Show RURAL URAL MAIL DELIVERY EXTENDED I j I i I I 1 j S ator Rawlins Receives Communication From Prom Washington Af Al 1 feeling Murray and American Fork Postmaster Thomas on onI I I I Subject of the Betterment of 01 the theS th Service in This State i senator has received r a a com corn from froni the first assistant er general In answer to the tire request Informing him him that he e C rural free delivery delhery out of ot Murray i Salt Lake Lako county and of ot American prk rk In Utah county c have been ordered tended and established lo to establish two rural Postmaster Thomas also today recel ec c delivery routes from Calders Park east caPt ea t covering 20 miles and serving 6 houses bouses with a 1 population of tries arles F Calvert Is appointed carrier carriera th th a n salary of ot OO The route west am m 01 Calders covers 20 miles serves K houses and a n population of ot COO The Tho Thenet net Is Merari North whose salary also OO Che he at Mill Creek Miller anger nger ner and ond Hunter wilt will be 1 this his his Is a great boon to tho the rural dents In the tho vicinity of t these towns now Instead of oC having to travel feral rul ial miles to t get end and post yost their mail mall have hao to go to tho the box that is ut nt ate hed ed e to their gate post Pest poste be e C recent action of the de do dement ment at Washington ashIngton In authorising establishment of ot several new MY ne rural Ver very routes In this state mate as an announced In the News New has lias awakened the interest Int rest of ot people rally illy In the rural delivery system g A L THOMAS TUO IASu 4 lien Hien u n seen ceen today l ter A L Lit LI it I 5 of or ak Luke Lake talked talk In an In Inlag sting Ung lag vein on an the subject said Rural tural free delivery has hasto fn to 0 bo be one of ot the most moet popular s a sever over ever established by I the post P t department The larger cities had the privilege ge of free delivery delhery years ears but the th citizens Of or tIre the thet 1 t have a e had to depend on onI ont I local for Cor their mull mall t Ply bavin to tu travel long distances U y even this tIri airmail privilege Now it t has come com and the day daye T e count country r Is l rapidly r ng rig before tru tho lie march of Improve tin in lh tire postal service Rural free Creo freer j r er er ry Is h riot not ft very el ei old but the ss bu irn grown on so 10 rapidly rn that the tho throughout the Union now no num nurn any ny fly thousand and the tho erl in his rt lo to be bl submit F Congress at tire the corning coming session lulOn n ft appropriate of over oer I O 00 O i sen l Ice c rural delivery Is In some ore re rea rea reit a it greater benefit to the lire people la hi l fret free Cr delivery dell f In the city el For Kor or orce fl ce the rural carrier can cn sell ell n a J aa a ey y a n letter or sell sel 11 ls s at the door of at the farmer Carmer and andI I k can e cancel letters leters or postal cards ed to him as a he posses passes along his Iris te If farmer former Jones Jane wants to send ward to farmer Carmer Smith who lives a few Cew lies lles les farther on that thai on Monday next e will wl be ready read to or to lo do rio else elme ell he hc rends him word oid b hal tal card cr or r letter leler The earner carrier takes lakes t cancels the tM stamp delivers It It itus BUS us giving to the tire farmer tire the benefit a 1 dally daily dal special nl enger service tell r one OM or two Iwo cents el Ho lie le can n buy hu 10 n fl flOne Notify ont One order at a tile his own door dor and mull mail mailat at the same time tm He lie le can register t rl n a netter tier etter t r also alo und rind buy 11 postage po tn stamps to tD all 11 Intent and purposes rural rura etc te e delivery delhery every ont house on oil In tIe the carriers route a his II It is I time the most remarkable develop tnt eat of the the system m which has baa hl Ter tr r been made In any airy an country count It Is Im that the ctt ns of ot Itah lb tab avail Ial themselves them of ot the benefits e this service by br commencing the ternary work ork to secure the CUlf of ot routes mutes throughout the dlf dif K eat out of ot the th state slats and ard ad r their Ihno of f the tire appropriation asked aked for tor by Postmaster General Smith Tire The regulations require a a carriers route to tobo tob tobe bo be b from fifteen to miles mies in hr II length the tire distance being being governed al almost almost in most moat entirely by the number of pat patrons patrena rons rena Very ery frequently a n carrier curier will vill wi have hav all ni he ho can do serving a I route lit Jf teen miles mies In length HOW now TO OBTAIN IT 1 If I the people of any an portion porton of oC the tho state desire delire rural delivery delvery they the must prepare first a a map showing the tire route to be traveled by the tire carrier and show showIng Ing In also alao the sections through which It runs and the different highways which Intersect it I or run parallel with wih It Second The houses houseR school houses and meeting houses should also aleo be bo shown It I Is ts usual to pince pIn co one dot lot at nt atthe the place on the route where the houses arc are situated two dots for Cor the school schoolhouses schoolhouses houses hous s and three dots for tor the meeting meetinghouses houses hou s and to make a I reference to the meaning of oC the dots on the corner CIrner of or orthe the map atop Three A petition p should be prepared to be signed only by the heads of ot families addressed 1 to the postmaster general nuking for the establishment nt of oC the route Fourth The petition petton and an map should then be sent fent to the Representative tive Ue or Senator In Congress for endorse endorsement mont ment and transmission to the post postmaster postmaster postmaster master general who wino then sends Rends n a special sp lal agent to examine the proposed route ru and If everything Is the tha agent selects a carrier and a II sub substitute substitute stute carrier and recommends that bitt the tire route be b established The depart department department ment mc t will wi ill next require r that each pat patron Patron ron of ot the new n route rute purchase a n secure box to be bo placed 1 In front of oC his resi real residence residence dence denee In which the carrier can deposit the mall mail mal There Th re are about twenty dif dit different tl ferent styles of ot boxes which have been en approved by th thi department ranging In cost ost delivered to Io the patron from Crom t to 1300 1350 0 A very ery excellent box with wih safe key ke can be purchased and delivered for tor about 10 and this Is Istine the tine one mostly used The Tire necessity of oC putting up appropriate mall mail boxes at the tIre gates on the main highway has harm ha resulted In many farmers farmer In other states giving their places distinctive names It I Is II a I splendid did 11 hI Idea as ns a name nm gives h a n farm Carm an nn In Individuality and a dignity that nothing else can The custom of naming farms fam I rind estates tins has hal been b en In vogue o e In Eng land for Cor marry many years and as al a n conse consequence quence the English highways are arc the tho th mot most Interesting In the world to traveler FIVE FI ESTABLISHED ROUTES flOUTER There ore art now MW five nn established routes In successful In the Salt lt Lake I valley and tIrre thre more have been erl es established to lo commence service on Jan January January January uary J 1 next lext The fire history of ot tho tine establishment e and growth of oC rural free fre delivery in the theol ball ol Lake Ike valley ale is in II Interesting t Bonn S three years Cat ago ngo a o postmaster J Thomas called calcI the tIre attention of oC the tho postal nu flu to the exceptionally favorable conditions existing In the Fait Lake Pal valley 01 for tor rural delivery delhery and Ind Special Agen Ian Win E B Annin now HOW superintend superintendent eat ent nt of the th western division d vision of ot rural de tie livery was Wa detailed to Investigate the situation The Time result of oC his hla visit was W the tho establishment of oC the tire Initial Utah route roule running cast from the Murray In n a thickly settled setd corn com community cm The service proved popular and soon foon on afterwards Postmaster Io Thomas Thomal met pret with wih Postmaster ter Wilson antI and citizens of Hands Bandy anti and Murray anti maps anti petitions were prepared pre a d and submitted which led I d to the establish establishment ment of ht one additional route from Mur Murray my ray m and three from antii in this work ork the tb county commissioners ner under the lead Irad of ot the th h late Inte Bishop took a n special interest and furnished famished maps mains prepared 1 by b the tM county surveyor The steps tep next taken were by time tho HI citizens of oC Mill lUl Creek eek and Postmaster J Walker of oC has hu Un been b fn especially active tn and ad Iris his hs have live resulted reButted In tho the visit of ot Special Agent Osborne who him has hl recommended recommended mended mendel a route which takes In alt ull tire tho country surrounding lerton find and in thc rn portion of oC the tire county Through the th efforts of or Postmaster Wilson Wison of ot Sandy u at route has also been re Im nde which covers all ni ot of the th country directly cast enst of ot Sandy Including About fifteen months ago ngo committees in a at of tt t citizens from Crol Murray Mill Creel Creek and aIrd II called upon ter Thomas and urged the th e cc ca of rural delivery delvery in their respective localities Tire The Tlc necea sary papers paper were prepared anid trails trana milled to Senator I earn and Sutherland for tor endorsement and then to tire the department Ind at It Washington whIr tIre the pub In tIre the De ert News a a a ow YC ago announcing service seiti e commence on the tine two Iwo new routes from 10 park 01 running east t alid ail we w t rl west to anti and pan no from Crom Murray running With tho tire exception of oC tIre the th und and tho tire district east of f Sandi Sant for which service has hn Mon boon recommend recommended l leel ed eel tI by Special Agent Arent Ormsby east cast and small portion of oC country eDt northeast of oC Holiday and ond the western portion of oC the county on the tre west side porton of ot tho the Jordan tie river and nid Lake county out Draper nil of Salt Sal cOUlty ni 1110 of Salt Sal Lake City has been covered 1 by rural delivery lel e 1 |