A Hundred Years of Rip and Roarin Rough and Ready By Andy Rogers (1952)(Hathitrust) (117 pages)

road. A head board marked the grave for years. Very few people in that vicinity knew the facts of the case, or where the man was buried. CHAPTER NINE STAMPS AND POST OFFICES Thar's heaps of gold in them thar hills Get your pick and pan, and shovel to beat the band, We'll go to town, as soon as gold is found Dance and love to make, And return to make another strike. Yet they used to pan gold here, and now they pan the tourist. Slumbering town Re-establishment of it's Post Office, as evidenced of re-bdirth of Rough and Ready, California, June, 16th, 1948. Post Office Department squints, but Q0.K.'s the name: Rough and Ready. Appointment Geneva M. Rogers, Postmaster. First mail through Rough and Ready by mule back, 1850, established as Post Office July 28th, 1851. Marous Nutting, Postmaster. First mail contract route 5070, Justice G. Fordyce. Discontinued for a while, February ist, 1913. A.M.Blanton was appointed Rough and Ready Postmaster previous to December 10th, 1850. J. Ross Brown came to California in 1849, United States Postal Service. Mule power and foot power making the rounds. Steamer day in San Francisco The little Post Office half-way up the hill, was about hidden from sight by crowds that clustered around it for three or six months mail. Mr. Moore, the new Postmaster, who was a traveler from New York, via vessel, barred every door and window from the moment of his entrance, and with his two sons and a few clerks, worked steadily for two days and two nights, to distribute twenty thousand letters, until completed. Finally, on the last day of October, on the eve of the departure of another steamer down the coast, the Panama came in, bringing the mails for July, August and September, all at once. Thirty-seven mail bags were hauled up to the little Post Office that night. Eight clerks were astounded by the receipt of forty-five thousand letters, besides uncounted bundles of newspapers. This mail sent a thrill to every heart. Two or three ounces of gold was traded for a higher place in the long waited line. San Francisco's long line of emigrants, standing in line at the Village Post Office, nine blocks long. Postmaster Geary and his forces worked overtime, and at nine o'clock pulled down the window as a signal that business was over for the day. John McGlyn, a teamster, averted a riot, by thrusting nis big fist through the glass. Said John, “Keep your line, boys, it's only an Englishman who don't know our ways.* Geary then decided to distribute mail throughout the night. One of the earliest emigrants, John Biddle, took an important role in this early day Post Office lineup. Year 1789, Samuel Osgood was Postmaster General; Year 1799, General Post Office established. Early days a number of express trains daily carried mail in less than six hours, and much less than air (today) from New York to Boston, but in Washington's time, a@ postman carried mail on horseback from New York to Boston, three times a week, in summer, and twice in winter. It required six days to make the trip in summer, and nine in winter. Google 100 A pair of saddle bags sufficed to carry all the mail between these two commercial centers. Postmen carried mail from New York to Philadelphia five tines a week, two days making the journey. While the horse or mule jogged leisurely along, the postman would while his time away and lonely hours, knit~ ting socks and mittens, or read the mail; some places travelling over plank roads. William Van Voorhis arrived in Californie 1849, as the government's Postal Agent. He carried instructions to include and install Post Offices in the towns and camps which seemed important. However, the authorities had the wrong slant of the west coast and mining camps. Tiny mining towns included were,"Brandy HatPoverty You Bet Rough end Ready Jack Ass Gulch Piety Hill Last Chance Nip and Tuck = Two Cent Ranch Poker Hill { Dusty Bar Muggeredquill." ‘ J.A.Voorhis was a 1848 passenger on a steamer, I believe, the California. J.u.Shively, Postmaster at Astoria, Ore. gon, while on a visit to Washington, D.C. in 1845, called the attention to the government to the advisability of mail steamers between Panama and Astoria. Later the same year, President Polk, laid before Congress to increase population of Oregon by emigration via Isthmus. . In the fifties, the Post Office simply required all letters by route to be endorsed via Tehuantepec, Golden Gate "Golden Age,* John L. Stephens and Sonora. Colonel J.W.Clary came via vessel Oregon. and was postmaster in San Francisco, 1849. Approximately one hundred years ago, the United States Post Office Department launched on the steady expansion of its services, which has transformed it into the largest and most useful business enterprises in the world. In these one hundred years, however, . the Department has operated in the red, all . except thirteen years. Usually these exceptions were at times of exceptional conditions, such as World War, when the hugh volume of overseas airmail produced a surplus in fiscal years of 1943, 1944, and 1945. Basically, this deficit stems from the fact that the department has a minimum of control over its costs of operation and what it charges for its service. Then the so-called disadvantage of Frank mail, misused by Senators and Congress, eats into the profit of the Post Office Department. It now employs over 500,000 people, and takes in about $1,250,000,000.00 a year, and the politicals have not been taken out of the department. Over ninety percent of its expenditures are for salaries and transportation. Congress fixes the wage rates, and Interstate Commerce Commission and Civil Aeronautics Board set the transportation rates. Congress also established the postal rates which revenue is derived. General Controller's office at Ashville, North Carolina, did keep the books. In a way, all going in opposite directions. The Hoover Commission reported that operations cost could be cut by over $100,000000.00 a year, if given a revolving fund, and the business type budget of federal enterprises. In 1951, so far, Congress has failed to act on bills carrying out this commendable recommendation. If $100,000,000 a year could be saved to the taxpayers without impairing the efficiency, or curtailing

road. A head board marked the grave for years. Very few people in that vicinity knew the facts of the case, or where the man was buried. CHAPTER NINE STAMPS AND POST OFFICES Thar's heaps of gold in them thar hills Get your pick and pan, and shovel to beat the band, We'll go to town, as soon as gold is found Dance and love to make, And return to make another strike. Yet they used to pan gold here, and now they pan the tourist. Slumbering town Re-establishment of it's Post Office, as evidenced of re-bdirth of Rough and Ready, California, June, 16th, 1948. Post Office Department squints, but Q0.K.'s the name: Rough and Ready. Appointment Geneva M. Rogers, Postmaster. First mail through Rough and Ready by mule back, 1850, established as Post Office July 28th, 1851. Marous Nutting, Postmaster. First mail contract route 5070, Justice G. Fordyce. Discontinued for a while, February ist, 1913. A.M.Blanton was appointed Rough and Ready Postmaster previous to December 10th, 1850. J. Ross Brown came to California in 1849, United States Postal Service. Mule power and foot power making the rounds. Steamer day in San Francisco The little Post Office half-way up the hill, was about hidden from sight by crowds that clustered around it for three or six months mail. Mr. Moore, the new Postmaster, who was a traveler from New York, via vessel, barred every door and window from the moment of his entrance, and with his two sons and a few clerks, worked steadily for two days and two nights, to distribute twenty thousand letters, until completed. Finally, on the last day of October, on the eve of the departure of another steamer down the coast, the Panama came in, bringing the mails for July, August and September, all at once. Thirty-seven mail bags were hauled up to the little Post Office that night. Eight clerks were astounded by the receipt of forty-five thousand letters, besides uncounted bundles of newspapers. This mail sent a thrill to every heart. Two or three ounces of gold was traded for a higher place in the long waited line. San Francisco's long line of emigrants, standing in line at the Village Post Office, nine blocks long. Postmaster Geary and his forces worked overtime, and at nine o'clock pulled down the window as a signal that business was over for the day. John McGlyn, a teamster, averted a riot, by thrusting nis big fist through the glass. Said John, “Keep your line, boys, it's only an Englishman who don't know our ways.* Geary then decided to distribute mail throughout the night. One of the earliest emigrants, John Biddle, took an important role in this early day Post Office lineup. Year 1789, Samuel Osgood was Postmaster General; Year 1799, General Post Office established. Early days a number of express trains daily carried mail in less than six hours, and much less than air (today) from New York to Boston, but in Washington's time, a@ postman carried mail on horseback from New York to Boston, three times a week, in

summer, and twice in winter. It required six days to make the trip in summer, and nine in winter. Google 100 A pair of saddle bags sufficed to carry all the mail between these two commercial centers. Postmen carried mail from New York to Philadelphia five tines a week, two days making the journey. While the horse or mule jogged leisurely along, the postman would while his time away and lonely hours, knit~ ting socks and mittens, or read the mail; some places travelling over plank roads. William Van Voorhis arrived in Californie 1849, as the government's Postal Agent. He carried instructions to include and install Post Offices in the towns and camps which seemed important. However, the authorities had the wrong slant of the west coast and mining camps. Tiny mining towns included were,"Brandy HatPoverty You Bet Rough end Ready Jack Ass Gulch Piety Hill Last Chance Nip and Tuck = Two Cent Ranch Poker Hill { Dusty Bar Muggeredquill." ‘ J.A.Voorhis was a 1848 passenger on a steamer, I believe, the California. J.u.Shively, Postmaster at Astoria, Ore. gon, while on a visit to Washington, D.C. in 1845, called the attention to the government to the advisability of mail steamers between Panama and Astoria. Later the same year, President Polk, laid before Congress to increase population of Oregon by emigration via Isthmus. . In the fifties, the Post Office simply required all letters by route to be endorsed via Tehuantepec, Golden Gate "Golden Age,* John L. Stephens and Sonora. Colonel J.W.Clary came via vessel Oregon. and was postmaster in San Francisco, 1849. Approximately one hundred years ago, the United States Post Office Department launched on the steady expansion of its services, which has transformed it into the largest and most useful business enterprises in the world. In these one hundred years, however, . the Department has operated in the red, all . except thirteen years. Usually these exceptions were at times of exceptional conditions, such as World War, when the hugh volume of overseas airmail produced a surplus in fiscal years of 1943, 1944, and 1945. Basically, this deficit stems from the fact that the department has a minimum of control over its costs of operation and what it charges for its service. Then the so-called disadvantage of Frank mail, misused by Senators and Congress, eats into the profit of the Post Office Department. It now employs over 500,000 people, and takes in about $1,250,000,000.00 a year, and the politicals have not been taken out of the department. Over ninety percent of its expenditures are for salaries and transportation. Congress fixes the wage rates, and Interstate Commerce Commission and Civil Aeronautics Board set the transportation rates. Congress also established the postal rates which revenue is derived. General Controller's office at Ashville, North Carolina, did keep the books. In a way, all going in opposite directions. The Hoover Commission reported that operations cost could be cut by over $100,000000.00 a year, if given a revolving fund, and the business type budget of federal enterprises. In 1951, so far, Congress has failed to act on bills carrying out this commendable recommendation. If $100,000,000 a year could be saved to the taxpayers without impairing the efficiency, or curtailing