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Show "SALT LiliBFOSTOFFCE' Who Is Responsible for the tirra' YYaat ef Proper FarlliUrt Here I A NEW 0UTTIT 5ECES8ABT. What Will Be Done at Once to Secure These Heeded ImproTenwnts, It has been know nYr some days that Messrs. C. J. Brow n anil A. G. Lawrence, Law-rence, general postothVe inspector, were in town, and it w but natural tJ infer that their visit to Salt Lake Imported Im-ported a thorough overhauling of th post office here, iucludlug the great lack of facilities ami luH-esiry improve meets. This morning It learned that while the routine business of th office was found in excellent eondition, the insMV(ors had lierouie greatly impressed im-pressed by the deplorable uutitnsss of the facilities now in use for handling tho very large amount of mail matter which comes to and departs from Salt Laka daily. Snie time gn the xvstma.ster her was requested to make measurement. of the entire space occupied by the HMtomv iu the Wasatch building. build-ing. This m done, ami the result re-sult was submitted t (lot Yale A Tew ne company for plans and estimates of an entire new outfit of th mo-4 modem mid improved description to occupy and lit into the space given. Three different plans were submitted, and oiiu of these w selecled as covering cover-ing the requirements of the office; and within the pmt day or two thUplau and ; estimate w as submitted lu tua Groe-beck Groe-beck Rrolliers. e-wors of Ihe postoflkrt department, with an lutimatiou that the improvements must be made, else th lease would I cancelled. The Grocs-U'cks Grocs-U'cks declined to accede to Ih demand, which would involve an exMudilur of between tTlSWandf tO.OOW, slid preferred that the lease should be cauci lled aud new bids asked for bv tho department. It is now understood thut this will twt done, ami tho lowest bidder, provided the site Is iu buy way suitable, suit-able, will he awarded the fitting iii of a suitable s.slutllce with ail the most modern Improvement. In all respects adequate to th proper handling hand-ling of the immense volume of mull matter now passing through the S Lake office. These facilities will Include In-clude over bum Yale lock boj's. tw large revolving cases for the general delivery department and suitable I newspaper rases; besides offices for thl hisI master and his assistant, two delivery de-livery windows, a money order window uud a stamp wiudowr. Should tho location loca-tion of the office ho ( hanged and a ber lease taken, it w ill Dot he for a Ic-a period I linn live years. It being deemed improbable that a government building w III Ih completed in this city In any less time, As giving an Idea of the Iminermi amount of work performed in th Salt Luke office. It may I stated that the letter taken at haphazard from the general delivery rase this morning, ihowed seventy letters for lemons w Iiom Datura begin with II; and all the other compartment com-partment were piiully crowded. N wonder the linn of waiting pie pin w host) mad comes through the general delivery dcpurthimit is so long and thai the delay l so great. Then the employees em-ployees ore worked ulinit beyond endurance, en-durance, niBiiy of them Mug required to stay up until I and 3 o'clock In th morning nud lie on duty again at 7. Even Sunday I not an exception to ttii strain, the assistant postimuU-r ur-lug ur-lug the scriM that all day tomorrow there will be at least ten rlerks on duty, Tho nespM'r department of th Salt Lake ollicn l iwwt woftllly deficient iu f.u ililic, more than is the letter department. There are not nrrly a uU-elcitt uU-elcitt nuitilicr of case, and what ther are are crowded l compactness). What call not lie got lulo the. raw ar piled up on the floor, anil a call at the peristal peri-stal delivery for tliU el.tiM of mail n CeMitate a search through a nii of matter with which there ha I wen no attempt at rluilication. "The faili tie of the Salt Lake office," said an otllcial. "am the same today M t(sy wcr twenty three years ago. The en eral po!oflie department Work on 4 system of rule, and thus rule apply equally to all town of Ihes.imn man-lx-rof permanent iuhaMtunu. Thcr Is no allowance made (or thn iiomious floating population of a town tika Salt Lake, and which doe not come) t ait eastern city with from 40,i0 t.i SO.00O Inhabitant. We are Inform! that art institution will shortly (' r-tahtUh! lu Halt Lake, whh h will mail at I at lo.noo letters dally, and which will not reerlre le, than 30,000 ill the aaili" time. What are We) to tlo w hen , this iuiiiien.i addition U mad to our present work? There should lie no dispowitlon on thl part of the part of the pnl'lii' to hold PostnuKter Barrett rpnsibte for the) Inefliciency of the Salt Lake powtofHt;-, That gentleman l i dooo ail In hi power to afford pronr accommodations, accommoda-tions, and If his efforts hv hitherto Ix-.'n without sneers It has not been kU fault. This Tim ha.s th assurance flf Inspector Lawrence that thus U the fact. Tiir. m, !,; riftornrK. In the Ogden tof!li thing nav not been aa regular as tiw department expects-, and the result haa Wen a change in official. Awwtant Posttna.-ter Posttna.-ter Mmty ho. been auceeeded in hi office of-fice by a young gentleman named Jjme Hoop, who I represented a mau of fine btisui qualification aud Treat energy. The pontmaater. General Gen-eral Kimball, w ho fonght under Grant, during the war, it a gentleman of tho old school, but ts physically unable) to perform the multifarious dutiea of thai offiee, unless he be aided by a wide. asnisUnt, and it w believed that the uhaug): which has l:en made will ixs , adequate for all emrtrencie. Messr. Brown and Lawrence) will h I'm the territory oro time hngt acd ( will make Salt Laka their headquarters, ! |