Show IS S P P. P 0 O. O DEPARTMENT GETTING COLD FEET Report leport Iten Reaches hes Myton This Afternoon Afternoon After After- noon That Contract Ver cr nal Mail Will wm Again be Let Letto Letto Letto to LO Lowest LOest est Bidder n nAt At t press time this afternoon word comes conies from Salt Lake that Uncle Sain Sam may abandon the idea of carryIng carryIng carrying carry carry- ing the mail mafI Into the Uintah basin baste I and ind again advertise for bids Ira Dawson representing Fourth assistant postmaster general is said to have been called to Salt Lake to meet Davidson special representative represents represents- enta- enta tive from Washington sent In to In Investigate investigate In- In conditions Since last N New NV V year day the postoffice postoffice post- post office department has been so balled balled ball ed up In this matter that the proverbial proverbial pro pro pro- Philadelphia lawyer would be beup beup up a stump to find h heads ds or 01 tails tans to it lit Finally a caravan of empty trucks left Helper and they were on the road more than a week between that town and Duchesne It Is said that at one time 20 horses were trying trying try try- ing lug to pull a truck out of at the mud on Colton summit The road at this time Is almost Impassable even for a alight alight alight light rig let alone an auto Even t I A. A M. M Murdock admits that he never never saw It In such bad condition When Al makes such a confession It sure Js 18 s bad depend on that Harden Bennion secretary state and member of state road commission commissIon commission commis commis- sion last week made a trip over the Helper road coming In and over the Myton Price road going out Let him tell you wha what he found Here Is his Interview In last Sundays Sunday's Herald The Helper-Duchesne Helper road said Secretary Bennion Is In bad condition condl- condl tion and it will be several weeks b be be- It fore-It can be put In order This Tills faa Is fa Isa Isa a sl po pos route and the government has haa jiow fOW on the road seven t trucks tracks and r reveral r- r e several everal more mare will be put In commis- commis sl sign slon n as soon as bodies are built for them These trucks are Intended for mail mall and parcel post Between Duchesne and Myton a a A surveying party Is at work straightening I straight straight- t ening out the road I On the Myton Price road E. E C C. C i iLee Lee Is In charge of a party of ot men and twenty teams on work In Gate canyon canyon canyon can can- yon and are getting it In fine s shape ape Heavy traffic can now be moved over that part of the road Another gan ganis gang gangis is working on the new road from the mouth of Soldier canyon connecting up the Sunnyside road four miles east of Wellington This road which Is new Increases the distance from Soldier canyon to Price by about seven seven sev sev- en miles mUes but the Improved grades and roadbed offset the added mile mUo age All traffic Is now going over this road We left Roosevelt at 9 a a. a m m. m and came along along- at fair speed and reached reach reach- ed Price without any effort at I o'clock the same same evening 0 |