Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-05-16
The Mail Routes.
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EDITOR CHRONICLE
| Change is written over almost every
thing, and the mail facilities in the west
ern part of Iowa county have lately come
under it's power. 1t seems to me at
mail routes and mail service ought to be
established for the benefit of the people !;
but it is not always that they are so es-
tablished. A large number of people in
the western part Of Iowa county, get Their
mail matter at the Highland post office,
and do most of their local business with
Dodgeville and Mineral Point, the county
scat and the Metropolis Of Iowa county.
Let US see how long it takes for letter
to reach either Dodgeville or Mineral
Point, by either Of the routes by which it
may be sent. First, letter may be sent
northeto the railroad at Muscoda the day
following it goes by "rai' to Arena, and
on the third day Gf it has good luck and
makes all the connections), it will reach
Dodgeyile Or Mineral Point
Three days to reach points eighteen or
twenty miles distant respectively :! Sec
ond we may start it south and it will reach
Mon,fort the first day, when it will remain
over night the second day Gf The weather
is fine), it reaches Mineral Point, and the
third day it finds its way to D0dgeville.
By this route, it takes two days.to reach
Mineral Point, and three days TO reach
Dodgeville. If the letter is started from
Dodgevile for Highland, by the mail
north to Arena. on Monday, Wednesday
or Friday, it will only be taco days on the
I:road, If on any other day in the week,
It will be three days on the way. If y
iIineral Point it cannot be less than three
days on the way, and will be four f sent
to Mineral Point on Monday, Wednesday,
or Friday.
From Mineral Point, a letter cannot be
less than two days. Our county papers
reach Highland in the next week aFtcg
they are published. Splendid mail priv
leges these NVhy, sir, the people would
be better served to HRS some one 10 carry
the mail in a wheelbafrow, between the
| points mentioned.
But perhaps the P. NJ. General ana
our NJ. c.. thinking those who get the :
mail matter at the Highland post Office
are mostly Democrats, take this method
to convert them to what they are pleased
to consider the orthodox doctries of Re
publicanism but its tendency will be
xactly the reverse It will cause many
of the Republicans, good men too, to
refuse to fight with the Republican NJ. c.
in the next congressional fight. They feel
so, and so express themselves. Their rea-
sons are about these. Montfort is little
village that does not do one-third the
business Highland does. Ali that is nee
essay there, is for leading Republican 10
say, Don't leave Montfort out in the
cold % and 10 Montfort has daily mail
from the railroad north (tri- weekly from
| Muscoda and tri-weekly from Bosco5el
on different days., and daily mail from
the railroad south ltri-weekly from Platte
vile and Mineral Point.
Large petitions are sent up from the
western part of Iowa county and 20 atten
ton is paid, to-. them, although the route
from Mineral Point TO Boscobel, might
have been established via. Highland, and
supplied all the points it now supplies
Montfort excepted, which could be sup
piled from Highland by the mail to Platte
Vile, or around by the way of Platteville
] True the route would be few miles lon
ger mot to exceed fve) but the better
roads would about balance the increase in
distance r..
But [ do not write with the purpose
of attempting to tear up what our Post
Master General and Member of Congress
in their wisdom have established, because
i, l suppose it couldn't be did" We are
"off with, the old love-" let US propose tt
the new. =,
Let us ask something new, 1t is only
eighteen miles from Dodgeville to High
land, by the way of James Mill.
If we can, get daily mail over that
route connecting with the Mineral Point
mail at Dodge4ille, we have daily cammu
nication with both places, something
devoutly to be wished, by all the poop ID
along the route. This it seems to me can
be accomplished. Will the people o
bod evile and Mineral Point move in the
matter James Mill and Highland pos
Offices will follow. Yours, &c. K.
Highland, May Z, 1868.