The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-01-31

An iatsrsssas 'c~smmunicaiioa from II Old
minsr Who Speaks His Mind Freely.
GALENA CITY, BLACK HILLS,
January Doth. 1877.

4 CITH, BLACK HILLS,
-fs January goth, 1877. I'd
To the Editor Cheyenne Leader:
Permit me to offer a few brief re-
marks through your columns on things
generally and mails in particular. We
of the Hills are certainly the victims Of
q little speculation somewhere in the
postal department, which, in justice to
us, ought to be unearthed. 1t seems
that our mail matter, both from the east
and west,
PLAINLY DIRECTED VIA CHEYENNE,
is being delivered from the postal car of
the u. p. at Sidney, and eventually
finds its way to Deadwood by the Sid
ney stage, which is supposed to reach
us ono a week, but fails somewhat in
time, which makes our western mail of
little interest after laying over a few
days waiting the starting day, and
then consuming eight Oh ten days on
the journey, whereas, il left at Chey-
enne, they would reach us in FIVE days
by Cheyenne stage, which arrives regu-
larly twice each week. Now the query
is, why is it that the U. s. mails are
not delivered as directed? Certainly
no postmaster would be implicated in
such a silly game.of that nature, and it
is equally certain that postal agents
upon the q. p. would not, for they are
ALL HONORABLE MEN,
and even if they were not, they would
evidently expect a consideration ION
the side," which it is not reasonable to
presume that the good people of Sid
ney would offer. Yet with all these
facts, there is a steal somewhere, and a
contemptibly mean one at that, and an
levident lack of attention to duty on the
part of some one whose business it is to
see the law made and provided for the
government Of such matters properly
enforced. Otherwise there would be a
regiment of clerks, and possibly post
masters, on the tramp for another job.
Situated as we are here, it is a serious
inconvenience, and extremely %aggravat-
ing, to have our mail matter so delayed,
and 1 but speak the Sentiments of the
whole community when l denounce it
as
VIOLATION OF LAW
and unworthy the name. of decent steal
ing. If these men are for sale, why
not let us put in a bid on them and
secure the bringing of u mail as it is
directed? 1 venture to say that we can
outbid Sidney. Or, if there is any law,
let it be enforced, and if it is unlawful
for them to carry it past the point by
which it is directed, then punish the
offenders as the law directs. We are
developing perhaps the
BEST MINING COUNTRY
of the same area in North America.
Every day brings stronger evidence of
the fact, until it almost seems that we
have unlocked the very vault of the
worlds wealth in gold, silver, copper,
iron, etc. We have timber in seemingly
inexhaustible supply, casting its deep
shades eastward to the unfenced, house.
less and uncultiyated plains, and its
sharp reflections upon the stupidity of
man, who leaves these towering pines
year by year as toys only for the idle
winds. We have streams of available
power for manufacturing purposes,
valleys of broad acres needing only the
YEoMAN's MAGIC TOUCH
to shoot forth s'the blade, then the ear -
and store his bins with ripened grain.
Grass abounds on a thousand hills,
where flocks may feed and fatten. The
Hills are an oasis, not only in the
desert of land, but in the financial
depression Of the day, with an inherent
value to our common country meal
culable and beyond the comprehension
of the shrewdest financier, and yet the
wheels of government move slowly on
to their recognition as a part and parcel
of its domain, leaving us to
PROTECT DUE LIVES
with our rifles and adjust our conflict
ing interests by meetings of miners, in
lieu of lawfully organized courts. We
have been dependent for our mails
upon OK and mule teams, slowly
vending their way to the Hills
heavily laden with freight, and now,
when the Cheyenne Stage Co. have
fully stocked and equipped the road and
have for the past two or three months
been making tri-weekly trips with per
feet regularity, eve in the worst of the
storms, and have generously brought in
and taken out all mail matter delivered
to them, free of charge, it appears that
we are to be swindled out Of the benefit
Of it all inst for the paltry sum and
consideration of a few dollars paid to
the postal agents to s-' i-'a
Ep STEAL THE MAILS
from their regular course and place
them in the hands Of a soeakly Sidney
Stage Co., to be delivered here at ten
cents for each paper or letter. However,