We the undersigned Citizens of El’ Dorado and vicinity, of the State of Arkansas would humble represent, that this country has been settled up for the last two years with a very inteligent & industrious population, and yet the region of Country from this point to Athens, the County seat of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, is deprived of mail facilities. We therefore cordially join the Citizens of Louisiana, in petitioning you to grant a mail rout to run from El’ Dorado, via Harper’s, Foster’s Store, and James Dyer’s, to Athens L^a a distance of fifty four miles, establishing post-offices at Harpers, Foster’s, & Dyer’s.

We would further represent, that all letters and papers from Nachitoches & Harrisonburg would reach us much sooner, than they do by the present rout, which carries them from Athens to Winden, thence to Washington in Hempstead Co, Ark^s, thence to Camden, thence to Champagnolle and from thence to El’ Dorado, a distance of near two hundred miles, against the fifty four miles by the rout proposed above.

We, your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray & &c