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Show TO C'AHliY" MAILS, Salt Lake, Herald. D, E. Davis f St. John, who is at j.he White House, is making- final arrangements ar-rangements to tu'.cc charge of the mail route and stage lino between Lund and St. George. IJr. Travis has just .secured the Uiail contract to make six trips between be-tween these points, ninety miles apart each vecK, and he wjJJ c;o on down within a few days."" He will have four stages and. will use eighteen horses in his work, driving two stages, one from ca'ufl'e'n'd of 'tbfo 'route to some central point, where they will meet and transfer their loads.'. Notwithstanding Not-withstanding the discouragement of many persons who live along the route. Mr. Davis is confident he will make money out of the business. "They told me the road was sandy and so difficult that I could do nothing, " said he last night at the White House. "But when I went down I found that the sand was of little consequence in comparison with work I have had, Why, over on the Stockton and Deep Creek route, where I have just finished a contract, there was a much worse road. There was a place in that road where it sometimes took twelve hours to go five miles during the winter," |