cover "Alta Express Company, Paid", (Haller FA-3, type 1), ornate pictorial printed frank showing steamboat in the design on two separate 3c Red on white, buff entires (U9, U10), former with Alta Express Company, Columbia (Cal.) oval h.s., light staining at R., latter with red Alta Express Company, San Francisco oval h.s., reduced at R. through portion of indicia, a scarcer frank, this company operated for only sixteen months