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Show OIK TEI.KGRAFH SKKVICK. The telegraph service in Salt Lake, in some respects, is not what it should be in a city of 50,000 people by any meaus. The ofHce itself would be a discredit to a place of 5000 people. In a village it is perhaps customary to close the telegraph office duriugcertain hours on Sunday, but that such a custom cus-tom should prevail in a city of such commercial importance as Salt Lake is simply absurd. There are other faults that can bo -mentioned regarding the telegraph service in this city, but we suppose they must be endured so long us the present monopoly exists. There's nothing like having a "cinch "ou the public, and that is what tho Western Union has on Salt Lake. But when the Postal telegraph company's lines get in here next year au immediate relief re-lief will be afforded. That is always the case' where' there is competition. The Postal company is now building its lines into Denver, and from there they will be pushed on to Salt Lake, anil then from this point they will be built to San Francisco. The Postal telegraph will be warmly welcomed in Salt Lake, and at every other point where the Western Union, now exercises the monopolistic mo-nopolistic "public-be-dd" policy. |