Show U Better Mail Service ervice For the Uintah Basin Needed I r rI Mail Carried by Trucks From Thistle Junction tion Nearly From Provo to Price And Then by T Truck to These I Basin Towns The question of routing this mall into the basin is now and always has been a serious sub sub- Three mail routes have been used The Indian canyon route was thought best and f fifteen teen years ago likely was the best Times have changed Now we have a better road leading westerly westerly westerly west west- erly over the Wasatch range Not only is this western road better but to reach Provo or Salt Lake City only one real climb one range must be passed over On the present route the mail mall I comes over two summits each higher than the Victory Highways Highway's highest point Today our mail trucks start at Thistle Junction down nearly to Provo then travel parallel to the D. D R. R G. G to CastleGate Castle CastleGate Gate and Price and then come to toward toward toward to- to ward this Uintah Basin over the Indian canyon summit I Politics plays a big part in such matters That means that organization organization organization organ organ- party activity of this and that kind are for the purpose immediately immediately im im- im- im mediately before us Carbon county county coun coun- ty has by years of training regarded regard regard- ed this basin as commercially and otherwise quite dependent on that county Really we may only admire admire admire ad ad- mire their desire to hold on to a r good thing I II I But for ourselves for our development development development de de- de- de it now becomes necessary necessary necessary i sary for the Uintah Basin two counties to ask for its mail servi i ice over the better route and that means via Heber City Ten years ago or five years ago it was regarded as impossible to keep Strawberry valley open for winter traffic although elevation elevation elevation ele ele- ele- ele is about 1000 feet lower at the highest point than Indian canyon summit Road equipment and better handling of such work this winter with a fair covering of snow indicates that the road could be kept in good condition with twice vice as much snow as we now have Today the road from Vernal to Salt Lake City is just like a pave pave- ment And it is kept scraped down close to the ground where the snow is deep insuring a dry road as soon as any thawing com com- To be without a railroad and to see our mail trucked alongside of a railroad as it is today increasing in increasing increasing in- in creasing the mileage and cost apparently apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap In order to please Carbon Carbon Carbon Car Car- bon county is going too strong Our Uintah Basin towns should stand ft firmly lly for jor this basin Clever political and other activity should not cloud our minds We Ve should know that making this western road our main artery is for our good and neglecting this mail mall question permitting it to go on onas onas onas as asit it is is helping the other fellow fellow fellow fel fel- fel- fel low Is expensive for us I If its it's politics then lets let's play politics |