Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-02-09
A FEW DOsEs FOR AGArHv AVN


leading statements in his conmunica-
tion in last Fridays WoRLD that call
for correction. The summer service
on the Idaho City and Banner route |
- the same a. it was when the pres |
ent contractors entered into the con- |
tract, but for winter, from Dec. 1st to |
June 1st, once week, where before |
1t was three times, but the contract
ors, without extra pay, now carry |
twice week. The change from the
service Of six times week il not to |
BE- permanent, and WAS not asked to !
be. The contractors bid for and re-
ceived contract for three times q |
week the year round. The depart
mont raised the service. beginning on
the FIRST day Of last July, to six times
: week. This is what ruined them
financially. If the service had not
been increased they could have kept
right ahead on schedule time, and
even ~ it has been they have done
exceedingly well, and come nearer
making schedule time than contract.
ors on big majority of routes over
which the mails are carried by rich
companies with fat contracts. Rich
contractors on snowshoe routes re-
fuse to carry anything but paper
and letter mail and get away with it.
Not so with the poor contractor.
Merchandise in four poand packages
is hsaped upon him, and not infre-
quently by those who have some fan
cisd spite to crafty. On the routes
mentioned by "Gath," Rocky Bar,
Silver City, Boise, Warrens, ETC.,
when schedule time il made in stormy
weather it IS tho exception, not the
rule, and if schedule time cannot be
made on routes, the traffic over which
pays tho contractors to run stages
and keep the roads open, what do
you expect On snowshoe routes-im-
possibilities? We cannot give you
credit for sincerity in some of your
statements without basing it on an
assumption of total ignorance on your
part of this and other routes men,
toned. Tho Banner is not com
paratively easy road to keep open
1t has been tried many winters, but
all the attempts have ended in failure
Snow frequently falls ten feet and
over on the divide, and with drifts
and snowslides it is all but an easy
route. With the pay five times wha
it is now schedule time could not al
ways be made for the simple reason
that it would be impossible. 1t ha
been so on all the routes you have
mentioned and the true statements o
facts are almost invariably made t.
the department by the postmasters
A few years ago we were between
two and three weeks getting mai
/, from Boise and no complaint wa
made by the people here until it wa
seeu that no effort whatever was be
= ing made by the stage company t
get the mails through. Where wa
"Gathn then and the other complain
= ers he mentions? Many of them wer
u here then, including "Gath," but h
pen was not employed then to POT
a out complaints. If poor contractt
r had been endeavoring, with all h
might, to get the mails over thu
route. on a raise of service land tt
g contractors on the Banner roui
l. would have done far better than tt
stage company did, "Gath" woul
,. without the least doubt, have waltze
t. to the front to score them and exhit
u his high grade qualities as a fearie
,e public benefsctor. This rsasona b
"Gath," We would infer from his la
guags, expects contractors VINO o
ID on and receive contracts for thr
ID times a week to keep right ahead
st ter the raise, which has resulted
'e heavy loss, without protest, and n
IN only accomplish impossibilitles' b
keep the road open. Keep the 70
IL omen for whom and for what reaso
ID For YOU and other unreasonable klc
h. ers. who would kick man becau
u YOU think he is downtown as
W suit of raise of service, and m
who will dc this will be fawning a
i'll meek as lamb before the power
te wealth. 1t is suspected that 1t is
w fawning before rich company Il
an expsct, the road to be kept open
lrt it. especial benefit, that has been
inspiration OF your wall. Contra
!. ors do not contract to keep ro'
"a open for rich companies, but to &c
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