Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-06-25
Irregularities in the United States Nal in it's Transmission to and From
 the South.


 The mail service between Arizona
 and Sonora IS from some uBexplaIu-
 ed but not mysterious cause, most abom-
 inably and inexcusably bad. Both coun-
 tries are, without doubt, at fault, but
 with our neighbors we have nothing to
 do and would contemplate ourselves
 with an air of satisfaction and thanl,
 God that We are not as others If 1t were
 not for the simple and undeniable facl
 that we are a good deal worse. The
 main hitch SO far as can be ascertained,
 that is on this side of the line, is at or
 between here and Calabasas, where the
 mails between the two countries are ex-
 changed. GO south or come north the
 same delays are everywhere met. By
 stage the city of Hermosillo IS reached
 in two days; through the course
 of a United States mail bag, letter k
 making quick time if 1t gets to its destin-
 ation ten or fifteen days later on,
 and newspapers are lucky if they
 get there at all. The mail leaves here
 for Calabasas, twice per week and
 at the latter place seldom or never
 fails in missing connections with the
 meeting line, and when it once misses,
 there is possible chance of hav1ng il
 returned to Tucson for another start as
 was done with the entire contents Of
 mail sack a short time ago. The trans
 mission of matter through the mails IS in measure compulsory on the citizens of either country and is, where properly conducted an undeniable blessing, but from the hooks and crooks of the route in point the system IS, as whole, a blight on the entire service, and a det- riment to the citizens of both countries that seek the transaction Of business through the agency of the mails. Some one connected with the serviceis guilty of gross neglect, as there caq be no reasonable excuse why letters should on anaverage require ten days to gd through when a passenger going over the same route requires but two The delay in the mails IS, says Mir Demetrlo Velasco, a l source Of perpetual annoyahce and | trouble.
 Letters pertaining to business of im- ] portance, are because of their helay on | the road valueless and frequently entail l much loss as did one to MT. VAlasco on | the last trip up. It had been ten days . on the way so that on it's arrivalIhere the | cause for which the letter was written . had forever passed beyond h;s reach. Another letter coming by the sd me mail had been eleven days. seyeral3of them had been eight days and one lucky let ter had slipped through in five
 Gen. M. Escalante, now whiting in Tucson, stated when interrogateh on the subject, that his letters, although mailed in Hermosillo on stage days, did not reach him earlier than clever, and as late as thirteen days after the imprint of the first postmark. Newspapers were still more uncertain or If there Is any about it, it Is that they do not reach their destination at all. Mail matter from here going south limps md halts equally as much as nail matter comiug this way. Col. \. 5. Head seems to have had even worse experience than either of the gentlemen named, as upon one occasion he posted letters in Magdelena for uends inthe and United States, after ,eriOd of about eight days they were eturned to him, or rather to the post 'fiice at Magdelena. from Calhbasas. The mail sacks had not even been 'peHed. Tms and much more can be ,roven. IT the mail difficulties are not the Government should at . east give its citizens the priyelege of , aving their mails carried by private onveyance and thus save much time, rouble, in convenience and loss.