The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-12-12
lfrcm Thursdays Daily Indian, Mail and other Matters.

1uuldu, ludAl dAu OblcT mdtt6TS, l We aOe TO, quite certain that the letter of Hon. R. G. Mccormick, Delegate in Congress from tiis Territory, which appeared in re- cent number of the DAILY MINER, and which we print in our weekly issue, was meant for publication. Certain it is, nothing therein contained was of private nature, but, on the contrary, all its contents were of a public na- ture and of interest to many readers of the MINER, SO we took the responsibility of pub fishing, and shall now proceed to give it a mild review. '
 couple of months ago, we wrote Mr, McC. for information concerning the western bound ary of the Verde Indian Reservation People down there, who have houses, farms, stock etc, wanted to know where they stood, whether on or off the reserve. They were there long before that courier of the Indian Ring, V. Colyer, came here and made grab ot land for the reservation alluded to, which grab was made at Camp Verde, blindly and regardless of consequences.
 If we are not mistaken, his western line takes in most of the land belonging to the settlers in Upper Chino Valley. If so, the sooner said line is contracted, the better will it be for Government, People and Indians. For it, the Indians have no earthly use, as without it they have some forty miles in length by twenty in width, of river, mesa and mountain lands.
 Upon learning these facts, it is fair to pre- sume that President Grant will right the wrong-ii wrong there be-made by Mir. Colyer -s e rIta' f The steps taken in this matter, by Mir. Mccormick, strikes us as being of the right kind, and we have no doubt concerning what the action of Or. ToDner will be in the matter. Tue paragraph referring to the demand of Catholic Bishop Salpointe, of this Territory, shows that that prelate wishes to "elevate" some of our Indians, and we shall not object to giving him chance to try his hand at the business.
 This brings us to speak of Mail Matters, and before proceeding farther we will state that nobody here has ever, to our knowledge, found fault wit1the service, as performed by the present contractor, Mir. James Grant He has performed this service we'll and faith fully. But people gre, and have been, dis satisfied with his mode of conveying passen- gers over what, owing to large mail subs dy, is our main thoroughfare to California and the East, and, they do not lay upon Mir. Grant the entire blame for what appears to them . sin against Northern Arizona No, they ac- cuse you, Mir. Mccormick, of having an in- terest with Mr. Grant, and of helping him to injure this section by running such ontland- ish, uncomfortable passenger vehicles as tor turing buck boards They say, and with great show of truth on their side, that Gov ernment has all along been paying Mir. Grant sufficient money to pay him for carrying its mails and to accommodate travellers, by run ming some kind of civilized vehicles, between this place and points in Southern Arizona and California The cry is that more people would come here to look at our mines, and the country in general, if better means of getting here were offered, and of this we have not doubt.
 But, above and beyond all this, the three or four thousand Americans in Northern Ar izona have been, are yet, unable to sec why they, as well as a much less number of their brethren in Southern Arizona, have not had-have not now-tri-w weekly mail ser vice upon any route in, going out of, or lead. ing to, this section. True it is that head quarters of the department of Arizona are in Northern Arizona; true it is that the busi- ness of the post office department is greater in Northern than in Southern Arizona, yet the people of Southern Arizona have tri. weekly service east and west, while we have to do with selai-weekly service from Prescott to California Again, Mohave county, with population of nearly one thousand white men, derives no benefit from this semi week. y
 
 Now, Mir Mccormick, we will give you credit for having done a great many thing, for this section, and believe that it is utterly impossible for you to do everything that i, required of you by an exacting constituency but, you have now been in Congress, as ths representative of this Territory, for nearly six years, and it is we'll known that you have failed to induce Government to do its duty to the Territory in the matter of providing it's citizens with the right kind of mail facil ities, with Capitol buildings, Territoria prison, assay office, and other things and nee essary institutions, which the representative of other Territories have secured for tbei people
 When you were here, as Governor and Sec retary of the Territory, your every efor was for increased mail service, and your pc route to California was that via Hardyvlle Mohave county, which route you now appea to, in a great measure, ignore. Perhaps yo are not posted concerning this route. Flo fear you may not be so posted, we make bolt 10 tell you that it is now considered th shortest and best route from the end of th Southern Pacific Railroad in California; ha living on and near it more Americans tha arc to be found on any of the other ma rvgtes in this Territory and Southern Cal fornia is an almost direct line to the larges towns of New Mexico, with which all ou people have great desire to connect then selves. by mail
 We write in no spirit of opposition to yo, Mr McCosmick, but the truth must be tol though the Heavens fall, and we tell trut in informing you that the people all throug Northern Arizona say you ought, long ag' to have succeeded in getting tri-weekly ma service from California to New Mexico, c some route; that, while every military po in Southern Arizona is supplied with mail, ihs usual way, posts here have to depen upon military escorts for mail matter.
 IA to having done injustice to Mir Gran we bee. leave to differ with you, and thin you erred in stating thaf, "ln May last was ordered to reduce his schedule time, ar allowed at the rate of Sl5,OOO per annu therefor"
 On the eoatrsry, our people have an id rk4A the ordar was for a shortening