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Show PRICE CITIZEB HAVE 1 1 CAUSE 10 BE HAPPY 1 I Re-Establishment of Stage Line I to Vernal Will Give Town Big Boost. 1 1 H Special to The Tribune. Wft j jjH PRICE. Jan. C Tho second assistant postmaster general ut Washington Is EjjjjjE H asking for bids for carrying the mall seven times weekly from Price to "Vcr- ?J U! nal, which means the ro-cstabllshment J Jf H of the stage and mall line from hero lo ( Ijij JH the reservation country, abandoned some i jej six years ago with the building of the K IK H Uintah narrow-gauge railroad from Mack. h Colo., lo within sixty miles of Vernal B US and also an equal distance to iort uu- j j., ,n chesne. The proposals aro from February J L (H 1 next to Juno 30, 1910, when, ns is the U custom, bids will be cnlled for for the H next fiscal year. The distance from Price fi H to Vernal is 132 miles, while the time 1 JH H allowance over the road is thirty-two ,f J5 A hours. This road Is open nil winter, while Uilljj M by the Uintah railroad, which crosses II W, iH Baxter pass. Vernal and the reservation Jj' country have at times been without mail 8! 1) TM for two weeks because of the heavy snow- am H fall nnd blockaded railroad. liH.t IH The re-establishment of this star route JjllL IB Is the result of an Investigation lately tfjW made by J. S. Roberts, superintendent of fjj ; ; B the railway mall service, who recently ISHi , H mude investigations of the Colton route. Mi V! vl the one bv way of Price, and the Mack 81! railroad route. It means that the greater Mm portion of the trade and business of I in tH northeastern Utah will be done by way of jljtt'l jBJ Price, and buslnees men here arc conso- St I j jHJ quently rejoicing at the turn things have. JjJ im finally taken. (mm J |