Show X WANSHIP our attention being called to an article in the salt bait lake AdverN advertiser wr of the date of march wherein the writer slops over in his booming description iou of certain towns in summit county and bewails the sad fate of poor old wanship manship Wan ship we will state a few facts in regard the status of that town own in the first place the union pacific railroad by consent of the county court of summit county closed the silver creek road for the of two years thereby putting an almost absolute embargo on the travel over the same then the depot and telegraph service were discontinued about four y years ra ago up to which time the people re of camas peoa geoa etc came to manship wanship for their freight and sup plies those leges being denied them by the railroad management they were forced to go to park city the railroad company have been appealed to asking them to re lish a depot and telegraph service but so far without avail although we offered ered to hear bear ofie one half balf the expense of the operator we have no doubt if they were made aware of the loss sustained by reason of the want of a depot and an operator they would not dot hesitate much longer to give poor old manship wanship a show freight for this place is thrown oft the cars a great deal of damage is done by reason of rough handling the malls which leave salt lake city at am for wanship manship Wan ship peoa geoa camas etc arrived here at ai tiny any time from 2 to 9 pm the mail bags are thrown off while the train is moving at from fifteen to twenty miles au an hour landing in mud and muck for the postmaster to find them the best beat way he can caa instead of delivering them to him at his office the mails for park city from here are very often missed by reason of the carrier being unable to lani them in the car consequently thea ache lay over until the next day we would here speak of the discrimination in regard to lo passenger fares on the U P R B R the fare for round trips from park city to salt bait lake is 4 from wanship manship Wan ship 15 mi les east of there 7 from fr coal ville 8 miles east of wanship manship Wan ship the public can see that a great injustice is done poor old wanship manship in the way of passenger fares inthe in the near future we expect a new railroad will pass th through roligh here and help us out and also the john W young road will help us a far as bert Himl alls ranch much a waiting room will be built anti aim a line of stages connected v hei toby PaSS passengers eDgers from manship wanship and vicinity can make the round trip for three dollars I 1 WM REYNOLDS postmaster G R merchant |