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 and Gennessee Grove the whole distance being about seventy five miles. This route would intersect at Mount Carroll the mail route from Chicago to Galena Via. Dixon and likewise several 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 your Petitioners the more important and with a hope that it will meet with due consideration we shall ever pray