Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-11-18
THE MAIL QUESTION.


1t is a splendid mine, and the owners
know it.
THE MAIL QUESTION.
1t will be remembered that the SEN
TINEL took occasion m day last week
to protest against certain changes pro-
posed in the mail service of this sec
ton. Eureka is perhaps deeply
interested in the matter than any
other community to be affected by the
contemplated changes. All of the
routes that are to be disturbed radiate
from this point. Eureka with her rail-
connection with the outside world in
the o important town in Eastern
Nevada, and instead of her mail facili-
ties being in n anne curlailed
they should be increased. Between
Eureka and Belmont and between
Eureka and Austin every considera-
ton touching the public n y fence
demands that there should be daily
communication. The ReyciIe takes
up the subject, and on the part of the
people of Austin enters y solemn
protest against the contamination Of
the schemes inaugurated by Clugage
" Co. 1t also throws additional light
on the subject as follows:
We will here state as a confirma-
ton of the SENTINEL's charge that this
is "A Clugage job; that Postmaster Glib
son received a similar. letter from the
Department at Washington. and TINT
he was interviewed through the me-
dunn OF a letter from o. fuller, ST.,
at Washington, requesting him to
tatf1Inl1 hta rAD1xy rrnti1 Mr.
should arrive in Austin and have a
talk with him about it. Mr.. Clug-
age came here and had the talk, and
what effect he had on MIR. Gibson
will be- shown by the following copy
of that gentleman's reply to the let
Ter of the Second Assistant Postmas-
ter General:
AUSTIN, New, Nov. l3. 1875.
To James n. Tyner, Second Assistant
Postmaster General, Washington,
ID. G.
SIR: In reply to yours of the I'd
instant 1 will state that a tri- weekly
mail service from Belmont to Austin
is ample mail facilities; likewise, !
would snggest that the same service
be established between Belmont and
Eureka. But ] vas taken by surprise
on reading your suggestion to di>cou-
time route As, us [Austin to Eureka],
the most important route of the three
mentioned. | have cOunseled with
The principal business men of this city,
and they unanimously request me to
represent the necessity OF having route
45,llS increased to six times a week. l
shall here present To you the evil OF
disseminating route 45,1lS. From Aus
tin tn Eureka the distance is 20 miles,
northeast; from Eureka to Belmont,
l0i miles, nearly west; from Belmont
to Austin, 80 miles north. Our ON
munication with Phoebe, Hamilton,
Cherry Creek and all intermediate
points would, bv the proposed change,
have to take such a circuitous route as
would take at least one week to get a
letter to or from Phoebe.
Respectfully, WIN. GIBSON,
Postmaster, Austin, Nevada.
The above letter fully explains the
situation. BY the discontinuance Oi
ie line to Eureka, a person IN Austin
desiring to 20 TO Eureka, Hamilton.
Cherry Creek, Phoebe or intermediate
or adjacent points must go around by
Belmont or Battle Mountain, being
forced in eiiher case to pay tribute TO
fuller & Clugsge and being subjected
to great e pense and loss of time, and
all mail matter would have 10 take the
same circuitous route.
On behalf of the People Of Austin
we protest against this attempt to
place moi only this but several other
towns at the mercy OF these mail CON
tractors. and we ask the Intervention
Of our Senators and Representative in
Congress 10 ave Us from further en-
rroachments, by e~presenting the
matter in it's proper light to the De-
partment at Washington. W. have
been long-snffering and patient under
The heel of the monopoly that has its
grip on us; hui they must not go too
Ear, or they will find that they have
disturbed a hornets nest which they
will wish they had let alone.
GEDDEs & neutrality-suspicious.
ent Cahill yesterday showed us the re-
suits of eight assays taken from va
rious portions Of the mine, and con-
sidered by Mr.. Cahill to be a fair sam
| pie Of the ore of the mine from top to
bottom and throughout all OF the lew
| els and drifts. We give them as fol-
lows: sos 81. 1927 20, S207 IS, 800 II.
$54 10 s3l7 81, S675 AZ, $lls Is. The
average of the ore in the whole mine.
"a shown by these eight assays is
sos Is. This IL certainly a very graf
flying outlook. more particularly when
il is considered that there are thou
sands of tons Of the same kind of ore
already developed in the company's
mine. The furnace Ia again IN full
blast and is running to the entire salts
faction of the superintendent. The
Geddes Il Bertrand was rather late this
season in getting its smelling works in
operation, hut under the present able
management we shall expect it to take
rank next season as one Of the leading
| productive properties of the Great
East.
SENTENCED.-Charles Watts, the in
dlvidual who was convicted by a jury
in the Police Court last Tuesday OF
petit larceny in stealing n Henry rifle,
was yesterday sentenced by Justice
Beatty to pay a fine of S2ls or be i'm
prisoned in the County Jail for term