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Show A DAILY MAIL AND A DAILY PAPER. <br><br> Copies? of the petition for a daily mail which the publishers of the Leader [unreadable] to Providence, Millville, Hyrum and Wellsville, have all been returned to this office, and all are signed? by a large number of the citizens of the respective towns in which they were circulated. It is very evident that the people of the above named towns are alive? to the advantages of having a daily mail, and are anxious to secure it. <br><br> A copy of the same petition was left at the cashier's desk in Z.C.M.I. and another has been lying in the LEADER office, awaiting signatures, but neither has been as extensively signed as we could wish. While a daily mail service to the towns above named would be vastly more advantageous to them than to Logan, it would nevertheless be a great convenience to the people of this city, by facilitating business and more correspondence with their neighbor. At all events it is a convenience of sufficient importance to our citizens to be at least worth asking for, and we would be pleased to have as many signatures of our citizens as can be obtained, attached to the petition before it is forwarded to Washington, there to be acted upon by the postal authorities. <br><br> We do not claim to be entirely disinterested in our desire to see a daily mail service established between Logan and the towns named. We would like to have an assurance of sufficient patronage for a daily paper, to guarantee its success, and are confident that this patronage could be secured if the enterprising citizens of the towns named could have daily communication by mail? with this city, as, in that case, many of them would subscribe for a daily paper if there was one published in Logan. <br><br> There is no question but that a live? daily newspaper would be a great advantage to this city and county. Besides conveying the news of the world to the ??? of our citizens every day, it would disseminate intelligence of local affairs as soon as they had transpired, would furnish business men a medium for advertising their goods in a manner that would insure the annual sale of thousands of dollars worth more than would be sold without such advertising, and in a thousand ways, direct and indirect, would a daily newspaper be of benefit to this city and county. <br><br> Existing circumstances, however, make it impossible for a daily paper, published in this city, to become very profitable to the publishers for a considerable time to come; yet we see no reason why it should not receive sufficient support from the commence?-continuance until its patronage had so far increased as to render it a profitable enterprise. <br><br> It is the present purpose of the publishers of the LEADER to make a thorough canvass of Logan and the county after harvest, and if sufficient support is offered to insure a fair degree of success for the venture, they will commence immediately, the publication of a daily paper, and a daily mail from Logan to the other towns in the south end of the valley would go far to make the enterprise successful. |