Year: 1877

Of Southern Dakota, and it Is not going too tar in
explanation Of the outrage to say that Is PerPe-
fin. nee of these corporations has been arrayed
against us from the beginning.


This Is . subject which We hope me1 Of infu-
ence will giveimmediate attention. The mail SER
vice must be secured or our Black Hills trade be-
comes = thing Of the past.


For stating thessame fact or informa
ton which we knew to be reliable, the
Yankton Herald fired volley Of news
paper hot-shot at the bowels of the TRI-
BuNE man and a charge Of. grape and can
lister intended to scatter all over Northern
Dakota and to carry destruction to friend
and foe alike.


The Press anG Dakotian intimates that
the officers Of the government have acted
in this instance from unworthy motives,
but the fact is the department gathered
information from every source possible
and finally sent special agent over each
Of the routes on which proposals. for SER
vice were invited, and on their report the
governm ent finally acted.


1t, probably, was found that the two
Pacific routes gave the country at large
all Of the mail facilities required or de-
sired and in shsrter time than it would
be possible to make on the Fort Pierre
route, leaving only Yankton and Sioux
City and vicinity directly interested in
that route, and, it was probably found,
that these points could be supplied by
one of the other routes better than by their
own, and that the only interest to be
served by mail service from Pierre was
the business interests Of these two points,
and the question undoubtedly arose as to
whether the government would be JUST.
fed in spending large sum of money for
this purpose without in the least increas-
ing the efficiency of the mail service.


It would seem that Yankton men over
estimated the advantages Of their
route as they now confess that the con-
tractor carrying the mails was taken at
ruinously low rates, while in the spring
delays were caused by high water and bad
roads, and in winter, (and we state it
without fear of contradiction,) it will be
as difficult to reach Fort Pierre from
Yankton as it will be TO reach Deadwood
from Bismarck, Cheyenne or Sydney and
will require full as much tune, and no
stage outfit will or can be put on from
Pierre to the Hills which will compete in
the matter of comfort or time with stages
now running between Bismarck and the
Hills. The Pierre route gan never be-
come popular passenger or express line.
Communication by river will always be
uncertain and unsatisfactory, for those
who care for time, and with the best
steamers that can be manufactured, max
ing the best time possible, this will con.
tinue to be the case.


The Pierre route is popular one
among those of little means who do not
regard time, for it is a cheap route, and it
presents many advantages worthy to be
considered by shippers, but the heavy
shippers, who take account Of time, are
rapidly transferring their business to 9TH
er lines.


This is not because Of hostility to Yank-
ton or Southern Dakota but as promi-
nent river man, when contemplating the
rapid strides made by Bismarck this sea-
son, yesterday said, 'fYankton is in the
wrong place"


| The Yankton Press and Dakotian has
taken very honorable course and has
given the news, even though it was ad-
verse to its locality, but the Herald has
done its own town all the injury possible
by abusing and :misrepresenting the gov
ernor and others who have done most
for Yankton and therefore its abuse Of
the TRIBUNE for stating now admitted
fact, did not surprise us. p