The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-03-25
PETITION PRESENTED
FOR NEW MAIL ROUTE
New Route Would Serve f75 Fam;-
lies and Give Monument Direct
Service From Heppner--141
Names ON Petition.

The petition to the Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster General, asking for
the re-establishing of the mail route
between Hardman and Monument,
by the way of Rock Creek, Haystack,
Kimberly and other villages, has
been signed by 141 residents within
the district making the request, and
the petition is by this time in the
hands of the postofiice officials, await
ing their action. Along with the
petition. was sent letter by Hepp
ner Commercial Club to Hon. N. j.
Sinnott of the Second Oregon Dis
trict, asking him to use his power
and influence in getting the mail
route re-established.
Agitation for the continuance of
the Hardman route, was started
resides near Spray, and he succeeded
in getting the cooperation of the
Heppner Commercial Club. Mr..
Carsner says that ITS families will
be benefited by the service from the
proposed route. Many of these fam
lilies are at the present time cut off
from the outside world so far as mail
communication is concerned, and as
consequence, business is greatly
hampered and Inconvenience and
hardship endured by those residing
within the district Of the proposed
route
The petition presented to the post
office department is as follows:
To the Hon. Fourth Assistant Post
master General, Division of Rural
Mail, Washington, D. c.:
We, the undersigned citizens Of
the State of Oregon, residing within
the district hereinafter mentioned
respectfully submit to your Honor,
that we have been heretofore great
ly benefited by mail routes extend
ing from Hardman, in Morrow Coun-
ty Oregon, to Monument, in Grant
County, Oregon, distance of thirty
five miles, and from Hardman, in
Morrow County, Oregon, to Spray,
Wheeler County, Oregon, distance
of thirty-hve miles, an aggregate
distance of seventy miles of mail
route; that the above mentioned mail
routes connected at Hardman with
the mail route from Heppner, Oregon
and accommodated the citizens of the
villages of Haystack, Big Basin,
Long Creek and Monument, fertile
communities. we'll populated and in a
stage of rapid development.
That said mail routes have been
discontinued, and therefore the mail
accommodations in order to reach
Monument necessarily travels by way
of Baker City, then up the Sumpter
Valley to Prairie City, then by stage
distance of fourteen miles to Can
yon City, and from Canyon City, by
Monument. The mail therefore, ,neces-
sarily travels. distance of three
hundred and eighteen miles by rail
road, and a distance of sixty-eight
miles by stage to reach Monument,
a distance Of fifty miles from Hard
man. which is the end of the present
mail route from Heppner, Oregon.
With the discontinuance of said
mail routes the development of the
country along said mail routes is de-
tered and business greatly hamper
ed, inconvenience and hardship plac-
ed upon the citizens of the State of
Oregon, and especially upon the citi-
zens residing within the district of
said mail routes.
Therefore, for the welfare of the
citizens of the State of Oregon, and
especially for the citizens residing
within the district of said mail
routes, we earnestly request from
your Honor that you use your val
liable influence to re-establish mail
route from Hardman, Oregon, to
Monument, Oregon, by way Of Rock
Creek, Haystack, Kimberly, and
other villages, which is a distance OF
fifty miles and such mail route will
accommodate :. families, who are
now wholly without adequate mai
service.