Arizona republican., 1900-07-13
PINNEY & ROBINSON,

| all the country west of the Miss1ur
 river. with the exception of the state o- 1 Kansas. Denver was selected as thu most central location from a geographi-
 cal point of view. ir 9 region which
 comprises within it's limits nearly one half of the United States.
 The western division. as at present
 constituted, is divided into five dis
 tricts.
 ''1-North and South Dakota and
 Montana.
 ! '2-Nebraska, Colorado and Wyom- 1 ing.
 "8-Utah. Idaho. Washington and i Oregon.
 i "4-Nevada, California. Arizona and New Mexico.
 "5-Oklahoma Indian Territory. Ar 1 kansas and Texas.
 While agents are primarily detailed to each of these districts. no special agent is permanently located in any ! designated district. Each agent is sent to different states as cases accum- ulate. At present Special Agent l.. \. Thompson. editor of the Weld County Republican. at Greeley, is reporting upon eases in Colorado; Special Agent c. E. L!ewellyn is working in Neb- ras.=a,. but any one of the agents is subject to call at any moment and in any state where his services are re- quired.
 Since the 18th of May. when the diff ferent agents began work, nineteen cases have been forwarded to the de partment from Colorado, and ten have been completed. Fifteen cases have been forwarded to Washington from Nebraska. ten from South Dakota. five from Texas, six from Oregon. tnd three from Utah. Twelve have been sent in from California
 "The western division has been short handed until the beginning of the pres ent fiscal year. when additional agents have been ordered to it, the last of whom is Captain Harry A. Clarke If Cheyenne. who commanded the Wyom- ing battery in Manila during the war in the Philippines.
 Tt is probable that five or six addi- tional agents will he assigned to the western division within the next sixty days.
 The postohice department has an nounced that rural free delivery is % apply to mining camps and mountain canons as well as to the prairies and the plains. and that the benefits of house-to-house delivery in sections dis tant from postofTice facilities are to be afforded to the mountain states as well as to those where level roads and thick ly settled communities obtain
 The result of the service so far is described by the Times as follows:
 Not only has the rural carrier ser vice proved of inestimable convenience tO the inhabitants of those sections where it has been introduced. but it's tendency has been to broaden and cdu- cate the people by relieving the mon otony of farm life and affordiug easy access to wholesome literature and the doings of the day; besides operating to their material advantages in many ways. Statistics show that the value nf farming lands in sections reached by the delivery have increased from $2 to D an acre; that a general improve ment is noticed in the condition of the roads traVeied hy th" rural carriers and that the farmers who receive their man in this way. by being brought into daily touch with prevailing market prices, receive higher values for their farm products. Then. too. with the farmers. as well as with other people. time is money; and time lost in going 10 and from the postonicc'is money lost. In a public discussion of the subject in Pennsylvania, some time ago. it was estimated that the average value of time lost by the farmers not served by rural carriers. in going for their mail, not taking into account the wear and tear of teams, harness and wagons. is