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Show j KHI1 OP MAILS II TO BEGIS AT THE V HIM S ; ' S ' Chief Clerk W. F. Bangasser, of the Railway mall service, has return- y ed from Salt Lake City, where he ' spent two or three days on business 'Q ' connected with his department. e, I Everything is now in readiness for y, the weighing of malls in this district, P' which Is known as District 1 of the rv ;( "H" division. In addition to Utah, Q; j tho district includes Nevada and is ) bounded on the north by Butte, ai Mont., and on the east by Grand X-'l j Junction, Colo. '. The weighing of the mails will e!j ' probably begin on Monday, February to; 16, under the direction of the chief r":j "y clerk. The work will continue for :J 105 days and 22 men will be employ ) -fi ed. Tho men are all listed and 1 ; awaiting the call from the Ogden of- t , flee. There will be three employed 1 '; at the weighing station at the Ogden Union depot. This station has just - jj been completed and tho large plat- ; i? form scales Installed. There will be one man employed at the Denver & A Rio Grande and one nt the Oregon '5j Short Line stations in Salt Lake City 1 ; and the other 17 will work on the l trains. Three men in Ogden against m two in Salt Lake gives an idea of the J ' greater importance of Ogden as a dis- ' M r tributing center for tho mails. Most of the clerks who will be i used in the work of weighing will be CS) experienced; the experience having Deett E ied while working as substl- tutes. |