The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1885-12-05
AN OUTRAGE.

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Ing the Mall Service Between Eu-
rska, Hamilton, Taylor and Phoebe.
When last Tuesdays mail brought
US the above unsavory news, our peo-
pie could hardly believe that the
authorities at Washington could for a
msment contemplate such . move.
Indeed, We of Taylor. owing to Our
growing population and business, had
in view, at no distant day, applying
for q daily mail. And We think the
demand would not be unreasonable.
But this cutting rs down to a semi
weekly is an outrage we should not
tsmsly submit to. Our people should
at once hold a mass meeting, set forth
our just claims, and send such Il strong
and lengthy petition to Washington as
will deserve consideration. Our Sena-
tors Off ne have any there) and Repre-
sentative in Congress should be imme-
diately tslegraphed to to stay this I'M
just postal order till we have time to
present our claims in due form to the
Postofice Department, when va feel
confident, the order will be rescinded,
at least SO far as it applies to Taylor.
Let us go to work at once-no time to
lose and get a dispatch through to
Washington, asking for a "stay of
proceedings for if the service is once
cut down, it will take no end of time
and red tape to restore it. That ever
vigilant guardian of the peoples rights
the Eureka 5entinsl-puts in the fol.
lowing strong Endorsement of our
claims:
Fer some time past the service to
Phoebe and towns along that route
among them Taylor-has been three
times n week, but according to an
order just received from the Depart
ment at Washington it has bsen re.
ducsd to twice a week and the time
expedited to SO hours each way. In
view Of the fact that the town of Tay-
Tor has increased considerably in
population and general importance
during the past eight months, and
inasmuch as IT bids fair To become
during the coming Spring the promi
nrnt center for n large section of
inhabited country in that part of the
State, this item of news will not be
relislled by the denizens thereof.
There is one feature ofthis service that
til. officials at Washington do not
realize, and that is this: The mails
that 20 into that section are very much
larger than those that come out. The
White Pine stage, which leaves Eureka
three times a week. carries on each
trip from eight to fifteen sackso of mail,
the great bulk of which is registered
packages from dry goods and ether
business h0usesin large cities East and
West. For this patronage to the pos
tai service the Offices in Taylor. Hamil-
ton and other interior towns there get
no credit. They are credited only
with the letters and few papers that are
ent GU from them, This belittles
them in the estimation of the Depart
ment at Washington, and the route
service allowed them is based on this
estimation, which is wrong and unjust,
for many q letter goes out that is
meant to bring in = package that pays
to the Department ten times as much
postage. Taylor deserves daily mail
service rather than one oftwice a week,
and the same can probably be said of
Phoebe and other points south during
the coming year ifhalfof the anticipa-
tions of the people there are realized.
The cut in the service entails not only
an Inconvenience to the people along
and at tine end of the route, but tn the
mail contractor, who, instead of having
to carry on each trip from 8 to ID
sacks of mail will have to carry from
IL to 22, or nearly a stage load.