Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-04-20 | Page 3 | Jordan Announces Immediate Installation of More Radio Apparatus for Business Work

Jordan Announces Immediate Installation of More Dore ore Radio Apparatus for Business W Work r orI-r installation of larger sending sendIng sending send send- THE T ing and receiving apparatus at the Salt Lake radio station station station sta sta- tion of th the alf mail service at atan atan atan an early day Is predicted by Colonel Colonel Colonel Colo Colo- nel John A. A Jordan superintendent of the Pacific division of the service service service ser ser- ser ser- vice now In Salt Lake This will permit considerable commercial business aside from the transaction transaction transaction tion of purely air mall mail routine mat mat- It will mean the sending of adaily a a. adaily daily market and weather report from Eastern cities to the coast and it will be permissible for all wireless stations everywhere e to pick pickup pickup pickup up the message wh whether ther government government govern govern- ment or privately owned With the start of day and night flying on May 1 I we expect to carry mail mall from New York to San Francisco in at least thirty-six thirty hours Colonel Jordan said We Ve will still Use dee the De Haviland planes now in the service and although al although al- al though we haven't all the ships we wo need we will be able to get along with what we have until congress gives us more money The service could use additional ships and we expect to have them because we are demonstrating every day the entire feasibility of the air ser ser- vice We Ve are also handling wireless wireless wire wire- wireless less service at a great reduction over over ver surface lines and for that reason I am confident that congress congre con congress gre gress gress s will soon see th the virtu virtue virtue of ot increasing the radio facilities The air mall mail broke the record both ways yesterday in the matter of bringing pouches from Omaha and San Francisco From the time the mail mall left Omaha until it was in the boxes at the Salt Lake office only eighteen hours were con con- Pouches that left San Francisco at 6 o'clock in the morning morning morn morn- ing were landed at Woodward field at 1 25 p. p m m. m This shortened the best previous record from the coast by fifteen minutes According to Superintendent of Mails Chambers at the local postoffice postoffice postoffice post- post office all aU first class mail mall placed in the fhe local after 12 1230 30 each day leaves for the coast at G 30 the following morning It reaches San Francisco at 2 30 that afternoon All eastbound mail mall de deposited deposited de- de posited here after 7 30 in the evening evening evening eve eve- ning goes b by plane the following morning The e is sending an average of pounds of mail mall west daily dany and nearly neaIly double that amount to the East I