Show SALT CITY may 1804 eulor cedette S sir ir the idaho mail is ii not opened between bet een this place and bannock bannack city and I 1 am convinced cw on vinced if you yon will vill see that your papers ore are property properly wrapped in betout covers and addressed virginia city idaho yur your subscribers will have no difficulty in receiving them there the last letter mail that arrived arri vedat at this thia office from vieginia Vi iginia was completely broken up lip and the letters were scattered and nixed mixed up lip with nith the papers iu in the sack I 1 presume that the aae tough lough handling over a route of that distance is likely enough elou h to work off or destroy entirely the thin covers that wrap your papers the attention of this office has been before directed to the subject of mail matters between this city and virginia city idaho but I 1 sec ece nothing more likely to be a solution to the difficulty complained of th than in the above and so conC confident dent am I 1 that mail matter is secure in this territory tha I 1 shall be pleased to pay to any ally person or persons who wh 0 may inay furn furnish sh evidence at any aay time sufficient to convict any person conceded conueL ted auh the mail m ail service mails in this territory territory Terri tor y of tampering with is ith the the position and business qualifications of all the e postmasters at bannack and virginia city idaho are nry such a as should entitle them to confidence I 1 should think every are therefore more likely to be traceable to accident than design d besign please try tr y our suggestion slig and put up lip all 11 your VEDETTE for fer bannack and for virginia in one package enveloped with stout paper aper P and subscribers you abers will hear no more complaints from frog idaho mails leave this office officio every monday morning at 8 respectfully T B II 11 STENHOUSE special mail agon agen ti utah |