Arizona citizen., 1875-02-20
DAILY MAIL SERVICE.


 Territory want daily mail service; w'
 want 1t on the great through overland
 from the Rio Grande valley to San Diego
 and the people of Mohave and Yavapa
 counties want the same accommodation
 on their San Bernardino route. In obe
 dience to their wishes, the late Legislative assembly passed and the Governor ap proved of the following memorials:
 To the PostmasterGeneralo of the United States. relative to the mail service i'll Ari-
 zona: Your r11emorialists, the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona, re- | spectfully represent to you the great inn .pOrtance Of the mail route from San Die go, California, via Tucson, Arizona, to Me
 silla, New Mexico, and of the mail route | from San BernardinO, California, via Pres | colt, Arizona, 10 Santa Fe, New Mexico;
 and believing that they are the most inn portant mail routes in this Territory by
 which the whole of the Territory, includ-
 ing the military posts, and the United 1 States army therein, are supplied with | their mails, and that the present mail 1 service on said routes is inadequate to the | fast growing wants Of the Territory; and | that the Territory Of Arizona has less
 mail facilities than any other of the Terri tories, there being now no daily mail ser vice within the Territory; and believing further that continued and daily mail ser vice and communication through new Territories eXertS a civiliZing influence upon wild and noinadic tribes, and tends
 to the more rapid development of the great mineral ana other productive inter eStS of the country; we therefore earnest
 ly ask your favorable consideration of this our memorial, and, for the reasons above set forth, to place upon the foregoing men, toned mail routes, a daily mail at as early a day as practicable.
 And be il resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory Of Arizona,
 
 rial, the Secretary of the Territory is here by requested to forthwith transmit copy of the same to the PoStmaster-General and also to our Delegate in Congress.
 Gov. Stafford approved this memorial and the people generally hope that it will not be long before it's requests are granted. There is daily service to San Diego on the west, and to Mesilla-almoSt to Arizona on tine east. Every argument that could possibly be urged in favor of daily service from Santa Fe to Mesilla, applies with even greater force to that part of the route under consideration. The population all along the line is fastincre asing; new farm ing settlements are yearly opened; within the past year, scores of valuable mines hitherto unknown, now have many men at work upon them. The thriving mining town Of Silver City, New Mexico, and Clifton, Arizona, near by Silver City, need this increased service. The farming set dement's Of Pueblo Viejo, San Pedro, San- ta Cruz, Gila and other valleys-including the great one of Salt river-will all be ben efited by daily service. The military posts of Fort Bayard, Camps Bowie, Grant, Apache, Lowell, Yuma and Mcdowell, and Chiricahua, San Carlos and Pima Ind ian agencies, all need 1t. Tucson is the most populous town between Santa Fe and San Diego and is the Territorial capi- tai, with number of the most important United States civil offices located in it- the United States depositary alone de- manding more frequent communication, and it is also the only point for hundreds of miles where a mail route leads from the United States into Mexico; then pass west but eighty miles, and we find the fourishing town of Florence with the off, ces of the United States land register and receiver, with which daily communication is very important consideration as re- gards mineral and agricultural land busi- ness; then passing through Sanford, the Puma Indian reservation, Maricopa Wells, all the lower Gila settlements, and we come to Yuma, the principal shipping port in Arizona, to and by which govern ment ships all its supplies for the army and Indians of Arizona. All the places named and many others would feel the beneficial influence of @ daily mail service, and surely further delay 10 order it will hardly be justifiable, considering the many and increasing public and private interests-and all private enterprises in a large sense affect the public ones-to be aided and stimulated by it. Congress rec egnized the utility of a telegraph through and to various points in Arizona, and made the appropriation to build it, and is now about appropriating larger sum to connect the Arizona, and New Mexico lines. In view of these many evidences of a private and public character in behalf Of speedy and frequent communication through Arizona, we hardly think the Postmaster-Generalw will hesitate to grant the requests of the legislature as set forth in the foregoing memorial.
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