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The River Press
Fort Benton, Chouteau County, Montana
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Montana Territory residents face grievances with mail service due to poorly paid sub-contractors on star routes, exemplified by the tri-weekly route from Chestnut via Fort Shaw to Old Agency, where service is reduced to about once a month, resulting in mail delivery only once every two weeks instead of three times weekly.
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This Territory has numerous grievances in reference to mail service and postal matters generally. The fact that sub-contractors on the star routes are so poorly paid is one source of annoyance—it works a hardship on the sub-contractor and discommodes the people. The star route from Chestnut via Fort Shaw to Old Agency is a case in point.
The Ring receives a handsome sum under the contract and doubtless the route was "expedited" by the amiable Brady, but the sub-contractor receives only $1,200 a year for doing the work, and the service is tri-weekly. One or two men have given up the job as a losing one and the man who now has the under contract gets around about once a month, more or less. As a result the people of Old Agency receive not more than one mail in two weeks, at a liberal estimate, when they should have three a week. This example sets forth some of the real beauties of the star route system as worked by Dorsey, Brady & Co.
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Montana Territory
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sub-contractors receive $1,200 a year; service reduced to about once a month; people of old agency receive mail once every two weeks instead of three times a week
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Grievances in mail service due to poorly paid sub-contractors on star routes; example of route from Chestnut via Fort Shaw to Old Agency where contractors have quit and current service is infrequent