Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-09-05 | Page 68 | Postal Order is Suspended

I POSTAL ORDER IS SUSPENDED Senator Reed Smoot Receives letter tetter Leter From Washington on V V Vernal ernal R Rates tes United States Sen Senator tor Reed Smoot Is In recel receipt t of ot a a letter reter rl from OI the postal hostal department i in reply to his telegram n sent last last week weck In which Pos Postmaster master General on 1 advises 01 that lint ho lie has suspended tho the order r for an Increase In parcel post ost rates from Salt Sal JJ Lake ke and Provo to Vernal and other othor points In tho basin from 54 64 cents t to ti 05 p per r flit fifty pounds pound The suspension of ot tho the order the let letter letter let let- ter says sas will hold until a thorough Investigation of or the matter mater has be bet been n nI made mado by b. agents of oC tho the postal department depart depart- ment meat This Information has been communicated communicated com corn to to tho the Provo Commercial club which organization was greatly Interested d In the matter mater as there greaty Is I a A large trac trade e between Provo Prove mercantile establishments and amid merchants of oC the Uintah basin and much of oC the material Is by parcel post The order would tend to throw this business to Colorado merchants an as the shipping rate from Colorado points Into tIme the basin would be only half hal of or what It would bo be from Provo Prove and Salt Lake