Show CONTRACTS LET LETON UN ON MAIL SERVICE COAST BIDDER GETS ROUTE BETWEEN BETWEEN BE BE- TWEEN SALT LAKE CITY AND LOS ANGELES Air Fields Must Be Provided In Many Western Cities In Order To Comply With Government Request Washington D D. D C. C Contract C.-Contract Contract air ail mail snail service between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles probably will begin operation about the first of January contract for this route having been awarded the Western Air Express Inc of Las Angeles which proposed to handle the mail on the basis of four-fifths four of the at attached ched postage or 8 cents centS' an ounce This bid was two thirds of a cent higher than the tho bid of the Ontario Air corporation corporation corporation corpor corpor- of Ontario Cal Cat but the Western West West- ern Air Express appeared to the department department department de de- to be the better equipped to the contract and on this ground rather than price the award was made There was a third bid on this route that of J. J J. J Murray of Culver City Cal CaI but this bid did not reach the department on time and was also short of fulfillment of some sonic other requirements requirements requirementS requirementS' re re- re- re laid down own by the depart depart- ment The Western Air Express proposes to use Douglas mail planes an and as assures assures assures as- as the department that the factory can begin delivery of planes within six weeks weekS' after the order is placed and from that time on deliver a plane every ten days Two planes will beall be beall beall all that will be in service at any anyone onetime one onetime time but at least three will be held in reserve One of the first things the contractors contractors contractors con con- tractors must now do is to provide suitable landing fields at Los LoS' Angeles Angeles An An- geles and Las Vegas Nev At Salt Lake City he will use the government air mail field Furthermore it willbe will willbe be necessary before beginning service service service ice to lay layout out a series of emergency I landing fields along the route The Los Angeles and Las Vegas fields I must meet with the of the department and they may either be acquired or lea leased ed by the contractor or may be donated by the respective e communities How they are acquired docs does not concern the government The d department also awarded contract contract con con- tract for the Pasco Elko-Boise-Pasco route to Walter Valter T. T Varney Varncy of San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco the only bidder who likewise will get 8 cents an ounce Varney Varncy is isto isto I to use four new swallow planes and must acquire landing fields at Boise and amI at Pasco He will use the government field at Elko his southern south south- I ern terminal |