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Show I THE NEW MAIL CONTRACT LET. I " Route from St. George to Lund I Will Go Into Effect on L First of June. 11,. ' BARTON & LAMOREAUX GET THE CONTRACT h& Change Insures an Earlier and Better Y Mall Service for Eastern Part of Washington County. S' Tho suspense and uncertainty that j. has enveloped the action of the post offico department in relation to the L, . ' bids submitted prior to April 13th for W- tho performance of automobile mail service on the proposed new route be- P tween St. George and Lund, was brok- 8 en last Tuesday when communications hP were received nl the various post of- t- flees affected by the change, to tho 11 effect that the contract had been EL' awarded to Messrs. S. A. Barton and WW Andrew L. Lamoreaux, formerly of F , Paragonah, but now of Panguitch. It , & h understood that their bid was for j T $10,800, or nearly $4,000 less thon ' their nearest competitor. One of the 1 L bids submitted in response to tho ad- vertisement wob for practically $19,- ' L ooo. ? Service on the new route is to com-" com-" mence on June 1 next, and will termi- . nate with all other star route contracts con-tracts on Juno 30, 1918. . Ten hours time is allowed each way Hfe- between terminals, which will include HL all Btops at post offices along the HeP1' - 'route, when the road conditions are p such as to permit of the use -of auto-MY auto-MY '.," mobiles. At other times, 20 hours are Hsr' 'allowed in which to make the trip. Wto - This time will call for pneumatic- ' MR?"-' tired automobiles or auto-trucks, as kKIUv no other kind of vehicles, with the &$f! exception of air- ships, would permit , , i'.- of making the required time. p. The new service will bo a boon to J$' the people of eastern Washington "l, t county in more ways than one. Be- f. fef aides giving them their mail from i Ei one to three days earlier than under K 'i il i. ,.,f 5f will nnnn I the present arrangement, it will open $ to them a market for a considerable y, quantity of their fruits and early ' L vegetables, and it is impossible at this f time to estimate to what extent this traffic may be developed. It is cer-.,- tain, however, o be utijized to quite an extent by the people of Dixie. It WJjl also prove a very grcnt cgnven- . jonce to the people of Iron county, 4 , who will thus bo entitled to get tho , products of semi-tropical Dixio dollv-' dollv-' j ' red at thoir respective post offices 1 within a few hours of tho time they f , aro plucked from the tree or vine, J 1$. ' and carried on pneumatic-tired veil ve-il Z'q hides, they should arrive at their des-1 des-1 f tination in flrst-class condition. a ? The value of this service to all this t district of country can scarcely be 9 over-estimated, and ns a daily auto-M auto-M ',' mobile service has been provided for betw.een Enterprise and Modena, with M' connection between that place and St. 9 N George and other contiguous settle- i j x ments, no one should suffer mater-9 mater-9 ially by the change. h According to the people of Entcr-9 Entcr-9 S' prise, however, the thricc-a-wcek ser-9 ser-9 a, vice, via tho Clara Creek, is not at 9 V all satisfactory, and the people of 9 i(f v that section should betition for a good mm daily service between them and the K l county seat, over tho most advantng-H advantng-H v ' cous vouQ. At the price tho dopart-S dopart-S merit 1ms' let the' route from Saint ul ' . t i.. T .....1 It nii ivoll nfTnril tn m ' George to Lund, it can wen niioru 10 'm put a couple of thousand dollars more m " on the St. George and Enterprise M route, giving the 'people practically m v the samo service ti&t they have been m S& receiving, with the exception that the U T "" principal mail for St. Gcorgo will bo ' . routed via Lund instead of Modena. |