Lot
1063 
1849 (Jul. 8) Sante Fe, N.M. Terr. to Washington D.C., blue folded cover docketed from E.G. Beckwith to Maj. General R. Jones, Adjutant Gen. of the U.S. Army, endorsed "Official" at top right, entered mails with St. Louis red "STEAM" straightline, Very Fine. Estimate $300 - 400.
Since there was not yet a mail route on the Sante Fe trail, this was carried by military courier to Fort Leavenworth. There, it was place aboard a Missouri River steamboat that had no mail contract. On arrival at St. Louis, it entered the mails for the east with the "Steam" straightline.
Realized: $600