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Show MAILS FOR. BEARLAICE VALLEV. TKe letter of Bishop Budge, which appear;- in this morning's Herald, directs attention to the matter of mails for Rich county, generally known as Bear Lake Valley. The difficulties which have attended carrying the mails to Bear Lake Valley - during the winter months, have been neither few nor trifling. Packing, the mad cn his back, the carrier has had to toil his way through the canon passes and mountain heights on snow-shoes, for long weary miles, daring the pitiless storms and death from exposure; for travel by means of animals or in vehicles vehi-cles was simply impossible. This was done while the inhabitants of the county were few in number. But now an important change has taken place. The people are becoming numerous. Thrifty settlements have increased, and better mail facilities have 'become a necessity. Yet the people of that thriving county are actually having less mail facilities during the present winter win-ter than they had when the settlements settle-ments were fewer and the population of the county was much less. That every possible facility might be given to travel and the transportation of mails, the authorities of Cache and Rich counties expended a very large amount during the past summer in working a road up the Logan canon to St. Charles. The work was well done, and the road bears the character of being be-ing the best canon road in the west. Vet the deep snows make it impracticable imprac-ticable at this season, and travel from the county has to go to Evanston, on the U. P. R. R., while the mail has to be earned, if carried at a'i. by an impracticable route. General C. C. Rich informs us that the people of Rich county are getting up a petition to the postal uejj-.rrment ac Washington, to have the mail carried car-ried from Evanstou to Soda Springs, taking in the various, settlements in Bear Lake valley. This is the only sensible way to have it carried. There is a good natural road, easy of travel at. all seasons; and it is really the best road for the Montana mails and traffic from the line of the U. P. R. R. By this route Rich county might as well have a daily mail service as a weekly, and it could be carried during the mot severe weather- and in storms that would render service by the present routes extremely haztrdous and utterly impossible, except on snow shoes. We are satisfied that our Delegate, Hon. W, H. Hooper, will do all in his power to haVe the petition favorably considered, consid-ered, for it is one of no little importance impor-tance to those concerned. . . ' .... . |