Daily Los Angeles Herald

Los Angeles Herald.

Land Office on Wheels.

Counelly's team starts to Bodie with the Land Office, books, records and furniture, next Tuesday. Receiver May will be compelled to go to Bodie also, and may have to stay there until his successor is appointed and qualified. And now, henceforth the people of the entire district, except those in the immediate vicinity of Bodie, can have the pleasure of traveling anywhere from 50 to 350 miles, and a chance to climb to the highest town in North America, when they have any business to transact at Mr. Briggs' private U. S. Land Office. How all such will rise up and bless Secretary Schurz' method of civil service reform as demonstrated in this dirty piece of business! There are some parties down near the Colorado river, who think some of getting a patent on a mine they are looking for, and, to save expenses, and in the 'interest of the public service,' propose to get Father Briggs and Bill Stewart and that gang interested, and move the land office down there just as soon as the patent is completed on the other Bodie mine as proposed. No doubt, in that event but the whole Pacific Coast delegation will join in a letter to the President endorsing the plan, if urged by the aforesaid—after 'this other' Bodie mine is patented, of course.—Inyo Independent.