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Show CEDAR CITY'S POST OFFICE ONE of the crying needs of Cedar City is for a larger and more commodious post-office. The present quarters are entirely inadequate, both J from the view of the postmaster and the patrons of the office. Cedar City is a distributing station for practically all of Iron and Washington counties. The j local mail is especially heavy, and there is a serious shortage of boxes and other accommodations. The work room behind the screen is small and inconveniently inconven-iently arranged and much of the time is so piled and cluttered up with parcel post mail that there is scarcely scarce-ly room to turn around in it. This necessitates the stacking of much mail in the lobby and on the sidewalk side-walk which is not afforded the protection that it is supposed to receive, and makes it very inconvenient for mail contractors, who are required to be on the spot to meet delayed mails and receive their loads largely direct from the incoming trucks, because there is no other place to unload it. I he postmaster has recognized this necessity for some time and has repeatedly tried to obtain proposals pro-posals from local people for the furnishing of suitable suit-able quarters at a figure the government would consent con-sent to pay. but up to the present time has failed to obain such a proposal. What Cedar City really needs and what the conditions condi-tions warrant is a Federal building here to take care of the post office at this junction point, to house the Forest Ser ice department, the county agent and such other business and officials as the governmet has an interest in. Some months ago a bill was introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Welling of this district, appropriating $7,500 for the purchase of a site in Cedar City for a Federal building. We have heard nothing further in regard to the matter, but we surmise that if it ever gets favorable action there will have to be a lot of activity on the part of local people, for such favors are not crowded upon any community. We suggest that the Commercial club and other organizations bring as much pressure to bear as possible upon the matter to obtain favorable action by Congress. In the mean time, we understand that there is a possibility of some relief from other directions. Bids for the furnishing of suitable quarters for the post-office post-office have been submitted by the Bank of Southern Utah for the use of the quarters now occupied by the bank, when they have erected their contemplated new building. It is also reported that T. A. Thorley contemplates the erection of a large modern business block on the ground south of his theatre, and that he, too, has submitted a proposal to furnish quarters for the post-office. We trust that some of these plans may ripen during dur-ing the present year and that the post-office will not be compelled to spend another winter in the inconvenient incon-venient quarters now occupied. Sfe |