The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-05
AE!GHT OF INJUSTICE
THE CITIZENS PROTEST
n b Plan Il Carried Out Anaconda
Would Have but. One Ex-
change OF Mail Mat
ter . Day

1t appears that Anaconda Is threat
ened with a proposition that is I'm the
nature OF q calamity. 1t il nothing
more nor less than one exchange Of
mails q day between Butte and Ana
conda. where there are four exchanges
now. A petition has been prepared
and has been signed by all Of the BUSH
ness men Of the city. and will be for
warded to Washington. protesting
against the change.
1t seems that the government a a
contract with the Montana Union Rail-
road company to carry the mails into
Anaconda. When the Montana Union
leased Its lines from Stuart to Ana
ond to the Butte. Anaconda & Pa
cihc. the Montana Union, Of course.
ceased running trains into Anaconda
n ceased carrying the mail here. Up
to this time, however. the Butte, Ana
conda q Pacific has handled the mails
and Anaconda a had a good mail
service. Now. however. the govern
ment seems disinclined to make a new
contract with h Butte. Anaconda &
Pacific and proposes to bring mails In
on the Montana Union only.
II this Is carried out, h consequence
would be that Anaconda would have
but one exchange of mail per day be-
tween Butte and Anaconda: the mail
for the South would. each way, be de-
layed "a hours: and the mails to and
from points on the Great Northern
would likewise be delayed "a hours. II
The nail service on the Butte, Ana
conda X Pacific were discontinued all
mail would be sent over the Northern
Pacific, which u n one train out of and
one train into Anaconda a day. I'm
dor Grrah N o..
for h south would leave Anaconda
at S:15 o'clock p. m. lay over I'm Butte
till the afternoon OF the following day
and then be forwarded. The mail from
the South would arrive in Butte in the
afternoon. lay over in that city till the
following morning and would be for
warded to Anaconda on the train reach
ing Anaconda at 7:55 o'clock in the
morning. causing In each instance a
delay of nearly "a hours. Mail for
points on the Great Northern would be
equally delayed. Notwithstanding the
fact that Anaconda Is the terminus OF
that roads passenger service and the
mail cars hauled over II come to Ana
conda. and depart from this place. the
mall coming over the Great Northern,
for the Anaconda postofice. would h
left In Butte until the Northern Pacific
train should carry It to Anaconda.
Equally so IL would be with mails Ieav-
bhS Hiideoiiod " po'utS vi tnf 1Tedt
Northern n the East. This mail
would leave Anaconda or the Northern
Pacific at S:15 o'clock In the evening,
lay over at Butte until the next even
ing, when II would be transferred to
the Great Northern train. which leaves
Anaconda Is M before the North
ern Pacific does. but still there would
be a delay at Butte Of "a hours.
Leaving the mails for the South and
East aside. under the arrangement that
will go into effect II the petition IL
ignored, the mail service between Butte
and Anaconda will be just this: The
mail from Anaconda will leave Ana
conda at s:15 o'clock in the evening and
the people of Butte viii not be able TO
get IL until next day. Likewise. a let
ter mailed In Butte on the morning Of
one will not reach Anaconda until
1856 o'clock on the morning of the next
day.
present system of mail service can be
perpetuated. Anaconda will be worse
OF. so far as mail service r. concerned.
than the smallest sid track in the
state. One Of the paragraphs in the
petition sets forth that 'it would seem
that the mail service between Butte
n Anaconda shou1 be at least equal
to h passenger train service. and that
the railway postoffce service should be
a upo the transcontinental lines
having their terminus at Anaconda, to
which point the mail cars are brought
and whence they leave: and we con-
tend that II Is not good service to have
the clerks upon these AIRS left and
picked up at Butte"
The petition will he forwarded to the
department at Washington IN n dav or
two. and " cannot be otherwise than
believed that. when the authorities are
made aware Of the gross injustice. the
proposed system will do Anaconda n
will he at once attended TO and
the mail service continued as at pres
ent.