The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-10-05
where Salisbury got his Work In.

zona, and which did not originate
at Phoenix, it was ordered by the
! POStOffice Department that daily
mail service should be put OF
| October 1St, between Phoenix and
point on the great daily route
between Yuma and Fort Worth
MaricOpa Wells was to have beer
that point, and all arrangements
were progressing for carrying out
the order. 1t then occurred tC
Gilmer, Salisbury s. Co., that, as
long as they controlled the only
stage route from railroad termi-
nus to Prescott, travellers to and
from there would be compelled
to ride on the vehicle, they are
now using; there is 10 escape
from that. But if Il connection is
ever made between Ph9nix and
Maricopa Wells, then passengers
can travel between Prescott and
railroad, via Gillette, Phoenix and
the Wells. on decent wagons and
on the really good four-horse
coaches now being put upon the
Tucson road by KerenS 4 Griffith.
This would compel Gilmer, Sails
bury & Co. to put on decent
wagons or to lose business.
So Salisbury waited until hot
Weatherat Washington drove the
heads of Departments Of to water
ing places, and then he induced
an Acting Second Assistant Post
master General to rescind the Cr-
der giving Phoenix that daily
mail.
Salisbury did it! 7Iay he be
cursed to ride on one cf his Ari-
zona buckboards till he be dead,
(he would not live twenty days
no man would and then be haul
ed on it till his carcass be frayed
as badly Us a letter that has been
hauled on one from Yuma to
Prescott, under passengers feet,
kegs Of liquor and boxes CT mer-
chandiSe.
His firm does not deserve q
friend in Arizona. 1t has done
Yavapai County irreparable in
jury by aifording no conveyance
for passengers, except such as few
men can ride on and live. Its
Washington l0b5y-partner has
now tried his hand at keeping
down Maricopa County; aud for
while is succeeding. But this
firm has not contracted to carry
passengers: ii carries mails; and
it carries these SO badly that
nothing worse has ever been
known. During the month of
August not a single mail was de-
iiVered On time at either end Of
Gilmer, Salisbury & Co.'s route;
nor were proper efforts made to SO
deliver them. The roads were bad
then, and we were all disposed
to give them a fair chance, al
though their schedule only called
for a speed of IS miles per hour.
The roads have been good during
September; yet this miserable
firm still carries mails in a scan
dalous manner. Their huckbOards
have no boots in front or behind,
no sides, and many Of them have
no covers. Mail-bags are piled
on the bottoms and there tied; |
on top Of them are loaded pas5en-
gers, kegs and boxes. Nothing
gees through that mail without |
being mashed and crushed. No
protection is afforded against rain,
and the mails often get here q |
mess Of Illegible pulp. Prescott |
can say in what condition they |
arrive there. We are telling
nothing new; every man liz Yuma
has seen this Wretched excuse for |
a mail line. The very horses are
ashamed OF it; the drivers blush
for II; there is no prancing and |
whip-cracking through town; but
the outfits sneak up to the post
Office and try to escape notice.
All this might have been en-
dured, in hopes Of a reformation;
but when Salisbury "got in"
some of his iObby-work, and tried |
to kill that daily mail for Phoenix,
right there Arizona " sOured " on !
him forever. Next in order now
are petitions for removal of any
mail-agent whom Salisbury is