| Show y SALT LARE LAKE CITY feb loth editor deseret news Is modern or ancient spiritualism profitable to any people and especially to the people of utah from the day when the woman of endor called up samuel the prophet until now have any beneficial effects accrued to society by reason of it does it not tend to scepticism free love ism and infidelity Inri delity ar OBSERVER ar OGAN CACHE COUNTY i 4 january 1870 i ediar editor deseret news sir I 1 wish through the columns of your y our paper to make known an evil which is a sore affliction to the inhabitants of cache county that is the miserable mal mai mallar maliar I 1 ar range ments between this county and Z your city As the postmaster of logan loga n 1 I can vouch for the proper dispatch of the mails from this place they are sent bent from here with the utmost re regularity flarity the carriers also attend to their thel duty in the best manner always arriving in schedule time mall mali mail ismall or no mail the mail from here reaches brigham city in proper time of that I 1 am certain but what hat becomes of it after arr arriving ivin bi chetel there I 1 am unable to say bay I 1 forwarded forward a registered letter in nov last to salt lake city and another to the same place ikee lice on bb dec I 1 received no ac of the receipt of those letters etters from the postmaster at that place ace aee until jan orle oxie one having been two months and hud the other one month and bim six d days le in making aking the round lound trip aze aim alm between here and your city this is only one instance out of many I 1 could name mame the same miserable failures occur on the way from salt lake city to cache county many of the letters are from eight days to six we weeks ekson on the themay th way eway and aud some noner nover reach here at all we receive telegram referring to letters that never come to hand hazi dand and the DESERET NEWS often comes too toro fr behind the time to create any interest letters and papers from ogden meet the same fate papers cow now sir bir these repeated failures in the mail arrangements which occur somewhere between ogden and brigham city have aroused the indignation of the p people e OPI e here and they call aloud fo for fon nar a remedy emed y what is to be done who is to b blame biame lam iam ei isyou if you can render us any assistance in the matter you will have the gratitude of the people through all the northern part of the territory we wb can place depend ance on the mail mall whatever and wait with anxiety to hear what you have to say upon this really serious grievance respectfully GEO L FARRELL P if i ECHO CITY feb oth editor deseret news wems dear sir during the last few months it has been very difutt to get lett iett letters ers era any where near the time they should come the time of traveling between salt lake city and echo varies warnes from three to fifteen days which makes it very inconvenient for those expecting and sending letters if the dM difficulty culty existed beyond this point there would be room for excuse busei for occasionally trains are detained on account of the snow but from here down the track is open and it looks strang strange 6 that mails coming and going so short a distance should be so tardy many ati times es letters etters are lost occasionally the they arrive here for other parts and not onfre bently letters have to be returned fro from t the e eastern stations having been put in the wrong sacks it was hoped when the railroad rail bail road was completed our mails malls would be regular but on the contrary it is getting I 1 no better I 1 very fast even letters sent by private persons to the city and dropped in the letter ietter box are never heard from which seems strange for the benefit of the people on the weber an explanation concerning postal neglect or losses how and by what hat means they occur would be very heartily received so that no one will get unjustly censured CITIZEN |
