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Show MAILS FROM HST . AGAI DELAYED Slides in Wyoming Tie Up Transcontinental Trains. The mail situation in Salt Lake City is one which is giving Postmaster Noble No-ble "VTarrum no little concern. Xo eastern east-ern mail trains arrived in Salt Lake City yesterday after 9:30 a. nr., the do-lay do-lay being due to the tremendous snow-slides snow-slides in Wyoming, which held up both east and west bound trains on the Union Pacific. It was stated by the postoffice authorities au-thorities last night that the mails "might arrive" this morning at S o'clock, but the postmaster hus lost faith in railroad predictions. When the trains arrive, he says, he will double shifts of employees to" distribute it. Three trains l'rom the east carrv the hulk of the eastern mail, namelv", No. 13, due at 8:30 a. m.; jo. 501, due at. noon, and No. 19, due at 5:30 p. m. At noon yesterday the railroad reported report-ed that the late trains would be here at -1 p. ni. At 4 p. m. the same source supplied the information that the mail would arrive at 2 this morning, and later in the evening 8 o'clock this morning morn-ing was named as the time when the mails would make their appearance. The problem is one which calls for much shuffling about of employees at the post-office. post-office. In the meantime Salt Lakers are without their eastern mail. |