Show the message lessage 1 and the overland mall mail routes we observe that the subject of overland mail routes to the pacific is 13 attracting considerable gid sid erable attention in the east and the butr berfield ter field route is the especial esp ceisl tai theme e e et f hoste annas annals from the press we e hai have e no objection to any of the rival routes on the contrary they deserve all the praise that can be bestowed upon them but then vv e have a right in in this latitude to asli ask and demand especially from the govern ment dent fair play however interested the government nay may be in in the transmission of its mails its hig high gh functions should not be used as an engine of oppression v her individual enterprise is in in competition in the trans transmission missi on of the pre presidents si dents message to california it looks very like lae there was some shenanigan ligan used and that the biu thern routes and particularly the butterfield route was especially favored the contractors on this the salt lake route hockaday co of the eastern division and co of the western went to great trouble a and expense to fix the their respective irrespective luies lines in order for a race with all the other routes whether of ste steam a in mustangs or mules sharing an honest hones pride in the measure we in connection with thi the contractors a deputed a special messenger to st louls louis slid and accredited him to the office athe of he Iris republican r here every facility was offered him and he secured the me message 1 ag as soon as an impression of it was tal taken en upon the form of the republican and tt arted the messenger george merrick lif is one among the very best conductors on the tb elrie aine ind and he put it through in an almost incredible short space of time maor major chorpenning started his messenger Immediate immediately li upon its arrival here and if the there ri had bien been no favoritism used the san I 1 fia fancisco ran acl cisco sc 0 o papers would have had it be our route r out e t of seve seventeen iteen days but the but berfield ter field ponies it appears out jockeyed our a arrangements g amento by making mayfing a false start and B ent off several days I 1 in advance of the tap of the drum dram still afis it is I 1 not vi without Us its good results it A his has demonstrated the fact that the salt take route u is the shortest and can be 1 made the swiftest fest route rosite to the pacific while the other routes carried earned the messa message 9 eth through rough we distanced them altogether on time and vi ni thoat bragging can do it always ahls Thi atme it should be remembered was made in in midwinter mid winter when the storms of the south sout P pass s 9 rocky ridge judge and the rocky mountain kenyons had to be encountered in the rival rival routes across and through the wilderness let us ua have at least an open field I 1 a d a fair fig fight bt |