New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-29

made to run the mails for the postage for three or
four years il would prove most profitable speculation
This opinion IL predcsted upon the constantly increas
ing relations with the business If the East and the
great ratio Of increase of the population "a well a. ~
on the results which would immediately follow from the
establishment Of a certain and regular for mos; IN
certain and irregular delivery of the mails.
The attainment O. this object would demand however
an entire change Of route from the place shere the mails
leave the regular routes II the lower country n
e course only # the season when navigation toe
lakes il closed The present winter route, established
when the settlements OF this region were confined 70
the shores OF the lakes is "a am Informed hy tue post
aster of this place, this: From the close Of navigation
the ais for this region pass via Mivsuse 10 place
called Lake ShawanO (proucunced ShsnOw) on Wolf
River, whittier there lea regular -emweeky mail route
Here the Lake Superior msis are inside up sud begin
their separate journey nrhesrdly, hrst some seEenty
miles by stages U Green Bay village st this place the
mail matter waits and accumuares until the bay is su
ce1tly frozen to bear horse, and there - no road
around The delay last autumn Of several seeks
10 letters reaching Keweenew Point from some time ia
November the lst Of January, when Pierce- cleo
ton first became known
As soon as the ice will bear the mails make their next
stage along Green Bay 10 the point where the Esclaa
River cutters Bay de Noqueta distauce folio wig the
vndngs q the shore s4d b. lao miles Thence
tie route Crosses I, Iale Superior at Mariu"tte-y
miles by air line - tra'eed-the mails being
transported backs by dog trains loence, by
fhe samt mode o cODvs vance 10 Anse-a distance or
ing the mesrderncs Necessary 10 avoid lakes, sxanps
an air line 70 the OntOnaeon River the Minnesota
&c in round numbers If 100 miles From L'Anse
Nine is about IS miles aud this route5O miles in fact
is followed by the mail matter for thar district while
thai for KeweeDaw Point goes along the shore u Copper
HaTb0r some 60 miles Thus letter in reaching either
the OLton8gOn or KeweeHaw District from Lake Sna
now must journey 300 miles, over country sui al
most wilderness aud broken and interrupted in all d.
rections by lakes and Nnen the Ice -
torn ing III auUmo for weeks there is m communication
WIEN il j. breaking up IN the spring the same Is true
WLtp the trails prove particularly difficult men and
dogs GET tired aud short OF provisions, the heavier mail
matter is LETT 10 take of itself ami ie| or no bun
dies Of newspapers succeed in making the Journey
Sometime bags suspended TO trees or lett IN the
last post-ffce ard AIT for convenient season.
which lever cones.
The char pc Of route proposed and one 10 which
have heard opposition expressed, Is as follows; Tax
ing the mails from the same pOlnt-Lahe SnanOS-the
carriers usesd of crossing 20 Green Bay, VIII i0
lev the ridge dividing the Well and Wisconsin rivers
about 125 miles directly northwest the direction to On
tonseon) 10 Lac Veux Desert. Negotiations are al
ready progress 20 open cattle road between ma Two
places aud strong hopes are entertained ny those VINO
know hat country that the establishment OF mail route
would lead something better than cattle route,
and finally 10 a railroad. From Lac Veux Desert, a
cattle road j. already made to On0nsgon % miles, and
the third drove Of cattle for the mines is nj this moment
trayersng by this route the mails tor the copper re-
ei0n ave but a distance OF 15 miles to traverse after
hdNlig the tet'ltHhehts pei"" duu tuc NVpFVi A"''
mail is az near It's destination when at the Douglass
HoupbtoD Mine (D the Eastern Ont0naso DISTRICT
when at LAnse-v ith al the benefit Of having route
for the ret of the Distance along the line OF mines
thus growing constantly lighter.
A glance at Foster n Whitbey's map Of the Lake
Superior country-or any good Wap-wlll show the IN
finite superiority OF the proposed route to the one no~
followed Would business at the East but second
the efforts making here, there seems % be no doubt that
so desirable change might be effected. | an assured
that could the proposed change be made immediately,
the people Of this region would have the trail at once
marked out cleared and Staon-houses bulls at proper
intervals, the carriers from the necessity of
camping out in all weathers, and running the risk 30
often Of losing the mails TO their lives.
As an earnest Of what might be done in case the
people hereabout could be OF receiving Eastern
papers with any sort of regularity, send herewith
list Of subscriptions for your Semi-Ueey tribune,
all paid in sdvance-perhaps the most interesting Por-
ton of this letter to you. Awr