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A Journal of American Postal History Is Published Six Times a Year with Issues Mailed on Or About the 20Th of February, April, June, August, October and December February - March 2002 Volume 33, Number 1 Whole Number 193 IN THIS ISSUE: Montana Territorial Postmarks Part 5: Jefferson and Judith Basin Counties By Wesley N. Shellen & Francis Dunn ....... 10 LA POSTA: A JOURNAL The Postmasters General of the United States, 1775-1971 OF AMERICAN POSTAL By Daniel Y. Meschter .......... 19 Registration at Philadelphia Part 2 HISTORY By Tom Clarke .......... 27 Postal Markings of North Dakota Territory 33470 Chinook Plaza, Suite 216, Part XVI: Stutsman and Towner Counties Scappoose, OR 97056 By Mike Ellingson .......... 41 Website: www.la-posta.com The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire—Recent Discoveries, Part 3 Publisher: Richard W. Helbock By Randy Stehle .......... 47 Associate Editors: Henry Berthelot Tom Clarke 19th Century Fort-to-Fort Correspondence Rod Crossley Michael Dattolico By Michael Dattolico .......... 51 Martin Margulis Bob Munshower Dennis H. Pack Robert G. Schultz A Boxer Rebellion American Randy Stehle Missionary Letter Advertising Manager: Cathy R. Clark By Albert H. Tetrault .......... 56 COVER: Our cover illustrates a portion of a stereo The Post Offices of Letcher County, optican card published by Underwood & Underwood Kentucky titled “A crude post-office–reorganizing the mail service By Robert M. Rennick .......... 58 after the earthquake/San Francisco, Cal.” The card was discovered recently by Randy Stehle and is discussed in his article in this issue. Hat Rock, Oregon By Victor I. Case .......... 67 La Posta: A Journal of American Postal History is published six times a year with issues mailed on or about the 20th of February, April, June, August, October and December. 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Van Loij La Posta March 2002 3 PUBLISHER'S PAGE An Exciting End to 2001 The big question everyone must answer when faced Cath and I closed out the old year with a good deal with a bushfire is do we stay more excitement and discomfort than we had antici- and fight it to save our home, pated. On Christmas Eve a very hot dry wind began or do we evacuate well in to blow from the west turning our surrounding euca- advance and save what we lypt forests into tinder dry, oil-saturated kindling. Light- consider irreplaceable? In ning strikes from a dry electrical storm the night be- rural New South Wales all fore ignited the bushlands some 25 miles to our north. the firefighters, with only a As we watched in amazement a huge gray plume of few minor exceptions in smoke began to billow skyward somewhere to our some of the larger towns, north up the coastal range. are volunteers. They are The temperatures climbed to well over 35C (95F) that wonderful, giving men and day. Christmas Day was a carbon copy. Suddenly the women who risk their lives without pay to save, in television news was giving round-the-clock coverage order of announced priority, their neighbors lives, prop- to the bushfire emergency that had broken out in the erty and whatever else is in danger. They recommend Blue Mountains some 50 miles inland from Sydney. that residents remain with their property and prepare Conditions in Sydney and elsewhere in New South to fight the fire until asked by the local bushfire bri- Wales were as bad or worse than they were here, gade to evacuate. Cath and I decided that we would and fires started by both natural and manmade causes follow their recommendation, but I must confess that were beginning to pop up in many places. on Saturday I packed up six cartons containing those On Boxing Day, the day after Christmas, fires had sections of my postal history collections I felt I abso- begun burning dangerously close to homes in some of lutely could not bear to see destroyed. This, by the the outer Sydney suburbs. Our local fires continued way, was a really interesting exercise that has since to burn out of control in national park and state forest caused me to question why I am still hanging on to lands to our north. We were plagued by a thick, chok- bits and pieces of postal history that I could bear to ing smoke at night when the winds died down, but see destroyed. Saturday evening we drove down to were otherwise not in danger. the Chatsworth Island General Store. The storekeep- ers and a few neighbors were gathered around a pic- Day after day during the week between Christmas nic table beside the North Arm of the Clarence watch- and New Years the situation got worse. The interna- ing the fire burn through forest lands on a hill just across tional news media picked up the story and we sud- the river. That hill was the next hill to the north of our denly began getting emails from concerned family and hill, and the fire was burning just two to three miles to friends. Thanks, friends, it was reassuring and won- our north.
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