Arizona weekly miner., 1874-03-27
MAILS IND NAIL ROUTES.

Those who have read Tuesdays Daily MINER have, of course, paid more or less at- tcntion to Mr McCormick's statements. That said statements will be severely criticised by some Vf our readers is 10 be expected, and it may be well enough 10 so cri,icise thea, since they are the words of servant of the people of Arizona. With them we have an entire statement of mail lettings on the Pa cifc Coast, by Mr c. A. Wetmore, corres- pendent of the San Francisco Alta Calitor' mia, and, by running up the figures, we find that our good, paternal government will have to pay, next year, about s10,oOO for carrying the mails in Arizona, whereas, it has, this year, to pay, for about the same service, something like S2j0,000.
 This reduction, all understand, is due to rivalry among bidders far mail contracts in this Territory. Well may our Delegate in- innate that the service upon some routes will not be as well performed for new as for old prices. That is not hard "guess." But, there is remedy: Contractors on the two main routes will beg for increased service and pray and ask people here to sign their petitions. This, some Arizorans say they will not do.
 In commenting upon the low figures of the Gila route, the Alta correspondent shoots far beyond the truth when he states that through out most of Arizona hay is $50 per ton bar ley cents per pound These articles do not bring more than one-haf these prices in the Territory.
 But, we started in to say that with the cutting down of prices, the Department could well afford to give us more and better mail facilities, and should be ashamed to deny us mail over our shortest route to New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas and other States. We will venture the assertion that, taking in view the number of white Ameri- can citizens in Arizona, they pay more reve-
 nue to the Department than the same num- Der of white people anywhere else in the country, and have less mail facilities, which | facts ought to be brought to the knowledge of the postmaster-G General and Congress, so
 that they will be enabled to see that mail
 service Cpon the Albuquerque route is not
 unnecessary" and that we need service upon some route between Hardyvile, in our | Territory, and the term nus of the Southern Pacific railroad in California, of which Mir
 Mccormick we'll says:
 | "This Is the most direct and natural route from
 San Francisco to Central and Northern Arizona" " l
 offer to give up service on two routes, as fol- | lows:
 1 To the Hon J. A. J. Cres,rsl, PostAaaster- General l Washington, D. C.:
 | We, the undersigned, residents of Ysvapa l county, Territory of Arizona do most earnestly ! join our petition with the citizens of MOhayS
 county, for the establishment Of mail service from | the town of Bakersfield, in the county of Kerr 1 in the State of California, to the town of Hardy l vile, Mohave county, A. T.. and do respectful, | represent that are in great need of a more di
 rect and speedy line of communication with ths | city of San Francisco, the commercial centre o | the Pacific Coast, that by the establishment o | said route VIC could obtain our mails n two ol
 three days less lime than it now requires for the ] transmission of the same from San Francisco ria | Los Angeles and san Bernardiuo; that we heartily
 endorse the movement taken by the citizens o
 our sister county, Mohsve, in petitioning for tho ! disestablishment of routes from Ehrenbcrg tc | Hardyvile and from Hardyyille to Pioche, in the State of Nevada, for the sake Of obtaining tho | establishment Of the route herein pctitioped for l Because we know that said routes are of minor 1 importance to the one prayed for, and could vel i bc dispensed with, by the establishment of saic | route from Bakersfield to Hardyville. Therefore we respectfully petition. Again, the main business of Walnut Grove
 and Bradshaw is with Prescott, and while
 we do not pretend to say that mail from | Wickenburg to these points is not needed
 VIC do say that contract for mail service be | tween Prescott and Bradshaw ought to b, ] let.