary's Report Address Changes (only the new address is shown) New Members Charles W. Deaton #1274 Peter Martin P.O.Box 2836 P.O. Box 791 Orleans MA 01653 State College PA 16804-0791 Collects: National Park postal history Brian G. Kestner 7638 W. Bearcreek Ct Boise ID 83704-0706 Dan Lewis Illustrations wanted 1976 E. Crary St. Your editor is looking for postal or other paper Pasadena CA 91104-1701 material that can be used as illustrations for John Drew, Secretary Hornsilver (now Gold Point), Oriental, and Gold Mountain, all of which are located in southern Esmeralda County, Nevada. ARIZONA - NEW MEXICO · · ·· 'POSTAL H:'ISTORY SOCIETY CLASSIC Seeks New.Members, Who Seek New STAMPS AND COVERS Material, New Information and New Friends DUES $1o : ~nually . Buy or Sell Receive "The Roadrunner" .periodic newsletter Trade Dupllcates'at Winter Meetings ' . Stanley M. Piller Contact: Thomas K & Associates Todsen, 2000 Rose Lane, Las Cruces, NM 88005 3351 Grand Ave. or Oakland CA 94610 Peter Rathwell, 4523 E. (510) 465-8290 Mountain View Dr., Phoenix. AZ 85028. 1!!!!!!-!!!!J!I!IIIIIII!II!!!!II!!!I!!______ __. i. l:=;;;;;;o==-=:=-==-==-==-==-==-==-===.1 Page2 Western Express December 2002 LETTER FROM ALVISO from Anita Sprankle Alviso Mills, May 16, 1860 Dear Sister, Albanus rec'd a letter from you yesterday, which also contained one for me dat'd April 8th/60. You com­ plain bitterly about not receiving any letters from me. I can not help it any more than you can because I din't receive any from you. In two weeks more I have been away from your place one year, & in that time I have rec'd four letters from you directed to me, & two notes in Albanus's letters -- this is all. I know that I have written more letters than this to you alone, and an equal number to my Mother. If other folks get more letters than you do, it is just because other folks write more letters than you do. This is all. I make it a point to answer every letter that I receive and have done so & more too be several letters. I have rec'd more letters from Aunt Sabrina & Charles Rome than from anyone else. It is now May 16th and the last letter I received from anybody over your way (except one from Aunt Sabrina and your note. both of which I got yesterday May 15) was dated Feb 13th from Aunt Sabrina: Your last letter was date Feb. 5th/60 by (Overland Main Route) which makes it about three months and one half since I have had a letter from you previous to the one of yesterday. I have written two letters to you folks since then, and also sent a box of daguerotypes & flower seeds & some money per express directive to Caroline S.
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