The Arizona Miner
Prescott, Arizona Territory
August 28th, 1869
Complaint About Postal Matters.
J . Hodnett of Company I ,
14th U.S. Infantry, writing
from Camp Date Creek r in this County, under date of
August 24th, says: "We are debarred from all intercourse
with the outside world, in this secluded quarter of the
globe , with nothing to change the dreary monotony of
camp life, except the arrival of a weekly mail, an event
which is awaited with breathless anxiety by every man ,
woman and child in camp. Now, when our friends take the
trouble to send us papers, and we, ourselves, sacrifice
some of our pay (which is earned at the momentary risk
of our lives) ,
in subscribing for them, it is rather
provoking to be compelled to say that not one—third of
them ever reach their destination. We have long since
arrived at the conclusion that our papers are purloined
by somebody connected with the mail , on the route from
San Francisco, and, in truth, whoever does so must have
a heart of adamant, for, Heaven knows, our privations
are numerous enough without adding this to the
catalogue. If this should meet the eye of the District
Commander, we earnestly pray he will take some action in
the matter. "
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