The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-01-07

DEER Lodge CITY, FRIDAY, JAN. 2.
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TUG "E.aEETTE" IND THE
&c Mills.
'CAn aAy good come out Of Nazareth ?"
In the Gdsette OF The 9Th, is an article en-
'itlcd "Ratlcr Strong" but which VIC think
IL rather reak The petition now circulated
asking better mail service, docs not suit
the writer. He charges that half dozen
men in Deer Lodge presume to designate the
mail System of the entire Territory, without
saying by your leave to Helena or other
places. Let us state this casc: There is now
'ri.wcckly and half daily mail service over
the greater portion of Montana. Under the
advertisement Of the Postmaster General,
tho mail lettings for tho next four years
from March lst. 1870, proriie for only ueek:.
" serrice throughput the entire Territory,
Helena included. The Geze1c kas known
this, and VIC have never known but one
mild protest to appear in its columns against
It. The Postmaster General proposes u re.
ducc tho service 10 that amount. We have
MI. Cavanaugh's own statement to tina! ct.
feet We waited two months for our over.
grown, lympl,atic metropolitan city, Helena,
to initiate movement to countcract this
IMrposed wrong. Helena folded its hands
in supinc indifference An examination of
tho system proposed, showed it was an out.
rage on the people, and swinttle On the
Government. Large communities are not
provided with any postal facilities while
from Helena to B!ackfoot, Virginia 10 Shcri-
dan, Deer Lodge TO Warm Springs, four
services are to be paid for and may be car
ried in tho same sack. From Helena to
Frcnchtown, Missoula, three services arc to
be paid for and carried III tho same sack.
while on half the routes there arc two ser
vices, at great e1pense 10 the government and
ssishous a particle mOrs xsn:tt to the people
dan one serriee could be. 1t makes on aggre-
gate distance of routes of six thousand seven
hundred and sixteen miles. As in tho case
If Highland, the States mail passes within
twenty miles Of there, and sitter making d
circuit of nearly three hundred miles sia
Helena and Deer lodge, is brought back to
them week sitter it has passed along the
base Of the range on which tho town h built,
after having been twice since transported
across the Main Range Of the Rocky Noun.
tains. Certainly such system - this is
susceptible Of improvement Helena slum-
bered; Deer Lodge was awake to meet the
sxigcucy. Meetings were convened and com
,nittecs appointed to draft maps and petit
tion. Duplicate outline maps were made
from the official maps of the Territory; on
one was traced the routes - advertised; on
The other the system submitted by the com.
mittcs. This system reaches every city and
camp in Montana, advertised by tho Depart.
ment, and sessral more. 1t gives every post.
office the most direct mail it can have In
no case are tho routes duplicated, and the
aggregate distance il but 3, S62 miles say
ing Of 1854 miles Of mail carriage in Mon.
taus every week, or three tines, az three
and half timcs . week, ~ the service may
he ordered.
1t Is not asked that Deer Lodge be made .
distributing Office for tho Territory.
II - not asked that the Helena mails come
ShsouCh here, though it Is but few miles
further, over . much superior road, and
our mails arc, and have been for years, car.
sicd cia Helena, nearly 1OC miles around.
Your States route 10 not interfcred with
you have every mail route the Department
has advertised It would give you, and more,
and VIC have pctioncd that you have tri:
weekly service where only weekly is pro.
posed to be given you.
Il was essential, 70 show the gross fraud
m the Government by duplicate and quad
suple routes. TO incorporate oil Montana In
'hc maps. You have written dispagingly
Vt the system without an examination of 1t,
or in profound ignorance Of the difference
between useless extravaganza and cconom-
ical efficiency. $685.. |
We would like to know Why half . dozen
men Of Deer Lodge" havc not just Is much
right 10 map system ~ six men Of Helena!
Docs the mere fact Of living In back alley
Of that town, invest q man with super emf.
nsnt knowledge, integrity and prcrogativcs!
And though this committee consisted of but
ok men, every msn who signs il becomes
virtuallya member Of TINT committee by
endorsing IT. statements, and you can safely
to-day number II 1t s,oco, smong whom tic
@'sstts has its best patronage. We petition.
Cd on behalf Of ourselves, 1.-The people of tho
northern and western portions Of Montana"
But our Helena neighboo by tracing these
routes on the usp, willdnd ID just rs much
for their interest ss ours to join with 10 in
asking this system be adopted entire except
those who may be lcagued In some schcme
70 swindle the Government and blk the
people ... 49, Il -. - 4ai
We ask Mr.. MaGinnis to consider dcliber.
ately. whether the system Il good " bad
one. and II bal 70 show ~ wherein. We
respectfully ok him 70 reflect, and, if he |
ean. 70 show cause Why Helenisa knows
any moro about this n,attse, than the aix