| Show THE SALT LAKE POSTOFFICE I I Receives Due Recognition I the Boston Postal Record In the Postal Record for December is an excellent picture of Postmaster Benton i together with a brief reference Of his life i in the west From it the following Is taken Mr I A Benton the new postmaster post-master is a gentleman of fine executive abilities and is rapidly bringing the office to the front He took charge of the office on the first of Julyand already has received relief > in the shape of four additional carriers I car-riers on October 1 which now makes the total of sixteen carriers three of which are mounted Mr Benton was born atc aIS at-c Haven state of Connecticut in 1S47 For the past twenty years ho has been with the Union Pacific railroad and about ten < years at Fremont Nob five years at Opden Utah and five years as city ticket agent of the union office of Uujon Pacific and Denver Rio Grande in Salt Lake is a brotherinlaw of Senator Dprsoy of Nebraska and it can be safely said that no postmaster has ever given the satisfaction that the present incumbent has Of the genial assistant A H Nash the following appears Mr A H Nash the assistant postmaster was born in New York city in December 1S40 His early life was spent in his native city uutil April 18131 when he enlisted in tho Thirteenth Thir-teenth New York Volunteer infantry and served in the army till March 1865 He was five years in New York postoffijo and before coming to Salt Lake as assistant postmaster was union depot master at Og den Utah for two years from 1SS7 to ISbJ was in the railroad service as pool inspector in-spector for eight or nine years previous to entering the postal service heren The same number also contains complimentary compli-mentary references to Superintendent of Carriers Slade and Mr William Aubrey |
