The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-29
NO. 38.


 old, broken down horses, wholly unfit for
 the service, instead of upon wagons as it
 might and should be, except from Ehren-
 berg to Hardyville; over that route wag-
 on cannot pass, but our mail should not
 pass over that route as it takes longer to
 come to us that way than it would if it
 came by way of Prescott or Greenwood.
 During the year, or since our mail was
 changed from the Prescott route, it has
 been suffered to accumulate at Ehrenberg for weeks, until the arrival of a steamboat
 passing up the Colorado river will allow its shipment. This has occurred not only
 once, but time, time and again, and the
 abuse is still being practiced While other
 portions of the Territory obtain their mail
 two or three times week, i'll from two to
 six days time from San Francisco, our mail
 is from two weeks to four months in tram
 sit, and we have good reason to believe, in ] fact, we know, not a little of our mail never i CT reaches us at all. And when our mail 1 does come, it is often so chafed and muti- lated by ride of from 150 to 300 miles on i horseback that it cannot be identified Not ! week but that more or less of the mail i that comes to the Mineral Park office is entirely ruined.
 1 Mail carriers have wilfulIy passed by postOffices to suit their own convenience; they could save few miles travel thereby. The mail has often beer sent forward by steamboats and by freight wagons; has been carried by Indians and Mexicans, wholly irresponsible; by boys under tue age of 16 yeais, and by parties lot sworn in as required by law
 There seems to be no regard to mails connecting, consequently mails lay over in some offices two or three days. The Cali fornia mail reaches Hardyville on Monday and lays there until the following Thurs day. The mail from Greenwood reaches Cesbat on Thursday and lays there until the following Sunday.
 Blackberry, 6 thriving mining camp with a population of from 100 to 200. has been two years without mail service, and its cit izens have to go 30 miles for their mail, although the mail contractor from Prescott to Hardyville would have but about 10 miles more travel to pass through that way.
 We have repeatedly appealed to the department to have the route changed to go to that place, but in vain. The schedule timeis now so long that good walker can near:y walk it through on tune; thing necessary though for the kind of stock used in transporting the mail.
 While other counties are all supplied with mail twice d week. to daily direct from San Francisco, we only get ours by circuit ous routes and careless handling, once week, after it has been brought to our Ter ritory at points farther from us, in point of time, than it was when mailed.
 Ours is the northwestern county of Ari- zona, and we never have been supplied with anything like fair proportion of mail service, and it has been much to our dis advantage that it has been so, because if we had quick and direct mail connections with San Francisco, not only would we have had betterfacilities for the transaction of business, but it would have added to our and we should have had a line of mail coaches running to and from Cali fornia, thus supplying a public necessity and insuringa greater degree of prosper ity Yet in spite of all Encouragement, 5Iohave county has more quartz mills and is shipping more bullion than any other county in the Territory. Three. mills are now running and five more being con- structcd. Two saw mills and two furnaces are within the county, and we are steadily increasing in population and wealth.
 And now be it
 Resolved, That we petition our govern ment for a redress of grievances. That we petition for the establishment, at once, of l sem-weekly mail from MOhave Station, ln the Southern Pacific railroad, via Rest ng Spring and Ivanpah, California, to Mineral Park, Arizona. Also for an order directing contractors to carry our mail lpOu wagons, on all practicable rontes, Instead of horseback. And, also, for the essening of the schedule time upon all 'outeS. And be it further
 Resolved, That we petition the postoflice department to send a postal agent to this county to see the state of things, to the end hat present abuses may be corrected.
 Be it Resolved, That the thanks of the people of this county are due and are tcn- lered tO the press of our sister counties, nd especially to the Yuma SENTINEL for ts OutSpoken condemnation of the way Fe are treated by government and mail contractors.
 Resolved, That copy of these preambles md resolutions be forwarded to Governor iOyt, now at Washington and to our dele gate in Congress, and request them to act ogether and try and secure us prooer and adequate mail service.
 Resolved, That copy of these preambles md resolutions be sent to the Yuma SEN A~e