Show FROM SALT LAKE tho the mail contractor to salt lake it must be admitted has performed his part of the undertaking to express the presidents message energetically and rapidly besent he sent it through from salt bait lake to placerville erville in in seven days in the middle of winter and through the snow D during aring the past week large quantities of snow must have fallen upon the sierra nev nevadas adas but it has obstructed the road so little that it is is not oven even mentioned the message arrived at genoa inday friday afternoon and was delivered in in placerville erville saturday morning having been carried over the mountains and through the s snow now in one night we doubt whether the feat has ever been performed before in in the same time in in the month of december on the new road to salt lake from carson valley there was vas no s snow ew of consequence and it is i evident that that it does not fall on that line in in quantities sufficient to interfere with carrying the mail so far the road over ov er the sierra nevada nev ada has been kept open and there is is now little danger of its being seriously obstructed this winter vinter thompson will be able to keep it in in good traveling condition without difficulty for the remainder lema inder of the winter the cause of the delay vv was as on the other side of salt lake and so far as our information g goes 0 o es the real cause was as so far east of bt louis as to hav e been in washington city |