The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1917-05-26
Unsatisfactory RAILWAY AND
LOCAL POSTAL CONDITIONS
Differences Between Railway and
Postal Department Causing
Unsettled Business Conditions
And An Extremely Poor Local
Mail Service

The SENTINEL cannot learn that
there are any ley developments re-
garding the local railway situation.
A train came up from Palisade Tues
day and returned Wednesday. An
other train came up yesterday and
/; returned this morning. Both trains
carried passengers. mail, express and
freight. Freight from outside Ne
vada points comes through to Eu-
reka, and ores from Eureka to the
shelters in Utah are being received
here for shipment. But nothing
definite regarding a regular and per-
manent service has been given out
officially, and the present unsettled
state of our transportation service is
working a hardship on all lines of
business in this section.
1t is of course generally known
that the differences between the rail-
way company and the Government
over carrying the mail between Pail
SADIE and Eureka is the real cause for
the many inconvenience and trouble
which the people of this section have
to put up with just now. The Gov
eminent says the railway company
must carry the mail whenever it runs
its trains, and it is doing so; but its
schedule is such that it is forcing the
Postal Department to also continue
its service by stage in order that the
mails be brought into Eureka three
times weekly.
In the face of this increased ex-
pense and the trouble the Postal De-
partment is having to contend with
in its fight for a better service for
the people of this section. what kind
of service is it getting from its own
employees at this end of the line?
Besides the Postmaster. the Postal
Department furnishes an assistant
at the Office in Eureka. Yesterdays
train reached the depot in Eureka at
5 p. m. The Postal Department to
expedite its service employs another
carrier to haul this mail from the
depot to the post Office in Eureka. a
distance of about one mile. This
mail was delivered at the post office
in Eureka yesterday at 5:15 p. m.
What was the result?
The letter mail was distributed
into the boxes, and the general de-
livery window was opened for about
Is minutes. Not one newspaper
was given out or distributed into the
private boxes last evening, and the
people who received their mail
through the general delivery were
not able to obtain their newspapers
until after 9 o'clock this morning,
about 16 hours after the mail was re-
ceived at the post Office in Eureka.
There we're many murmurings Of
disapproval around town last night
when it was learned that no news
papers would be distributed, for
nearly every one believed that with
the Postal Department forcing the
mail into Eureka by train and de-
livering it for distribution a little
after 5 p. m. it. would surely be dis
tributed. But there was nothing
doing. ~ ~ iaso III abss1 yaz3sM
The Postal Department prides it
self on it's just and rapid service to
all. and it is hard to believe that it
will approve of the kind now being
given the people of Eureka.
When the present hours for keep
ing the Office open we're set by the
department. the mail was being de-
livered regularly about 10 a. m. on
mail days. The inspector so report
ed, and the department in its posted
notice said that it believed the pub
lie could be served by keeping the
general delivery open until 6 o'clock,
under present existing conditions.
Those conditions have now under
gone a considerable change. and the
hours should be changed according
ly. No one expects or wants any
one to work overtime. but with an
office force Of two people, whom the