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Show Now Is Time to Make City Air Postal Station v Bv Ira C. Tichenor . Prospects that Bait Lake, aa th result of a campaign launched yesterday yes-terday by The Telegram, will be officially of-ficially declared an air postal station on th Wood row Wllaon airway from the Atlantic ' to the Pacific, aroused much enthusiasm and keen Interest throughout the city. Assurances Immediately wer given by leading business men that they would i all within their power to assist In bringing th campaign to a sucoeaaful concl tslon. It was declared that Salt Lake, aa tha capital city of Utah and th metropolis of this section of the country, is th logical point for an air postal station. Not only this, but th fact that Ft. Dougla la located practically within th city make Salt Lak an Ideal station, from a-vrnllltary standpoint, snd belief generally was expressed that this fact will be taken Into serious consideration by thoss who may be delegated to make the selection selec-tion of stations. QUICK ACTION URGED. Colorado and Utah and end at Bant a Barbara, Cal. No. 4 will be known aa th Chanut and Bell airway. It will start at Bo, ton and 'go on an almost straight Un to Buffalo, will cross Lake Erls to Detroit and after paaslng over th state of Michigan will cross Lake Michigan to Milwaukee, thence go to Rt. Paul avid Minneapolis pass through North Itkotn and Montana and thenc to Seattle. Wash. Th fifth hss been named for Cal-nreath Cal-nreath P. Rodgera, who. In 111, made the first transcontinental flight. Starting Start-ing at Norfolk. Vl, it will strike IXHilavill, and 8t. Ixuls and from there will go In a southwesterly direction di-rection -to Ijom Angele. SUCCESS. 8o successful was the first postal airway established In th United Htates that between New York and the national capital, that government officials Immediately decided that aa soon a poaalbie the entire country would be given the benefit of such a system of fast malt delivery. In a short time sn airship mall service ser-vice will be established between New York and Chicago by way of Cleveland Cleve-land Thla will be the beginning of the Wood row Wilson way, which even- tunlly will. If the business men of tslt LAke get busy at once. Include this city In Its list of stations. Its Is stated that the present aerial postal service between New York and Washington Is paying for Itself. Ths I postal charge has been reduced from ; 24 rents tn It cents for th first oune I and f cents for additional ouncea for j first clasa mall. Thia Includes special delivery from the moment the letter I mailed until it I delivered. NOT AN EXPERIMENT, j Mall by alrplancno longer Is an ex ' perlment. The mall now Is being carried car-ried In all kinds of weather and It merely Is a matter of time until all the principal cities, of the country, from ths Atlantic to the Paclflo and .from the lake to the gulf, will be served with poatal airplanes. It Is confidently predicted by Th Telegram that the declaration of neaor will be followed by an era of Immenae development In aeronautica, with air mall, express, frvlght and passenger carrying line all over the United Htates. Halt Lak will b on of th fortunate fortu-nate cltlea to b Included In the Initial ervlc If the leaders of progress here apply their -customary hustling proclivities proc-livities to the project. Immediate action Is urged, in view of the possibility of an early peace and the prohahillty that as the result of a cessation of hostilities In the near future, with a consequent decrease de-crease in th use of airplanes for war purposes, the establishment of the proposed, air postal service may be ordered much sooner than the government originally Intended. 'It is the expressed belief that Rait Iake. by reason of being designated aa a station on the Wood row Wllaon airway, will be accorded a distinction which Its six and commercial Importance Im-portance Justifies, and that It will be an advertising asset of great value. UNITED ACTION. Confidence is expressed by business men generally that the various commercial com-mercial bodies and civic organisations will take the matter up at once and bring to bear all pressure possible In an effort to have Salt tke definitely selected aa one of the various stations. According to ths plana now tentatively tenta-tively sgreei' qpo.. by Washington officials, there will be five greet transcontlnentsl airways, one for the Atlai tir const, snother for the Pacific and still another for the gdlf border. Th first of the transcontinental airwave, the Wood row Wllaon. already al-ready ha been mapped out and the atatlons tentatively agreed upon. This airway will crow th continent nearer the .nter than any of th others. Ptartlng at New York. It will follow fol-low a direct line to Cleveland, thence to Toledo, to South Rend, Intge- and from thre to Chicago. From the Middle Western metropolis th route will be through Dubuque and Dea Moines. Ia., to Omaha and thence to Denver. After Denver will come Salt Lak-erlf he tentative plans definitely are adopted. From this city the route will be by way of Reno ad Sacramento to San Francisco. OTHER AIRWAYS, Th second alrwsy. named In honor of the Wright brothers, starts at Ft. Myer. near Washington. D. C. will run through North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Ala-bama, Texaa. New'Mexico and Arisona and end at Pan Diego. Cat. Airway No. I will be known aa th Langley and named for th pioneer experimenter In heavler-than-air machine. ma-chine. It will start at Philadelphia and pass through Pennsylvania, Ohio, In't'-.n Mi.siiH Kan.ss southern |