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Show up-to-date mail car3 carry It to Ne-nana, Ne-nana, dog teams and river steamers take It to Iditarod, auto trucks distribute dis-tribute It to out-of-the-way places and fleet-footed reindeer assist in hurrying letters to Nome, St. Michael and Golivin. Now seaplanes are soon to take their place in the service to coast towns. Leaving Seattle, mail for interior Alaska Is carried to Seward by steamship. steam-ship. At that point It Is transferred to the railroad which takes it to Ne-nana, Ne-nana, 300 miles inland. This takes nine days from Seattle. At Nenana the mall is made up for the mining and trading camps. In spite of improvement, the old obstacles of ice and snow, whirling rapids, glacier-crusted mountains, storms and mosquitoes wage their fight against the mail carriers, who make their deliveries with remarkable regularity. Liners and Reindeer Carry Mail to Alaska Seattle, Wash. The Alaskan mail service stands alone In the annals of postal deliveries in that It uses virtually virtu-ally every type of transportation. Ocean liners take the mail to Seward, |