The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1908-02-10
NEWS NOTES FROM HAMILTON
Correspondent Says New Mail Ar
rangement Is Unsatisfactory

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John A. Tam went to Eureka by team
Tuesday on business.
George Halstead, Jr., the blind boy
Of Ourrant Creek, visited the Matson
family a few days last week.
DIR. Pettengill has returned from his
visit to Ely and is now permanently
located at the Wilmington Hotel.
Gus Simon was down from the mines
Sunday for q visit home. He reports
the vein on his mine to be increasing in
size and value.
Messrs. Henderson and Joby were in
town this week Quitting for the pur.
pose of prospecting and boring for coal
in the Pancake range.
o. d. Taylor, who has been spending
a few months in Oakland, CAL. on o
visit. will return here in a few days and
resume work on the Gary MIN
Louis LAM visited the Sunbeam
group Of mines on Treasure Hill this
week and brought down some fine pic
ture rock from the vein recently I'M
covered. 1t is very high grade.
DIR. Wallace and Attorney McElroy
of Ely were in town this week looking
after their mining interests. Mr.. Nc.
Elroy intends establishing a law office
in this camp when Spring opens.
DIR. Cowen and W. Frazer left for Ely
Monday to get more mining supplies
and machinery. They took many sam
pies of ore for assay from the high
grade veins they have just uncovered
on their claims.
Present Mail Service Unsatisfactory
Hamilton feels like kicking, and kick
ing very hard at the present admins
t~ration, so far as the postofice is con
cerned. Last week came the order thai
hereafter we are to have only three
mails a week from Kimberley, and that
the Eureka mail is entirely ~discontin'
ued. What the P~ostoffice Department
means by such a freak move of economy
just at the time when Hamilton is agair
coming to the front with it's mines al
well as with good prospects for oil wells
we do not know.
Some are blaming a Eureka man, and
say he influenced the Department t.
act in this way. II that is true, Eureks
must have a man who is trying to cut
off his own nose to spite his face, fol-
certainly Eureka will suffer most by
this brilliant move Of the Postoffice De
partment. Hence we believe that blam
ing a Eureka man is a SANDER. We have
always done most Of our shopping a
Eureka. All our express came from
hat way, as well as all our freight
Now we will be compelled to get all thi
from Ely, aud Eureka will certainly
suffer from a financial standpoint
Every man in Eureka and Hamilton
should at once enter a protert against
this order, and we should all endeavol
to bring enough influence to bear on thu
Postoffice Department to remedy tn
gross injustice of this move
Why could these mails be kept run
ming during all the hard times of thil
country since 1878, when Hamilton Otter
had no greater population than a few
worn out miners. an old blind horse and
a yaller dog, and now be cut off from
half our mail service when prosperity il
returning and the camp is increasing
daily in population?
1t seems to us that the Postoffice De
partment is misinformed as to what we
are entitled to.
Your reporter now wishes to rest fol-
a while. so he can get his breath tC
commence cussing the Postoffice De
partment once more for cutting us of
from the outside world and Eureka.
We are high up here, and IL Uncle Sam
doesn't watch out we will secede from
him, go one step higher and get under
the jurisdiction of the power who rules
above the clouds. r. A. ID.