Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1902 — The Santa Fe at Charleston. [ARTICLE]

The Santa Fe at Charleston.

The series of special photographs contibuted by the Santa Fe railway to the exhibit of the Postal Department at the Pan-Ainerican Exposition is one of the few which are to be transferred with the exhibit to the Interstate and West Indian Exposition at Charleston, S. C. The series is illustrative of the transcontinental mail service on the Santa Fe between Chicago and San Francisco, and aside from the very interesting railroad features shows many novel portions of Uncle Sam’s postal service between remote mountain districts, Indian trading posts, etc. The pony express and the Indian runner, lithe and long limbed, are still necessary to the government in some sections of the West. The postal department has asked and received permission from the Santa Fe, to place the photographs permanently in the Postal Museum at Washington after the close of the Charleston exposition.