Show ml ca COMM 10 V Ohn IF alps alk VA grand junction dally daily news reports brought to the chamber i of commerce at its lt meeting bat night showed eho wed that the situation in the mail and parcel post service from helper utah to vernal and the other dozen or more towns in the uintah basin la Is in a frightful state elate it was nas pointed out that at the present time either at price or somewhere along the route into the aln tall tah country there at least 16 tons of second class mall matter and parcel post 0 dt B packages many ot at which Is lying lyan g on the divide under heaps of snow three tons tona of turkeys destined destin d for that country wore dumped out at the side of the road and the government paid tor for the loss practically no effort Is beina made to transport parcel post stuff and sec kopd class clasa mattor matter because the road from helper over the divide into vernal la Is impassible impassable for auto trucks tor for three or four months of the year there la is not a lemon or an orange in some of t thebe towns and has baa not been lor for months months and the people axe are actually in need ot of the things that are piled up along the line some time ago the government changed the routing ot at the mall mail service into that country which has baa always gono gone from the terminus ol at the uintah railway at watson batoon a distance of about sixty miles and the dinall for that territory was started from helper the government decided to operate this star filar route itself and put on auto trucks it has baa been wholly unable to cope with the weather and keep beep tho the trucks running over the abe divide thousands of dollars have been uselessly wasted in an effort to keep the road open and snowplows enow snow plows drawn by teams were even sent ahead of the trucks to push the snow from the road but the snow filled in immediately behind the plows and the trucks could not get through they had to dump the man mall out at the mo side of 01 the me road read thia condition uever never prevailed when the mail was transported trane ported on from watson and every effort has been made by the people of the basin and by many ot of utah people to get the government to change back to the old conditions but the post postoffice office department has up until the present ahne turned a deaf ear to the proposition they declare they will keep the road open through the use of auto trucks pushing snow enow plows ahead of them or behind them or at the side bide of them many grand junction shippers have been sorely tried in an effort to get parcel post packages into the vernal country so strong has baa been the complaint that the chamber of commerce last night decided to take steps to try and have the old route via watson established reestablished re A motion prevailed that secretary ela get Loni complete piete data on the matter and dorward it to congressman taylor in the hope that he can get next to the powers that be the local chamber will make a do de herminea tern ter unea minea fight to get the people of vernal and tributary territory supplied with better mall mail and parcels post sorn service ice and there will III be no delay inathe in the efforts either |