Show h y J yf While the of the aeroplane who carry the mail over ever the mountain mountain moun moun- tam tain and plane through storm and sunshine fearless in every way and andin andin nd in their efforts to make the Schedules schedules sched schedules ules prescribed faC face death at times there are a few persons who will wili kick one in a long while storm or some trouble with their flying ship compels a forced stop and the pilot is necessarily forced to delay delivery Suppose he had to go back bacle to theold theold the theold old days when instead of a letter bein being carried from front the At Atlantic antic to the Pacific in thirty hours as now more than thirty days daya was required For more than two years vears after the pioneers came to th the Salt Lake Lal val valley vali ley Icy there was was' no regular mail maH and whatever came in the way yay of letters letters letters let let- was brought by chance travelers trav tray elers When Almon W W. Babbitt was sent to Washington as the delegate frOl from 1 the state of Deseret Deseret Des- Des eret Oret he carried with him the eastbound eastbound east east- bound mail from Salt Lake And only once or twice a year rear was the monotony of living broken brol b by the arrival of any mail mall In the valley There were no envelopes postage stamps were unknown in fact the use of ot adhesive postage stamps which were authorized by the government gOVernment goVernment gov gOV- only made their appearance appearance appearance appear appear- ance In the east In the Uie latter part of 1847 Buckskin covers overs were around the letters and the tho package was tied w with th buckskin strings It I Is recalled that the first regular man mail service to Salt Lake City under a a. a contract with the federal government government govern govern- government ment was brought by Colonel Samuel Samuel Samuel Sam Sam- uel H H. Woodson the route being from Independence Mo to Salt Lake and the service was monthly The first regular mail was start started d din cin in July 1850 Then rhen during the summer summer sum sum- mer of 1851 Feramorz Little began the carrying of the mail over a part 0 of the route tinder a subcontract I with Colonel Woodson the easte eastern n I end of the Little contract being Fort i f Laramie and on the of each month the carriers carrier carriers carriers' met there the assistants of Mr Little being Charles F Decker and Ephraim K i Hanks Willard Ri Richards hards was postmaster postmaster postmaster post post- master of Salt Lake being the first postmaster ster of th the city But I time I changes and the changes are so quickly made that one is prone to forget I |