Arizona citizen., 1873-03-01
The Direct Eastern Mail.


 Having very satisfactory wester1 mail by which the mass of our eastern matter comes to hand in from eighteen
 to twenty days. we have little care for the mails directly eastward; al- though the interruption of the latter causes much inconvenience to many of our citizens. Yesterday a very large through mail via Santa Fe reached Tucson. It contained letters and papers covering the time from January to February 5, and perhaps later. When this mail is carried as it should be, it carries to and brings matter from the eastern States in from four to six days less time than the one by San Diego and San Francisco Our exchanges from Colorado and parts of New Mexico, for two months past, got here yesterday. The av- craze expressions of them are very much against the Southern Overland Mail Company between Santa Fe and the railroad. The company stopped carrying the mail because of the horse disease; yet our exchanges show that nearly if not all other stage con- panies kept up their regular trips with out delay. When the mail was first stopped between Santa Fe and Pueblo, private expresses were at once started to carry mails (letters at 25 cents each) and passengers, and according. to our exchanges did so and had no special difficulty in procuring an- imals healthy enough for the pur- pose. It is possible, but not even hlnted at by our Colorado and New Mexican exchanges, that if these pri- vate parties had been regular mail contractors, they could not have found enough robust horses or mules to have carried the mail-they might have seen epizootic in all, and might even have said sc in a most solemn manner. Possibly if we had a mail contract in section of country where the epizootic was supposed to prevail, we should not be able to see, much less hire or buy, mule or horse free of it. The very name of the thing is and to mix it with mail contract, must, in certain sections of the country, perfectly bewilder men with mail contracts-to such an eX- tent that nothing will restore them to their former condition but peremp- tory prescription by the Postmaster General-at least this remedy is pro- nounced by the Colorado and New Mexican papers to have been recently applied with marvellous success and, the large through mail yesterday, makes us suspect the effectiveness of the cure.
 However, it is with pleasure we state that J. E. Bennett & Co.,, who carry the mali between Santa Fe and Tucson nave not been seriously at tackled by the epizootic influence. AL most every mail-three times a-week brought us evidence that they were doing their duty by considerab able extra exertion, and the average of our New Mexican exchanges award this con- pany much praise for their fidelity to the public. The Borderer of last Saturday has this upon the subject:
 The stage stock here are all sick, and MT. Cosgrove reports it all along the line west. Some of the horses here are in bad condition, yet it is hoped all can be saved. It is exceed ingly difficult to procure stock with which to start the Santa Fe coach on Monday.
 McCOrmick's Practical Work.
 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
 WASHINGTON. D. c. January 27, 1873.
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