Arizona citizen., 1875-08-14
STAGE AND MAILS

Last week, we mentioned that Messrs. Kerens & Mitchell and J. A. Moore and MT. Merrill were in town on stage and mail affairs, and that it was in contemplation to make some improvements. The first three named gentlemen remained until Monday evening when they started west. Messrs Kerens 6 Mitchell would go right along to Yuma where they would lie over one stage to settle some matters, and then proceed to San Diego. MT: Mitchell expects to soon return over the route.
 | The improvements i'll contemplation are new stages between Tucson and Yuma, just as soon as they can be hauled from San Diego where they are now in readiness also four horses to be used on all the long desert routes. We believe these changes for the bet ter will be advantageous to she pro prietors as well as to the travelling public. The Pinal and other mining developments are already increasing travel and traffic by stage, and to all appearances must continue to.
 While here the gentlemen. named talked up tho shipment Of nei chal4- disc in the mails with the people gen. erally, and found the sentiment de- cidedly against it, and as a conse- quence, & petition or protest on the sub- iect to the Postmaster General, was prepared and generally signed by merchants and other business people of Tucson. It has always seemed to us that if postmasters were instruct ed somewhat as follows, the evil would very soon cease and the law be executed according to its evident in tent, viz: When 8 quantity of four pound parcels are deposited in a post office addressed to one firm or other wise so as to arouse suspicion, and the postmaster has good reason for be- lieving they contain merchandise and not samples of merchandise" as al- lowed by law, that he decline to for ward the same at once ascertain who deposited in his office such matter and inform him or them of his action. Then offer to let the articles be with drawn from the office, and if not withdrawn, inform the shipper or mailer, that the packages would not go forward until compelled by an order of court. The postmaster should hold the packages for evidence on the trial.
 With such a prospect ahead, we think very little merchandise would be put in the mails by any body-merchants or other persons.
 THE Piute Indians in Nevada are, to some extent, engaged in quartz mining The Humboldt Register, of a late date, says that "Capt. John and several "other Flutes are industriously at "wOrk upon their mine in the foothills, "north of Winnemucca Mountain "The ore assays from $50 to $2OO per "ton." It is not above ten years since the neighbOrhoOd around and about | Winnemucca was infested with hostile Piute Indians; now some of them are mining; some farming; some teaming; some cutting and hauling wood and in fact are doing nearly everything the whites do in the way of labor for self support Ten years from this time, we have little doubt but some of the Aba ches will be doing as the Flutes above mentioned.
 DR ToNNER has completed the much talked ditch, at the Colorado reserva- tion. The water is running through it very satisfactorily, notwithstanding the assertions of his enemies that it would not run up hill, and the Dr has gone to San Francisco to procure redwood lumber for the tunnels. This ditch will be great advantage to the reservation, and materially assist in rendering those Indians self sustain- ing Miner, August 6.
 A BAD little boy, upon being promis- ed five cents by his mother if he would take a dose of castor oil, obtained the money, and then told his parent that she might costor oil in the street.