"Quad's odds"; . O THE COLONELS £HE mail routes west of Omaha were butpoorly looked after before the days of thePacific railroad, but the few post-offices werehighly prized by miners and traders, enablingthem to hear from civilization at least onceor twice per year. We had built up quite a little town abouttwenty miles from Denver, and it was decidedto establish a post-office in a saloon and hire some one tobrino- and carry a semi-weekly mail. We made no appli-cation to the government for a post-office, but were goinginto this arrangement merely for our own letters c
"Quad's odds"; . O THE COLONELS £HE mail routes west of Omaha were butpoorly looked after before the days of thePacific railroad, but the few post-offices werehighly prized by miners and traders, enablingthem to hear from civilization at least onceor twice per year. We had built up quite a little town abouttwenty miles from Denver, and it was decidedto establish a post-office in a saloon and hire some one tobrino- and carry a semi-weekly mail. We made no appli-cation to the government for a post-office, but were goinginto this arrangement merely for our own letters coming from the States were addressed to Den-ver, and those we sent from Paradise bore the Denverpost-mark. We made up a list of those who would pay fifty centsweekly, collected the first installment and hired a half-breed to act as mail-carrier. Everything worked all right,and Paradise would have been happy but for a giantminer called Colonel Pick. He was down for fifty centsper week with the rest of us, and when the first mail camein
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