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Show SLOW MAIL SERVICE. A writer in a morning daily paper complains of poor mail service between Salt Lake and St. Thomas, Nev. The letter itself was six days in transit from St. Thomas to Salt Lake. From St. Thomas to Overton, eight miles, the mail is carried car-ried by pony service, and from Overton to Moapa, the railroad station, fourteen miles, by stage. Explaining Ex-plaining the slow transition, our contemporary i says : This stretch of twenty-two miles it would seem I to be easy to cover in three hours. But Overton is the distributing point for all the postoffices of the district, including that of St. George, Utah. Our correspondent complains that the distributing postmaster at Overton holds the St. Thomas mail forty-eight hours so that it is at least three, days covering the twenty-two miles of road; that a letter let-ter leaving Salt Lake City on Saturday lies over at Moapa until Tuesday, is held at Overton two days and arrives at St. Thomas on Thursday night." This is not as slow as the service rendered In Salt Lake. The Intermountain Catholic, published on Friday morning in time for the early mails, does not reach many of its subscribers till Monday or Tuesday, and very often not at all. Last week copies of the paper properly addressed to Denver were returned to the Intermountain Catholic letter box. A subscriber in San Francisco writes: "I do not get my paper till Thursday." The matter has been reported to the postoffice authorities months ago regarding the city delivery, which should take place on Friday, and the only explanation offered was "that there was not sufficient help, and carriers car-riers who worked overtime would be fined." Complaints Com-plaints from our city subscribers come every week. |