What is this?

[Unsprung]

RE:
http://books.google.com/books?id=vWlBAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA545&dq=%22walter+h+blood%22&lr=&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q=%22walter%20h%20blood%22&f=false

I stumbled across this while Googling on my gg grandfather's name (Walter H.
Blood). He appears to have won a bid in 1862 to do something on the
railroad, agreeing to take it once a week from Kenosha to Brighton, WI for
which (the government?) would pay him $148 per year. He was one of many
agreeing to do something similar. The entry is out of some kind of
proceedings from the US House of Representatives in 1862. Can anyone shed
light on whatever this is.

[866013149e]

"Unsprung" <peterb...@joimail.com> writes:

>RE:
>http://books.google.com/books?id=vWlBAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA545&dq=%22walter+h+blood%22&lr=&as_brr=1#v=onepage&q=%22walter%20h%20blood%22&f=false

I believe he was a mail carrier.

umar

[Unsprung]

Like an intermediate person who would get the mail to the point of
distribution? That would explain the Federal nature of the job. Plus he once
co-own a private mail delivery service in Philly before the Post Office was
created. Does once a week mail delivery sound right for 1862?

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[866013149e]

"Unsprung" <peterb...@joimail.com> writes:

>Like an intermediate person who would get the mail to the point of
>distribution? That would explain the Federal nature of the job. Plus he once
>co-own a private mail delivery service in Philly before the Post Office was
>created. Does once a week mail delivery sound right for 1862?

I wouldn't be surprised, given the scarcity of good roads and the lack
of motorized transport other than the railroad.

Plus, the Civil War was going on, and spare horses might have been hard
to find.

umar