The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-03-27
FOR BETTER MAIL SERVICE
Manager Sexton ofthe Local Rail.
way Answers Recently Sub
mitted Petition Of Eu-
reka People

l have at hand your petition dated
March Is in the following words,
to-wit:
1--WE, the undersigned petitioners, are
very DESTROYS of securing in some way a
better mail service into Eureka. We
believe the contract for hauling the
mail should be awarded to the railway,
thus securing us a more efficient mail
service aud incidentally a better train
service. which is q very important
matter.
I'VE expect a large volume Of travel
On the Lincoln Highway this Summer
and under the present conditions il will
be impossible to properly serve the pub
lie. which will be a loss to our town.
I'VE petition you in the nature of an
inquiry for the purpose of ascertainine
whether you could possibly further as
SYST us in this matter. A better mail
service and incidentally a better train
service would certainly be highly APP
preciated."
This appeal for a suggestion in the
premises is one that to my mind mer-
its consideration. and whether the
Post Office Department will be will
ing to be as liberal with you as | am,
will determine the question.
| am willing to carry the mail be-
tween Palisade and Eureka three
times per week for the sum of S1795.
per annum, with the understanding
that the Post Office Department pro-
vide for carrying the same between
the railway station at Eureka and
the post office in said town, which ]
have this day ascertained will be done
for not exceeding $500 per annum,
with the proviso that the Department
will continue to pay the Star Route
carrier now engaged on the route
the sun of $4,000 per annum, making
a total output to the United States
of $685., as against S6612, that the
Department is now paying to carrier
on route 7514S-$597O, and railway
175023-S648, or in last that will not
be done | will agree to carry the mail
free 3 times per week until Deem
Der Is and pay $40 per month out of
my own pocket toward having it
hauled from our depot to the post
office, provided, however, that the
carrier on Star Route rs. 148 is not
disturbed.
1t probably is well understood that
business at Eureka does not justify
the operating of more than n train
per week. but | am willing to help
you out and continue carrying the
mail beyond December Is twice week
ly free, but the minute any attempt
would be made to cut the carrier on
the Star Route. now operating under
contract, | would operate but one
train.
The Department. unless it agrees
to either of the propositions, will
find themselves out more than an
other $1,000, as | am, or will likely
in a few days, begin the third trip
carrying mail to Blackburn, where a
Star Route carrier recently was
awarded a contract to carry the mail
tri-weekly between Blackburn and
Buckhorn, and l will get $642 per
annum on route IT'S, 023. On signing
up last year | only agreed to carry
the mail to June 80. 1915, and if /
quit then it will cost at least $l642 to.
have a wagon haul the mail that 80
miles.
| hope that you will appreciate
that | have herein tried to accomo-
date you to the very best of my abil-
ity in the premises, and you are at
liberty to use this letter as official
through your United States Senator
to ascertain whether or not the prom
Use of Mr.. B~urleson made for politi-
cal purposes in a long message at
Government expense to j. B. Reba-
leati, Eureka, on November 2, was
not buncombe.
If the Government has money to
waste, it is certainly a fact that you
should not be punished along with
the waste, and | trust that | have
settled this matter for the purpose
contained in the petition. for which
| thank you.
Yours very truly,
j. E. SEXTON.
P. S. Unless one of the two propo-
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