Show watson man mail rome is df Uinta hs contract expires not NO mail from mack since tuesdays tuesday all mail may come via colton apparently the post office department has abandoned the watson vernal mall mail route known officially as route no tuesday evening the contract with the uintah railway company expired and t pince that time the company lias has refused to take the mall mail aiom the vernal office or le ie olve it at watson this in accordance cor dance with instructions received from the department some time ago john mcandrews of the company brott to the postal officials inquiring whether the department would want the company to carry the after the contract expired on june 30 by virtue of the clause in the contract which requires the contractor to carry the mail for a period of six months after the expiration of the contract if the department dopart part ment so elects in response to his letter of Iti inquiry mr mcandrews received the following letter biorn the fourth assistant postmaster general mr john Mc mcandrews AndreNa vernal utah itar sir attention has beer been called to the fact that your contract for service on the route described below june 1914 and no service should be preformed by you after that date notwithstanding the fact that net has been awarded for the service for tha bouto after that date should the pot master he authorized to provide for special supplies for his office he may employ you under the instruction st which will bo be issued to him route no yours truly JAS JAB P BLAKSLEE fourth assistant post master general to further complicate matters the duchesne stage company refused to take the outgoing mall mail that heretofore has pone gone on the uintah the stivers dievers di dt ivers and agento of this company claim that they are not under contra contract et 1 to crry carry this mall mail and have received no instructions to doso boso from anys any one none of odthe the postmasters affected by the change have hoen been and they have bays never been instructed what steps to take to geathe maill maili through postmasters stert young had not returned from fromwalt Salt take I 1 ako and his assistants ami powerless to act in the watter mr mcandrews decla reff that he has haa no authority what ever eer to touch the mail under the instructions received those conversant with the situation are of the bellor belief that the department intends to abandon the watson vernal i oute aute and have all of the mall mail i omo ome via colton if this ole as correct be no end to the will come from the patroni oi the vernal office mastern blasters mail would be three days daya long er coming by way of colton even it if it were always ow on time and the western mall mail would be one day later monte young the new con tractor on the colton route declared while in vernal lat last week that it would be impossible for his company to carry all the mail for the uintah basin has in and that the reservation mall mail would tax the re of the company for some time to come under the last proposals sent out by the department the uintah railway submitted a bid but this was evidently unsatisfactory to the officials and hence was not accepted the company has been loosing money on its maill con cona tract and is relieved that the service for an extra six mouth month is not required of them the company will conduct its pas benger and express service as usual A new schedule will be arranged and announced later in the meantime those in charge of the vernal post office have wired to washington for instructions |