Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1878 — Coin Transportation. [ARTICLE]

Coin Transportation.

The scheme for the transportation of coin as third-class mail matter, telegraphs a Washington correspondent, is a success theoretically, but practically seems not to amount to much. Two efforts have been made to test the practicability of the plan.. In one instance a million dollars in gold coin, put in four-pound packages, was brought as third-class matter from San Francisco to the East, and on another occasion a s{nailer amount was transported a

shorter distance. No disposition has yet been manifested by private parties to take advantage of the plan, and probably it will never be popularized, as the Postoffice Department cannot afford to put on the necessary cars except when the Treasury Department has large quantities of gold to transport.