The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-02-18
APPROVED BOTH ROUTES
They Will be in Operation Within
Sixty or Ninety Days--Some Facts.

E. c. Clement, special postal
agent and inspector has approved
free rural delivery routes number
ed two and three, at Corvallis. and
it is expected that both will be in
operation in sixty or ninety days.
In company with Postmaster John
son, he made a careful examination
of both routes last Thursday and
Friday Each was found to be feas-
ible. though in the case of each a
section of the territory proposed to
be served had to be eliminated on
account of the condition of portions
of the roads. On route number
two, service to the P. A. Kline
school house had to be given up on
account of stretch of road west of
town, made notorious by the fact
that Mr.. Kline with four mules and
an empty wagon, stuck in mud hole
there last year. On route number
three, similar section of territory
that it was originally proposed to
serve, had to be cut out for simil-
ar reasons, the road in the latter
instance being described by Mr..
Clement as worse even than the
Kline highway. 1t is the stretch
of road between Gates corner and
Inava1e.
Route number two will be as fol.
lows: West from Corvallis to
Plymouth, north to Hughes corn
er, west and south to Fern, thence
to Beaver Creek school house and
possibly as far as Gates corner,
thence back to Fern, east to Boeh-
ringers, thence back to the Hughes
corner, south and east to the state
road and north to Corvallis.
Route number three leaves Cor
wallis and goes east to Croft's corn
er, thence south to Ca1dwell's and
back to Corvallis via the Radir
road. Then it goes west to Wood
cocks corner and to the Catholic
graveyard, past Slater's to the c..
G. Davis place, thence back via
the Catholic cemetery to the AID
rich place, thence south to the Oak
Greek road. serving persons on var
;ous by-roads in the vicinity,
Mr.. Clement talked in the TIMES
Office with reference to the pro-
posed new routes. The depart
ment, he said, encounters much
trouble on the new routes with the
patrons. The latter petition for
the route, and then when it is es-
tab1ished fail to promptly take ad-.
vantage of the service. They do
not put up boxes, but for some
reason or other, some of them con-
tinue for an indefinite period to get
their mail at the postohce. This
is especially true in Western Ore
gon, and to certain extent is
initiating against prompt /estab-
Hshment of routes petitioned for.
Furthermore, it is likely, if con-
tinued, to result in abandonment of
routes that may be established.
A report of the business on each
route is regularly made to the de- |
partment. If in the course of a
few months it does not reach the
promised in the be-
ginning. it is promptly discontin- |
ued. For these reasons Mr.. Glenn
ent suggests that all patrons put |
their boxes up promptly, and be-
gin use of the service just as soon
as the routes are put in oper alton.
Mail boxes for free rural delivery
are not supplied by the department.
Each patron must provide his own
box. There are various factories
IN the country where boxes are
made. They eof regulation size,
and the department enforces GER
tain requirements concerning their
durability as measure of safety.
To rob box, properly locked, is
IS much an ofense against the law
IS to rob a postof6ce, and the same
penalties are provided. It is on
his account that there is a regula-
ion with reference to how boxes
shall be made.
Boxes cost from IS cents to $3.50
Zach. Those mostly used cost
about S. and are perfectly safe and
lurab1e. It is probable that they
oan be secured of local hardware
1ea1ers when wanted.