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Show I'oslal Route Cuaned. Heretofore the setUements in and hear Snake River, in Wngham MJUhty, Idaho, have been supplied vitiinmlloier a route which has had IU bead a' I"ay;e Hot;. Hut tuucli of Uie time the service has Iwen execrable. For periods as long as three weeks no mall at all has been carried over the route, and dfriug A great part of tlie time there has bevn little prciehledf regularity Ub'trthe contract with the go v-irnmcut.whieh v-irnmcut.whieh will exjure with Uie present mouth, the sen ice is required re-quired to be tri-weikly; iMit for months It has not averaged more than weekly. J"ur (PI- delinquency there 'rs tuo causes. One is the tlsureatwhith thecoutractwas Uken, '.hichlsso low tlat It will not nearly remuneratethecontractor for imttlug on a suillclent uuiulwr ol men and ttams to do the work: the other is the natural obstacles on the route. In (he A-ason of high water, a number ot branches of Snake river, which are dry in the Oil, nil up, aud prf Pca'-ly as deep aud wide as tlie main chanutl. These hale to be crou! in lats if at all, aud tin re are no regular ferries on them. Sometimes in w inter when ice Jim occur in the rlier, tiie water suddenly sud-denly Ulls these channel.-, making it dangerous or impossible to cros-s Litem. Hie folly of baling a mail route run from Laglc Hock lo embrace all the towns ou the present one, on bcth sides orSinfce river, has olteu own stated to the dtjnrtinent, but July recently hive teps been tnkeu to correct it. We are Informed that troiii and after the first of July the nail route for the settlements on the north si,t. of Snake river will head it Market I ake. and the expectation s that an .ther rout-t) the town-on he otiiei side of the mcrwillbc stiblishe.1, hKidiug at lisle Hock, riiis will make It practicable to lunnsu a prompt ami regunr m in service to all the toinU couceruid. The service from Markit Lake to Ilexburgls to liedaih. ami we understand un-derstand that bills fur carrjlng it were lobe ojiene-1 at Market Lake last Friday. |