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Show 00 Trucks Carry Mail to Vernal The large-t tnvernment operate mail-motor route in the United States Is between Helper and Vernal. Utiih in the Uintah basin district, icronldi;-r to word from ti e railway nml offir.- On that division approximately 2u trucks are in operation and five mor have been received waiting 10 bp assembled as-sembled before starting on 'ho run. W H. Taylor, chief clerk af the railway mail service, said about twenty mr are employed en the Helper-Vernal route, all ex. service men, the distance betwen th two siatlons Is 114 miles. An average of 15f0 pounds Is hau'ert daily on that road and during the pi.r twenty days 37,446 pounds of flrst-class, flrst-class, parcel not and perishable mai1 has traversed that section, .ays Tay lor. From right '0 ten trucks loaded to capacity leave Mflper each dnv bounn for Vernal and Intermediate points, and enough mail arrives everv otlu-r day for trucks to make each Individual town after leaving Helper, it former ly required eight or nine days xi reach Vernal, now D. & R. O. No. 4 leaves Ogden at 5'."0 a. m.. arrives at Helper at 1:40 p. m anil Immediately upon the trains arrival all mall is transferred trans-ferred to the trucks and departs for Vernal reaching there on the same day. |