The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-05-20
STAR ROUTES.
The Investigation still Goes
BrRYeIy On More
Exposures.

New York, 49, Times Washington:
The great political sensations OF the day
may oveTshadow, but they do not dis
turb the investigation in progress under
direction of the postmaster-geneial. The
work of examining records and papers
and accommodating evidence against the
members of the ring il going on slowly
but surely. It ia intended the inVestiga-
tion shall be thorough, therefore, it can
not be completed in few days. There
is vast field to be covered. Some divi-
sions OF the investigation are but just be-
gun. The table of ninety-thrse Star
routes, published some time ago by
authority of the department, was only .
sample Of the work of the rings. II con-
tains some of the most striking ex-
amples Of rascality which can be
found in the service, but there are
hundreds Of routes outside Of that list
which the ring have manipulated, and
She field which demands investigation
stretches away on all sides of that list
The field is wide and the examination of
it needs time. Foundations for an ex-
hsustiye Investigation are being laid with
great care, AS for reduction in the coat
Of service already made, the routes upon
which action has been taken have been,
except those reported by the commission
in the south, those which came under the
eyes OF the officers from day to day in
the regular course Of business. Search
for useless service has begun, bat except
in steamboat routes and one or two other
cases, its results have not yet appeared.
A Times correspondent gives the his
tory Of several Star route contracts, of
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inent: Route No. 3S,0l8, from Monu-
ment to River Bend, Colorado, held by
the Dorsey combination, shows some
very suggestive facts. Distance, 5915
miles; service, twice 8 week; time, thirty
three hours. Here we're twenty bidders,
the highest s., $40, and the lowest,
Joshua ii. Watts, of Santa Fe, $948.
The contract WAS awarded to Watts, and
the latter sublet the route 70 n. 3. Will
lisms, of Denver, for ST. 200. 1t wal
soon announced that Watts had failed,
and the route was relet TO A. H. Brown,
by Brady, for $1,000. In thirty-tWo
days after the route had come into the
possession of Brown, orders were issued
by Brady, which raised the pay of 81 200
to Sill, 200, and the trips we're increased
to seven per week, and the time reduced
from thirty.three to seventeen hours.
Brown had received on this route ST3, 600,
and, for the same time, under the orig
inal contract, Watts would have received
about 81 000 There is sworn testimony
to the effect that Watts, Miner, Peck and
Dorsey we're partners. Watts seems TO
have been unfortunate and to have gone
out of the combination.
Route No. SO ll3, from Rawlins to
White River, Colorado, WAS let to John
w. Dorsey, for Sl,701 1t afterwards
passed into the hands of ex-senator Dor
sey The service was once & week, dis
lance $50 miles, time los hours. The
service was finally increased to seven
trips per week, and the pay to S30,9Sl.
Theroute No. 46, 1872, in southern Cali.
fornis, from Julian to Cotton, the con
tractors annual pay was raised frorl
S1,l88 per yesr to S. $40. The line is in
the hands OF the Dorsey combination, snC
the contractor is j. NJ. Peck, ex-senator
Dorsey's broiher-in-law. The bidders
were Zemri Mcdonald, S2,393; William
Buckley, $3.50; a. Westmore, S2,346
N. V. Nichols, 81, 2e0; VIM. j. Hogan
$2,2O4; William II. Grihiihs, 81, 1855
Hugh White, $1,000; Knight s. Deaner
$l,S00; II. w. Robinson, 81, 7S8; o. j
SALISBURY, al,loU; b. Rrica, ~. ooI; jacob
Bergman, 81, coo; Stewart & Pierson
$l.5s9; h. E. Parks, 81, 400; j. II. Peck
si,lSS
J. G. Hayes is evidently q man WHIT
lived in the vicinity Of the route and be-
came q sub-contractor from the begin
ming Of the term with an annual pay o
81, 069. His understanding with Peel
being, that il the service should be in
creased 10 two trips per week, he woulC
receive 81, lSs; for three trips per week
81, 20T; and for ak trips per week, S6, 4l5
| This fub-coutTact was Withdrawn atte
it had been in force for three months
and the route was turned over to II. Nj
Vaile, April lst, for the full contrac
price. Vale had come into the Dorsey
combination. The additions were made
after March. The papers upon which
orders for increase and expedition wer'
based, consisted OF a petition, endorsed II
the usual manner by members of Con
grees from California. The clerk IL
charge of the case reported that the an
nusl revenue of the four Offices which
would be benefited by the increase ana
| expedition, was only 1914. The addi
tional pay was 81, 722.