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Show A PRACTICAL BOOST. A letter dated at st Thomas. Nevada, on Christmas day reached The Tribune offi e ,n abom six days from Its time of mailing. II contains a complain! which Is verified In the time occupied by its transmission. The writer says that the service la execrable between Si Thomas and the railroad station. Moapa. being carried three limes a week from St. Thomas bv pon to Overton eight miles, and then by stage to Moapa, fourteen mller. This stretch of twenty-two miles It would seem to be easy to cover In three hours. But Overton Is the distributing point for all the posfofflces of the district Including that of St. George, Utah Our correspondent corre-spondent complains that the distributing distribut-ing postmaster at Overton holds the St. Thomas mall forty-eight hours so that It Is at least three days covering the twenty-two miles of road; that a letter leaving Salt Lake City on Saturday lies over at Moapa until Tuesdav, is held at Overton two days and arrives at St. Thomas on Thursday night. If this omplalnt Is Just and it would seem to be so, the business men of Salt Lake City should Join with the citizens of the locality, which is thus injured. In demanding immediate reform; because mine-owners at Gold Butte and other parts of southeastern Nevada make their purchases at Salt Lake City and are greatly hampered by the tlelav In malls. This Is one of the practical ways to boost for Salt Lake. Open up the trl-butary trl-butary ountry to sw ift communication by malls and express and enlarge the commerce of the great intermountain capital so that men shall not be driven to send their trade elsewhere |