Show to the editor of the ne ra lafr siras SIR As I 1 am 6 9 ex extensively t engaged in business and find myself ii flable to communicate wl wi it thoss those who would be my patrons if they could get gel lie chance will yo i permit me I 1 0 ena ire through the news why wo we may inay not have iu in our gr growing 0 wing terri fiory ory tho the follow following I 1 nea NEW NAIL MAIL ROUTES 1 A weekly or 1 y weekly from I 1 G S L city to independence mo I 1 11 2 A weekly or weekly biweekly bi ii from G S L city to san diego diago california I 1 3 A weekly fr fram G S L city to fillmore and cedar city in iron co iii my y 4 A weekly from G S L city to cedar valley 5 A semiweekly semi w weekly ekly or weekly from G S L ci cly Y to willow creek G S L county I 1 I 1 6 A weekly from G S L city to east weber 1 Br bridger ilger and graeb river I 1 j 7 A weekly from G SL ci cay y to grantsville Grants ville in I 1 I 1 thoele tooele county 8 A semiweekly semi weekly from G S L city to youngs ville box eid eldr r co iny if there is any ally good reason why these things should not be done I 1 wish you or some of your correspondents would tell me by so doing vou von will oblige your old friend I 1 A I 1 G S L ca dee dec 17 1852 I 1 J I 1 we are decidedly tho the friend of improvement and cheerfully give place in our ahe suggestions of our friend manufacturer how far the er is I 1 conversant wi h b the existing mail routes and fact facci ties of the territory he has not seen fiti fialo to state but his hia brif bruf communication leaves room for a few sug gs gsa ions which we shall take the the alb liberty arty to mitko make according lo 10 0 o his numbers I 1 1 A monthly mail now exists to independence but cannot move during the snowy season the time being so long from passage to passage to and fro that all traces of former tracks ofen afen become lost lest and by the loss of the he track the arrival arrivi il and departure of the mail is often lost while a weekly I 1 track amigh might t manifest itself to the carrier and ensure regular transits transita tran sits 0 of f the mail a thing most desirable as the ro ate is u near thirty days nearer the capitol of the nation than any other I 1 i I 1 I 1 2 A frequent communication I 1 wi wl wih h the western I 1 i coast at san diego would secure I 1 to the territory the news of the world arien all uglier ut ier routes fail ex I 1 perince has proved that no positive reliance I 1 can be placed on tho the sacramento oregon or c I 1 I 1 rout roub 9 for mail conveyance during the snowy season I 1 while experience experienc a has demonstrated to a good de degree gree I 1 of satisfaction that the route from hence 0 io o san di I 1 i go need not be broken at any time of the year and we consider one certain on of more value than three uncertain ones though its transi may be i longer yet all good in their plade place and ut at their seasons the latest ace accounts that we have seen show that a I 1 i monthly mail route from hence to san diego had been I 1 granted by the house but had not passed the senate i and though it was in the general bill and probably did pass ye yet this prolonged time from mail to mail does not answer the wishes and necessities of tho the public I 1 and the sooner the the transit of the mail can be increased 1 from month to week the better belter I 1 for all parties 3 frequent and regular communications beaw between ean great S L city the centre of almost all overland en emigration ii ration to california and fillmore Fill moie tiie the capitol which must soon be the dw centre and sumei visor ot teri 1 rit orial business are a re indi indispensable pen sable aldno less so ill I 1 iron which soon is destined to supply the whole country with our most valuable I 1 in all its various forms forma iron and fills too some IW in les auh of fillmore A weekly mail between adar city and ana this his is not ions iong 1 to be with and soon public convenience will swill demand a daily daila if the monthly san diego is into a weekly the same carriers ati can t take both mailea which will save much extence to io the department settlements ments k now already exist at she short rt d stances smacks about halt hal way between this his and S tit in dego D ego and are continually extending and soon will cover the whole distance and I 1 the inhabitants on the route loule wll not be sati net nei ther ought they to be short of a weekly mill after I 1 the facts can be communicated to congress toe subject is one that requires quires le immediate action bot both 11 t here and at Was washington himton by a little calculation and economy the people can be accommodated and ex pence saved to the government by uniting the san diego and way mails buton buton no account should the t way mails be carried in the same bags with the mails to S sin san in diego Sacra merlo or any other foreign point it I 1 all foreign mails should remain unopened tal th they Y arrive at their destination I 1 4 the mail suggested to cedar valley about 35 5 miles south west of this thi will take in its route ahe Engli english sli and wd and the wool woollen ten factory west of jordan and ani post offices will be wanted at all these places ane and perhaps more I 1 I 1 1 5 all the mills and the general farming and manu fracturing fac turing interests of great salt lake county lie on oil i the south as far as willow creek some 20 miles or J j I 1 more while there is not a post office in the ciuni county ty I 1 I 1 except at this point there are extensive settlements I 1 on great and little cottonwood and at other places place i I 1 but all have to do their postal business at this th s city i lier all these settlements are so directly on 11 ll e I 1 1 route that by the establishment of post offices at thee places where they ahtty are needed the settlements mi liht alit be accommodated we kly by the the he mail now passing from hence to manti we are not fully advised if they art arp offices cannot be e opened too soon at these points arid and then a weekly mail from aiom hence to willow I 1 creek acting conjunctive disjunctively with the manti I 1 imail would give tle willow and intermediate offices a semiweekly semi weekly mail which is much needed if the intermediate settlements are not en roule for manti mail a semiweekly semi weekly with offices required cannot be had baa too soon 6 of the extent of settlements or of weber and green rivers we are not fully advised though it is certain that they are continually increasing arid and that the passage of emigrants 0 over these rivers is annually facilitated I 1 by our citizens 2 and that during 11 the jhb emigrating ir season between this and those points would greatly greally I 1 facilitate the movements of emi emigrating rati ng part parties i es and prove an incalculable benefit to tt he i e public arld and at all i I 1 seasons tend greatly to facilitate the overland mail to i and from dence tive tire post office at 0 has bas recently been su suspended by the department 1 I 1 I 1 from cause unknown to us therefore we are not pre pared to recommend an immediate re establishment I 1 at I 1 hat point I 1 7 them the latest con edming the mail route i from this to the same as those from hence 1 to san diego passed the alie house but not fiot the senate it the route is established G S L city to 0 o too cle clein in all thatis wanting is a continuation of the route Erom om Grants vule conj conjunctively tine ti vely with tooele village vill ge but it if said route has toot been granted ghenther then ther theres eis imperative imperati peed need of an immediate mail from hene elto tor by there or in in abt immediate vicinity tv has been so indof our hardest k fighting baing i with india india n desperadoes who have sought that paint i as one impregnable and are liable to do the same same again on the legit least disaffection while for defence that settlement lias ha to depend upon this city and the heavy stock grazing and lumbering limbering of this place centre in tooele thoele county and frequent communications would greatly facilitate business bendorfs Bensor Ps mill should also be included in the route I 1 8 our correspondent it if aware has hag not stated the fact that a semiweekly semi weekly route has long been in op aeration pe ration between this and brownsville Browns ville all that is van wanting ting to fulfil fulfill his wishes and promote public con I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 vengence veni ence ithe continuation of the route from browns ville rl aville which is now I 1 the ahli most northerly settlement on the h great grand route to Cal california fornia and an important point for a frequent mail lit in your petitions state stale the distance from great salt like city what mail route f any arrives 1 at or oi goes p tat the settlement seti lement that petitions pe it ions if none how close does a route come to the same what whal number num berof of inhabitants are there within three miles of post office or intended post office that petitions for arcile what river f a any aay ay is the settlement 0 oi if on none how far to one I 1 how far to a post office on the north south I 1 east or west nam irig the he post office I 1 in adJi addition lion to the routes mentioned by mahu I 1 fac we would suggest a route be established to i i foi t hall sern mont lity which would be of great I 1 consequence to the settlers there and also 1 1 california migration emigration as thousands of letters lie in fort L iramae and great salt lake city directed direct el toa to I 1 that post fr for emigrants which have to be foi warded to calif onia nia or sent to the he dead letter office alzo alo a branch mail finni lehi lebi to M ville D v creek utah county oner olice per week B by v an act of congress ap approved provet A august must 1848 11 the P anner general was authorized to I 1 establish post offices and appoint deputy postmasters mast ers in california and to make ma maleuch keuch such temporary arrana arrangements rem ants for the trans tran poi spot tation of the M tit in said territory as the public interest might g require also alo al o to employ agents 11 for the establishment of post offices and for the transmission receipt and conveyance of letters in california cal fornia at an annual compensation not exceeding that of the principle clerk 3 in the post office department I 1 I 1 the provisions of this extended to utah and new mexico by the 2nd and section of the act of september 1850 entitle 1 in an act to establish certain post routes be extended to the territories I 1 of utah and new mexico and that fue brie post past mater master gentil gen benr til it ba b atiteo iza I 1 to e establish aich ich rates of postage I 1 in in said territories as to him may seem proper riot not exceeding thoe iced in said act by an act of 3rd ard of march 1851 the postage 11 in ui biah oh and new mexico caire can e under the s sime i me provision as the E stern stae see kiei sc 3 arid and sec 2 I laws L aws and 11 regulations gu lations for the government of the post office department i mail agents have been appointed in 0 egon and calfo Cil fo nia and post offices and poa i established in all parts part s of the above nam d places while utah cannot get a single buce without witti out fi fai st t petitioning in the post mt master s ter general which consumes 4 or 6 I 1 months and then receives a cir circular culat with a dumser of quent questions ions to answer which consumes the he remainder of I 1 the year we understand that the post master akister in this city wrote to the department calling their attention to the same about 18 months ago also our delegate in congress has frequently named the case to the post past master general but without avail i wily is it that our catiz citizens ns are totally neglected acte L ain in their postal matters while Y younger oi unter territories and states have millions squandered ered on them the post master in this city has kept an office I 1 open paid a clerk a 1000 per par year to attend it at a I 1 1000 ren rent expended in wood candles ac ac near 1000 more and received in return about 30 per quarter or per year and although he be has petitioned the pst office department D for relief they can do nothing for him with the relief law above aboe quoted staring them theca in the fice bee why does not out our delegate e in congress urge thia thama ter and with ine post office laws in liand demand our rights as citi citizens zeng and accor according dim to the act of congress let him show them the 3 ard 3rd d section on oil page 6 with wilh the comments on the same and see what answer they can male make there are but I 1 11 I 1 post offices in the whole te with a population of above and not even a mall mail route to the seat of government fillmore city is I 1 I 1 there not some fun fan in living livieri in this world jut ju t to see how men inen in brief authority can act with these brif T strict tires ires on our friends eions aud and the accompanying agg s ggs st lions ions we becom I 1 mend ille whole subject to the legislature now in ses r siou ion and tiff all friends of social thought to be up and d doing i C ruit rail roads and lightning engines are extending from soa sea to sea and through the seas to enlighten all christendom in the arts and sciences in commerce 1 and manufactures except deseret the most indus I 1 arious and thrifty bee hive of all aud and shall we WB sit down in dumb si silence lenca and hear nothing from the rest of creation croat iou fora for u month A month yes six months if a few snow drops appear on the mountains that a mule cant pas s without a norway snow sled no nc legislators of U utah tab arise in your place and in your majesty and peti ion congress for such mail routes post offices and oher ober things as your constituents need such as they cannot do without wi hout hindering their internal improvements improve mens their domes ic mani 1 which are th the only s aple commodity of wealth and which should bethe be the pride and glory of the nation the whole nation california gold not excepted let the inhabitants of distant iii stant se seA tl lemens emens who have hitherto remains 0 4 ignorant gnor ant of their I 1 privileges arise in i their place as free born ci eizens and petition congress to grant them these things which they need to conj them neighbors in post offices and post pos roads I 1 t till ill cedar city can talk with grantsville Grants ville as does new I 1 york with albany and all classes of our community can be accommodated in their interchange of and commodities i i I 1 and where are wo we now in the midst of the rocky moan ains lit the tha valley of the tho graat Griat basin of north america encircled by the back bone aud and ribs of hs hi cou con anent constituting the vitals of the roost glorious government under the canopy of heaven heavens i three mouths months removed from auy any news from the head time enough for all the blood in our heart to curdle cardie before tho the thought of head could reach us if we had not lightning in oar veins than it takes lakes to cir calate intelligence through time through earths circumference cum eum ference and what do we see we see the head of this I 1 great this mighty nation of which we are only an i internal unseen life giving part the congress the I 1 governing and controlling cont roling power dispensing its bles sings by tens and hundreds of thousands on a distant arm or hand that is capable of itself to export its hundreds of millions per annum and which needs no assistance s si stance from the head having resources in abundance of A its own only wanting ing in wisdom from ahe head to manage its immense and hitherto unheard of influx i and preserve it from the sin of drunkenness while at the alie same time the head leaves the heart hear t the vitals 1 i to furnish its own blood which it has no means of i doing only by an 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