Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-09-30
Relative 10 the Service The
Raasss N 0coaes County.

Raales m 0conee County.
Proposals will be received at the office
OF the Second Assistant Postmaster
General, Postoffioe Department, until A
p. IN. sf December /, 1908. for carrying
the mails OF tho United States on the
routes aud by the schedules of depart,
ures and arrivals apecifed i'm the State
OF South Carolina, frorn July 1, 1904, to
June 80, 1908. Decisions announced on
be executed and filed in the department
within sixty days after date of accept
ance of bids.
No bid submitted under this adver-
tisement will be considered unless the
bidder shall agree in his bid that in the
event of the service being awarded TO
him he will give his personal supervision
to the performance of the same, or will
reside on or contiguous to the route.
The words on or contiguous to the
route, as used in this section, are to be
construed as meaning within the terri
tory regularly served by a post office on
the route.
A contractor who shall fail to give his
personal supervision to the performance
of his service, or to reside on or con-
tiguous to his route, as agreed, may ex-
pCCb W D0 utClaT6u a. Id1lInR II,
and that the service will be re-let, and
he and his sureties held liable for any
damage that may be suffered thereby.
All persons are cautioned not to allow
their names to be used as bidders unless
they intend to personally perform or su-
pervise tho service. Every bidder is
required to make oath "that the bid is
made in good faith and with the inten-
tiOn to enter into contract to perform
service in case bid shall be accepted" A
person subscribing to such oath, but not
intending to enter into the business of
carrying the mail, either In son or by
an employee, is guilty of Ju and is
subject to the penalt'' yrescrIbed for
such offense.
In addition to carrying tho mails to
the various post offices on the star routes
covered by this advertisement, the car
rier on each route Except whore othor-
wise specifically stately will be also re-
quired to deliver mail into all boxes and
hang small bags or satchels containing
mail on cranes or posts that may be
erected along the route, and to collect
mail from boxes, and to collect the bags
or satchels from the cranes or posts un-
der the following conditions:
Any person living on or near any star
route herein described, and not within
the corporate limits of any town or
within so rods of any post office, who
desires his mail deposited at given
point on the line of the route by the
carrier on said route may provide and
erect suitable box or crane on the road
side, located in such manner as to be
reached as conveniently as practicable
by the carrier without dismounting
from the venicle or horse, and such per-
son shall file with the postmaster at the
post Office to which his mail ia addressed
(Which shall be one of the two post
offices on the route on either side of or
next to the box or crane) a request in
writing for the delivery of his mail to
the carrier on the route for deposit at
the designated point, at the risk of the
addressed. The small bag or satchel
above mentioned, as we'll as the box or
crane, must be provided by the person
for whose use it is intended, without ex-
pense to the department..
1t shall be the duty of the postmaster
at every such post office, upon the writ
ten order from any person living on or
near the star route, to deliver to the
proper mail carrier for that route any
mail matter-placing in tho respective
satchels, whore such are used, the mail
for the persons to whom such satohels
belong - with instructions as to the
proper mail box or crane at which said
mail matter shall be deposited; but reg
istered mail shall not be so delivered
unless expressly requested by the ad-
dressee in his written order. No mail
matter so delivered to a carrier shall be
carried past another post Office on the
route before being deposited into mail
box or hung on crane or post. Tho
mail carriers must be reliable and trust
worthy persons, of good character and
of sufficient intelligence as to properly
handle and deposit the mail along the
routes.
The department does not prescribe
any particular design of box or satchel
to be used for this service, but the per-
son providing either should see that it is
of such character as to afford ample pro-
lection to his mail. The box or crane
should be so located on the roadside
that the carrier can deposit tho mail
without leaving his vehicle or horse,
and yet not where it will obstruct public
travel.
Full information relative to schedules,
distance, and number of trips of each
route, will be found in book of adver-
tisement on file at each post Office.
Mail Routes in Oconee County,
F. l.. Burr, Star Route Inspector, of
Washington, d. c., was in Walhalla last
Friday and furnished the following in
formation as to the routes in Oconee
county:
No. 2O,402. MILESTONE TO Walhalla.
Bond S400 New service.
No. 20, ,422. Seneca to Walhalla. Bond
S70O. Present contract pays $360.50
Box delivery not required.
No. 20,423. Newry to Seneca. Bond
5000. Present contract pays $1G5. .G6
Present sub contract pays $160.
No. 20,4N. Walhalla to Pine Noun
tain. Bond $500. Present contract
pays $627.99.
No 20, ,425. Walhalla to Tamassee
Bond 5000. Present contract pays S2S7.
Bone Bond $1,000. Present contract pays
No. 20,427. Mayucha to Tamassee.
Bond 5000. Present contract pays $43.
No. 2O,42S. Holden to Salem. Bond
5000. Present contract pays $50. Pres
ent sub-contract pays $50.
No. 20,420. Gibson to Salem Bond
5000. Present contract pays $59.50.
No. 20,43o. Newry to Evatt. Bond
5000. Present contract pays $57.06
Present subcontract pays S42.
No. 2O,43l. Clemson College to Cal
houn Railroad Station. Bond $500.
Present contract pays $172.07. Present
sub-contract pays $123.16.
No. 20,432. Clemson College to Cherry
Railroad Station. Bond 5000. Present
contract pays $172.O7. Present sub. con
tract pays $123.16.
No. ,433. Westminster to Townville
Bond 5000. Present contract pays $780,
No. 20,1S6. Westminster to Long
Creek. Bond 5000. Present contract
pays $206.40.
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markable record. 1t has been in use for