Plaskett Mail Carriers Swimming Icy Rivers
The mail went through: Plaskett boys swimming icy rivers with the pack mule rolling in the current.
The Plaskett boys tell of swimming the icy rivers in winter while carrying the mail, and sometimes a pack mule would roll over in the stream. Byron Plasketts schedule was so regular the Melvilles used to set their watches by the time he passed their place on mail day. On the way home the mail man left each mail sack at the owners mail tree and one mule, Old Jack, went ahead and stopped at each tree as he came to it. This never failed to amaze city folk who would not believe a mule could be so well trained.