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Show PARCELS POST IS f PUZZLE TO MftNY i (JltAND JVNCTIOV Ht'HIMS MIA ' (jirr Tin: iiisrr '' ,T ' 4 Vernal Mcrt hunts Will IK' l'"" '" , liny AI Silt Ike Hr ' ili' , lion Willi the Uholcnh rs of Cl-of Cl-of Neighboring Slnte"rintnlT Points Token from the Scnim! 'Aone. HALT lKK CITY Aug 31 Pnr-,el Pnr-,el p..t mall will cost 13 OS per hun-dred hun-dred pounds for deliver to ernal after af-ter Heptember 1st. Imtend of II 0 This Is beewuse of n ruling made b) Postmaster Oenernl llurlesotj on Jul) 1 1th, which places localities more than three hundred miles distant from the sending office In the third tone so fur ns rates are concerned The mod-lflng mod-lflng clause reads, except where the distance b shortest regular mail route fi.ini the office of origin to the of (he of deliver) Is over lliree hundred hun-dred miles or more. In which inse the rates of iMwtnge shall be six cents for the first iMMind or fraction of n Hund slid two cents for each Hildltlntial IMiiind or fraction" Much jrtel Is llmlteil to flft) iioiinds. This Is the rate of the third xone The ihnnge In tho rate will lie of vital Interest to wholesale dealers of Halt l.ake Cll. Ogden nnd Provo ns well ns to Vernal merchants and residents, resi-dents, who have been getting merchandise mer-chandise nnd other supplies from Halt Ijike Cll Ogden nnd Provo b) means of parcel post It costs Cm 1c Ham three dollars n hundredweight to put tho goods Into Vernnt. exclusive of what Is paid to the railroad this lie-cause lie-cause of the high singe rates from Watson to Vernal. Kven nt 13 08 Uncle Un-cle Ham stands to lose money Hut nt this rate Clrnnd Junction, Colo, hns nn ndViintuge over Halt t-oke Clt), as It remains In the second tone from Vernal, with the result that the rale for delivery at Vernal from tho Colo-rado Colo-rado point Is to be one dollar less n hundred thnn the rate from Halt l-uke City The letter mall Is routed through Helper nt present, nnd should the imrcel post mall be routed through Helper Instead of Mntk, Vernal would stilt be In the second xone thnt Is within the Ihne hundred mile limit set In the latest ruling Unless some special nitlnii Is tnkcti before Heptember Heptem-ber 1st the rate to Vernal will bo In- reused on that date according to the terms of the ruling Whether nny adjustment ad-justment tan le made Is to be determined deter-mined In the meantime Vernnl residents hurdly relish lowing to pa) more for deliver) of goods from the capital or their own stutc thnn they do from n town In un adjoining stnle when both nre within the same xone so fnr ns uctual distance Is concerned |
