Show I Governor I Ia I I Congratulations 3 a TN N THE decision of the government to establish an air mail station x i I 1 IN in Salt Lake on the to Pacific air lane lanc is seen the successful successful successful suc suc- culmination of the fight waged in the interests of Utah by Governor Simon Bamberger and the Salt Lake Telegram Another victory is won and nd Utah is advanced one step further in the line of progress Upon receiving information May 19 that attempt was being made to jockey Utah out of her aerial mail station Governor Bamberger announced that Utah would not submit tamely to discrimination discrimination dis dis- discrimination crimination in favor of Arizona 0 where it was announced stations were to be established at Yuma and Phoenix and California with stations planned for for- Bakersfield and Fresno We Ve will fight for our rights Governor Bamberger Bam declared and his action was indorsed immediately by The Telegram Governor Bamberger immediately wired to Senators Reed Smoot and William H H. H King and to Congressmen James H H. H Mays and Milton H H. H Welling urging them to protect Utah's interests in inthe inthe inthe the national capital with regard to the establishment of an air mail station in Salt Lake or some other Utah city Governor Bamberger also used other means at his command to impress upon the government government government gov gov- that Salt Lake is the logical place for an air station on the Atlantic to to Pacific lane Today's victory crowns these efforts Utah is to get an air mail st station tion with its attendant benefits The establishment of an aerial mail station in Salt Lake will shorten the postal distance to New York by nearly thirty-six thirty hours Had not Utah been given an air station mail would have been carried overland by airplane to Omaha and thence by railto rail railto railto t I to Utah a delay of more than twelve hours flours With Alcock and Brown crossing the Atlantic to England in sixteen hours American aerial postmen should cover the distance from New York to Salt Lake in from twenty-four twenty to thirty-six thirty hours at least I The congratulations of all are extended to Governor I Bamberger for his work in securing the air station to Utah |