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Show MAILS ARE COMING IN Freight Congestion Is Relieved Re-lieved and Mails Will Arrive Promptly. Since last, spring the local postofflce and the general public have been' greatly Inconvenienced by the Irregular Irregu-lar way in which the Eastern malls have been arriving. They have seldom been on time and were often a number of hours late. - This was accounted for by the unprecedented un-precedented freight traffic that the railroads have been called upon : to handle since last spring that kept the roads ' blocked and delayed the mall trains. . . ' Postmaster Thomas, said this morning morn-ing that a marked improvement had been noticed during the past few days in the arrival of malls and expressed It as his opinion that In a short time Salt Lakers might expect to receive their Eastern mail more regularly. This change for the better he accounts ac-counts for by saying that the railroads have been Increasing their facilities for moving freight and are again getting their lines clear and by the fact that the rush of freght across the country has somewhat subsided. . |