Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-16
OUR MAIL SERVICE.
what Eastern Nevada Requires-A
Daily Mail from Eureka to Bel
mont via Tyhn-

Daily Mail from Eureka to Bel
mont via TybO.
The SENTINEL has on several occa.
sions referred to the necessity of the
establishment of a postal route between
this place and Belmont and Typo. The
pressing need of a daily mail between
these places is clearly demonstrated in q
well written communication appearing
in the last issue of the Belmont Cou.
rie7, but which, owing to it's length, we
are not able to publish. The CORE
spondent says in the close of his letter:
Typo, a camp of 900 inhabitants, and
an annual bullion product of over one
million, has no mail EXCEPT that fur.
nlshed by private enterprises. Bel
mont, the county-seat of Nye county,
receives her mail over the same route
that she did ten Years ago. From
Battle Mountain TO Belmont is two
hundred miles of the toughest staging
in the State. Still the Belmont mail
comes by that route, and her citizens
have to endure two days Of torture in
travelling to or from the Central Pa
cific railroad, while we are only one
hundred miles from Eureka and one
days staging is all that is necessary.
The editor of the Courier, in reply 70
the correspondent indorsing the views
as set forth in the letter, says: :
What the people of this section really
want and need just now is a daily mail
from Eureka to Belmont. The road is
the best in the Stale. Then a semi
weekly from Belmont to Belleville by
way of Cloverdale; a weekly line
from Lodi via Ellsworth and Ione to
connect with the Belleville line at
C%loverdale; a daily line from Bel
mont to Typo; a weekly line
from Typo to Reveille; a weekly
line from Tybo to Ward via
Duckwater, Currant Creek and
Upper White River. These lines are
an absolute necessity for the pros
perity of these communities, and we
do not believe that there would be any
trouble in convincing the Postal De-
par;ment of 1t, if we only bad some
n TO take all interest in it and lay
the facts properly before it. In
our Congressman elect, the Hon.
Thomas Wren, we have hopes OF bet
Ter days. He is an old resident If
hShnNNth tCNd'if II hiOhS VI III
" knowledge the utter despair that
has seized the old prospectors of late
years. We often hear them remark:
What Is the use to discover new dig
gi.gs? We are not able to work them
ourselves, nor can We put on mail
lines at ourown expense, and 1t is well
nigh impossible to open any new
camp without communication of some
kind with the outside world" Man
ayers of old camps in this part of the
State are becoming discouraged from
the fact that they not only have to con
tend against the natural obstacles in
cident 10 all new countries, but have
To put up the money for keeping open
communication with their San Fran
cisco offices; in fact, but for private en-
terrrise many amps would not now
know the result OF the presidential
election. We hold that the United
States mail should follow the pioneer,
that he may be able to let the world
know what he has found. and it is a
fact well attested that the Government
has always reaped a thousand fold
profit on all such transactions. Let Us
hope and trust that as soon as Con-
gresham Wren reaches Washington
he will make il his duty to request
and obtain from the Postoffice Depart
ment these much-needed mail lines.