In the course of the improvement of the country and the accumulation of business there seems to be a necessity for increasing the facilities of the mail. The undersigned your Petitioners would therefore respectfully recommend to your consideration the expediency of establishing a mail route from Peru on the Illinois River to Mount Carroll in Carroll County Illinois by the way of [...?] Como & Gennessee Grove; the whole distance being about seventy five miles.

This route would intersect at M^t Carroll the mail route from Chicago to Galena via. Dixon, and likewise several other mail routes which intersect at that place. The route herein recommended is the most direct and Shortest of any other from the Illinois River to Galena. The fact of the Illinois and Michigan Canal terminating at Peru, and Shortly to be put in operation, renders the consumation of the desires of yours Petitioners the more important; and with a hope that it will meet with due consideration we your Petitioners Shall ever pray.