Year: 1872

The Northern delegations are making
an effort in the Legislature to instruct our
Congressional representatives to secure
better mail facilities for the people Of this
and Siskiyou counties. Luttrell's reso-
luton calls for daily mail from Shasta
to Yreka, by way of Trinity Center and
intermediate points. Tinnin's resolution
is for weekly mail from Trinity Center
to Weaverville, by the way of Miners
vile. The reference of both of these
resolutions will be to the Committee on
Federal Relations, of which Committee
Messrs. Luttrell and Tinnin are both
members.


In our opinion it was a mistaken poll
cy which withdrew the mail service from
the old route by Trinity Center, and
transferred it to the Eastern side of the
Sacramento River. In the Summer seas
on, that route may have its advantages,
but at this period of the year there are
certainly none. We are informed, that
since the late storm commenced, the sta
ges have been entirely unable to make
the crossings of the Sacramento and Pit
Rivers, which have to be made on the
route at present travelled. We hear that
the stage runs from Jackson's Ferry, on
the Sacramento, to the Pit River Ferry,
where the mail is piled away, waiting for
a lower stage of water before the crossing
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the Upper Sacramento, and from that
crossing to Yreka is said to be the same.
If our information is correct, and we be-
lieve it to be so, it is state of affairs
which calls loudly for change. Against
the route by Trinity Center there can
be no such objections urged. There are
no large streams but such as can be safely
crossed at all seasons Of the year, and the
only thing against the old route, which
could be urged with any truth, was that
the road over Scott Mountain was some
times blocked with heavy SHOWS. This
objection should have no force, from the
fact that when there are deep SHOWS on
: that portion of the road, the mails can be
easily transferred to sleighs, and the trip
made over the snow belt with scarcely
any delay. The wagon road from Trim
ity Center to Fort Jones will always be
kept in good repair, and readiness for
travel if line Of stages is once more
placed upon it, otherwise it will scarcely
pay the expense necessary to keep it in
order.


The present mail route, after leaving
the Sacramento River twenty miles above
Red Bluff, passes through a sparsely-set-
tied region, where hardly any one re-
ceives any benefit from it. On the old
road, large population would be sup
piled with their mail matter daily who
now receive it but once week, and some
times not that often.


In relation to the weekly route from
this place to Trinity Center, we under
stand that clause was inserted in the
Postal Service Act passed at the last ses-
sion of Congress establishing this route,
and that the Post Office Department had
written to Postmaster Hartmann, asking
Information relative to the length of
route, character of the country, nature of
service required, ETC., prior to advertis-
ing for bids. Mr.. Hartmann answered
the inquiries, since when there has been
nothing further done in the premises.


Both Of the mail routes asked for are
of imperative necessity, and should be
established without delay. AT present
the only communication which Trinity
Center can have with the county seat is
through a weekly mail by the round-a-
bout way of Shasta while the Miners
vile people have no post-office nor mail
facilities whatever. We hope the resolu-
tions of Messrs Luttrell and Tinnin will
pass without delay, that the attention of
our representatives at the Federal Capt.
tai may be sooner called to the subject.