Show chamber pha U maer starts tight fig ht to retain reta n mail route arguments ants of uintah residents answered by price postmaster after discussing the action of uintah basin residents in fr brining ining an organization to work in the interests of changing charging the baan basa niall route headquarters from price to bait salt lake the directors of the chamber of commerce tuesday in strutted ted the legislative to prepare suitable resolutions pro testing against the transfer information compiled beveral ver year years ago showing the present route to be better than the pro posed new one is i on file at tit the chamber office and it was suggest d that the attention cf ef postal author atles be called to the data wt towns joining the organization which will probably bo be know known as the northeastern utah allied civic clyle clubs ares are heber city Fruit froitland land kedley keetley bonita rich land myton roosebelt Hoo Roo seU fort da chesne gusher guiller and vernal basin representatives ie de dared elated that mail 11 berrice ler ser vice rice cither either op crated by the government or private contractor would bo be faster and more certain in the winter months from salt lake than from price congressman don B colton said the matter would be one for exalus ive action by the post postoffice office de d apartment part ment arl said the petitions tor for a change be considered fully from a endpoint and point polut of improved str vice postmaster J P Blae macknight Knight net met with the directors and explained the economic value of the mail route to price he declared that the present service was unusually good and prevented pre rented several arguments in favor of continuance contin uince ince of the route from price his ills state statement menta in connection with irith the matter an ari for miny years ince has been and still is t t center of distribution widely to the southeast section of the state it is a quasi il for postoffice post office business embracing two government and six private privat cl operated m mill mul ul routes which serves 42 post offices con bained in a territory extending miles to the north and CO 60 miles to the south revenue nue of the price office exceeds pridu ill ant an I 1 the government operated ervick ets s dm dis tribute in payroll ad and for cost coa of open tion approximately monthly with a total of 21 men the present route wa was dinst lied on april 16 1919 to coperite be aveen helper and vernal the tile hei hell I 1 quarters being remones to Iso november vember of OF the sime veir in 1920 garages costira wire vue greeted erected at price aud alid Duclie sn in nil all the ears of operation the carriage carria e has varied laried from 11 tons to the tc present aver age of bf approximately five fie tons per day the reduction is due to con editions circumscribed by limitations of weight and size of pA parcels reels as against the unlimited size and mgt ig ight jy ly tr 1 balili til end the lower transportation rates of the latter never the lesz tho the anvern ment has hns regularly maintained a dependable adequate service on a basis of a ten hour truck haul baul be tween price and vernal ine luling all intermediate stops gilt it is clearly evident from past fast contract proposals that no private contractor handling freight pas seagers and mall mail can compete with the present operation in cost oi 01 efficiency for the reasons that the government pays rays no license or tax is not th arged nit a edvain brance of bons is usually able to secure supplies at reduced cost and is not encumbered with tit passenger or freight triffie an important com pinson between the present route and the change proposed recently to which refer ance is made that i better ice could be maintained bath win ter and summer is the gmt grit ference it in vie teatler went er expos c ure the maximum elevation elcia tion over oer indian cannon ane present route is feet with a 2 25 5 milo mile snow Oe elevation Nation and the road graded along the mountainside enabling easy and inexpensive removal of snow elides slides ind drifts average snowfall on the present route is compared comra red to 76 inches and a 32 mile snow eleia elevation tion on tho propos ed new route those rho ho desire a change hold to the oelton that mail service gi gives es prestige to highway maintien ance As primary roads must be maintained maintain ei better than secondary roads over which the nail mail now runs a change in the route may result in the abandonment of the route or at least may remit result in re deuced upkeep I 1 I 1 |