The Arizona sentinel., 1878-06-22
MOhaVe Mails,

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Eoffice Department seems to cover.
Fer the points of interest in this
& connection, and will inform the
gpublic of the present condition OF
Is matters which we have already
%agitated to some purpose. The
@letter is long, but contains moth
Sing which should be left out. Our
s Delegate, Mr.. Stevens, has prom
Nised to enforce attention to these
sthings, and we believe will now
edo so. Gov. Stafford will also add
#his testimony as to the response
ability of citizens who have en-
5dOrsed our statements. Some de-
CLAY and trouble will probably be
experienced in July; but the SER
svice will be performed, and is a
sgoOd one. Mails are to be carried
8tWice a week, in sixty hours,
Isfrom Ehrenberg to Mineral Park
svla Signal. The mails are con
astantly increasing in weight and
avolume. They will have to be
Scarried on wheels, and Mohave
xcounty will soon secure the only
thing that has retarded its de-
avelopment-facilities for people to
sget there:
5SIGNAL, MoHAvE Co., ARIZONA,
q June II, 1878.
4 Hon. r. J. BRADY, Second AS
ssistant Postmaster General, Con-
atract Division, Washington, d. c..
81 SIR: Your attention is respect
fully called to the following ills
3practiced in the mail service for
athis county, for the past three
amonths, and to the following sug-
ageStions for preventing their rep
setition after the first day of July
SneXt.
q The service from Aubrey, via
ASignal to Cerbat, was abandoned
Sduring the months of March, April
Wand May of this year. The citi-
8zens of Signal during those months
&obtained their mail from Aubrey,
5distant forty miles, by private sub
ascriptions amounting to fifty dol
Nlars for each trip, besides amounts
acollected by the carrier from par
Stie5 who were not regular sub
aScribers. During the present
SmOnth the mails are again being
Scarried by the contractor, thanks
Ito the action of your division.
8 For the four years beginning
SJuly l next, the route from Ehr-
$enberg to Mineral Park along the
COLORADO River has been abandon
Sed, and contract let on Route
d40, 105 between the same termini,
8via Aubrey, Signal, Whitney and
SFrees Wash; thus making the
%mailS of central and northern Mo
Shave county entirely dependent
Con this one route. The accepted
Ibid on this latter route was that
sOf James Peck, S4942 per annum.
NThe service provided for by your
SDivision, on this route, is satisfac-
tory to the people and is sufficient
$for their present and immediate
Hnecessities. But for the reasons
Agiven below, the service cannot
sand will not be performed by the
Sabove named bidder. The con-
sequences of suspension of mail
8service during the month of July,
aand until remedy can be applied
aby your Division, Will be diSas-
strous to this people. 1t is there
afore to be hoped that you will
AcauSe an agent of the PostOffice
department to be present on Route
4 10, 105, July /, with authority to
Ssecure temporary service thereon,
with reference rather to the cost
aof service, than to the accepted
Ibid of j. M. Peck. If the usual
HcourSe is followed of authorizing
#pOStmaSterS to secure temporary
Sservice at a compensation limited
ITO a reasonable advance upon the
aaccepted but defaulted bid, no SER
Jvice will be secured for weeks or
amonths. On the present route be-
atween Aubrey and Cerbat, after
amonths of abandonment of the
service, your division authorized
athe placing of service after May
s31, 1873, at rate not to exceed
S$2400 per annum. The service
could not possibly have been per-
3 fcrmed at that rate, and before
snecessary communications could
Shave passed between your office
sand Aubrey, the contract would
shave expired, June 80. By exer-
Scising the greatest economy, the
Service is now being performed,
Fat the contractors expense, at tn ei
rate of $40 per trip, or $364O per-
5annum; no profit of any kind isl
sbeing made. | write intelligent
Fly, having placed this service my
sself, and having traversed and|
scanvaSsed the entire route andI
ssubject; and owing to difficulty of
securing transportation of the!
Small for the sum at my command,
shaving myself carried the mail;