Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-03-07
Remote Postofiices.

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raj districts are slow in arriving have lit
tie comprehension of the difficulties and
dangers attending the mail service in the
remoter parts OF the country said a
postofiice inspector to a Boston Tran
script correspondent. Accustomed To
/ express trains and Geographic communi-
! cation. We hardly realize that even now
| q great majority Of postoffices in the
| United States are ont Of the reach of the
railroads. They are served by the stage
coach. by the horse carrier, and even by
| footmen, who penetrate to Businesses Of
! forest and mountain, where a horse could
not with safety be driven. In winter W.
have many runners, who travel by snow
shoes, and others with dogsleds. like
Alaska. with its twenty-five postotfices is
but little less accessible than certain re-
gions along the Atlantic coast.
LAS an inspector | was once sent to
Lees Ferry. in Coconino county, Arizona,
point on the Colorado river. Receiving
the order in Utah | travelled the maj!
stage early on a cold day III March for
kanab The ride occupied three days.
and then having covered two hundre |
and five miles. We stopped At 4 ranch.
chilled and worn out. Thence TO the ferry
was ninety-three miles; but We rested a
day before finishing the trip. The lone
someness and drsarineSs OF the journey
cannot be described. Had De Foe made
the same journey. | am sure he would
have selected Juan Fernandez as the type
of place of exile. For many miles We
traVerSed section Of the American dcS-
ert, upon which there is little water ANA
Scant vegetation. II was in this region
that Engineer Stanton ana his party Of
n,,,+s hsi,,, ~ ~
voyage down the Colorado The solitude
% tit 5oufle! i Hstlu ~ nav ulipdlahced
my minus 81 suit III tlS pa ~; ,
reached. there We're hardly a dozen resi-
E zen IL cosis me GOV eminent HldhE Iot,
ldrS Tor every letter ana newspaper thal
crosses that route 10 Lee :. But the peo-
PIE there are Americans ana they must
nave postal laclItles' ana shouId an OBJ
structlon occur upon that lSoiated route.
an agent q the government would lhVe'',
! tlSate IL with the same alacTltN observed
! J. trouble occurred IN the Guy ot New
OK.
| TN many parts Of Wisconsin ana Mich
igan. when thu roads are blocked with
snow the mails 70 on with their rslta
regularity BY snowshoc ana dog-sIed car
riers Such means Of transportation are
posed Many of the Indian carriers cover
fiftv miles a day' ana their work is not
half so arduous as that of the mountain
carriers in the east ana southeast whcrc
in the spring the roads are nearly i'm
passable' in the swami ana turnantine
regions of the sourh Atlantic states are
many Inaccessible postoffices They main
shippers of the South ana their con-
signees. Sans Souci, \. q, is d fair type
Of them. it is reached Via Norfolk ,
r.l -fn II.
Plymouth. from which place runs a littie
propeller IN the CaShir river stonninr
with the mail at numerous lumber ca INNS
The Cashie is very deem black. narrow
and crooked. II turns in ali points of
The conDaSe hefore euterinp rho Poannl;l
Ir is GENERALLY checked with Ioos oS II
was when We nade orr rim We naseed
i've thousand buge nine Iopt in low 70 IN,
mills at I:denton and Ihei,, freonent
hreakiny anort deiayad our hot III n;i
night in lis arrival AZ Vindsor which
WAS Sir Waller Ra1ei,h's tirst homa in
America Aionp TIA eastern cna.t ~.
North Carolina cut off from me main
land is a narrow long strin ~ sand
beach on which there ara d dozen nnst
offices. served Nv a saiIhoot running ri
Mt Hatteras and other minis IN thie
route as we'll as Tho raiIuav sar,;;na
reauIa rity is enfnrced md 80, oynlers'
lion must he ma1e Of ali daIavS
..,Tba noI,ntain roai"n W.. W.,
,,,nia oefar snan;aI 800 % Eest w
fh;aTaS Tbe stato ~ ,, .,,o az Po1td.
nc ramota ana asna";,, ny ma a.
Tho Snrjno uhap Ia rn, - ~ ~ ~
mud and oftan vasbad an+;raf, 80 -
lave ~ rnoI,n, - - ehIis g! dMd;,
ceypT.I trine thrnnah ~, r; "a - nidue T
yrb;ch rapau d;ot; - 'i' ebioii' oie u
from CanIav br;daa ~ I'M ~ Ioute was
throupb tho .iiaoSo,; o. .ie . I'LL" VITA;
Nchn7as and n,, t tta De- 70 [AuuISoh ana
lance was hut W. ~ D LII me pis
ditHn,,,t" 70 'u a Sines niles put we hlu
faarindr ~ Ia, e', ,I hoiseS, their owners
AnriI W. 70 a. i'm u, ny tme journey III
ana n monntnin h,'@at veu MN W. n1lses
The mud a nil aa,aSe an5 ief 81 ~ 80; a.