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Show . . Mill - VA A IS Marysvale Again io Be R. R. Terminal Mail Route to Kanab Over Highway 89 That the D. & R. G. Western Railroad Company, if assured of the mail contract for which bids will be asked again next June, is not only to restore the passenger train to Marysvale but will have a fast train leaving Salt Lake City about six o'clock in the morning and arriving ar-riving in Marysvale before twelve o'clock in order to make it possible that mail for Kanab leaving on this fast train can be delivered in Kanab Kan-ab that same afternoon, was the welcome news made public at a meeting of the Kanab Lions club held Monday evening. Delegates from Lions and commercial clubs along the federal aid highway No. 89 from Gunnison in the north to Orderville in the south were present pres-ent at the meeting, which had been originally called to boost highway No. 89. Present at the meeting were W. H. Cherry, publisher of tho Gunnison Valley News and the Sa-lina Sa-lina Sun; President A. J. Lewis of the Salina Lions club; J. Milton Olsen, president of the Richfield Lions club; V. A. Malmsten, president presi-dent of the Richfield Commercial club, with W. L. Warner, Ferdinand Ericksen, H. T. Martines and Dr. M. Markus of Richfield; J. W. Robinson, Rob-inson, L. O. Boone, C. A. Shelton jmd Patrick T. Henry of Marysvale; Fred Bruhn, Dr. Crandall, A. G. Johnson, James T. Daly, Jr., and O. Henrie of Panguitch; Gilbert R. Beebe and N. Larsen of Junction; Chas. R. Dalton and V. R. Johnson John-son of Circleville; M. Barnhurst of Hatch and Representative Esplin of Orderville. F. M. Fowler, superintendent of schools of the Kane district and president of the Kanab Lions club presided at the meeting. Representative Repre-sentative Esplin gave a concise report re-port of the tax legislation completed com-pleted by the special session of the " state legislature, culminating In the adoption of resolutions submitting to the people at the November elections elec-tions certain constitutional amendments amend-ments to make an equalization of tax burdens possible. The rest of the evening was spent in discussing the routing of mail to Kanab, and a concerted effort to boost highway No. 89. J. W. Robinson, Rob-inson, Fred. Bruhn and Ferdinand EricKsen were the main speakers. Mr. Robinson and Mi-. Bruhn have just returned from conferences in Salt Lake City with high officials of the D. R. G. Western Railroad company, and in Ogden with Wilford Wil-ford Danvers, superintendent of mail. They reported that the railroad rail-road company, if assured of receiving receiv-ing the mail contract, will run a fast mail train to Marysvale every morning morn-ing in order that the mall to aU points south of Marysvale, Including Includ-ing Kanab, can be delivered the same afternoon, and that Mr. Danvers Dan-vers had said if the railroad company com-pany would run such a train there would be no necessity of routing the Kanab mail from Cedar City via Mt. Carmel. There would, however, how-ever, be a route established, bringing bring-ing the mall fiom the west of Ce-dnr Ce-dnr City to Mt. Carmel where It then could be picked up by the trucks or busses going to Orderville Order-ville and Kana'o. In this way the Kanab people would have ideul mail connections. These reports were received with a great deal of satisfaction and without passing any resolutions, tho members of the Kanab Lions club to a man, expressed themselves as being boosters for highway No. 89. Part of the discussion following centered around ways and means to properly adverse highway 89. also al-so known as the Grand Canyon highway. A motion finally carried ti appoint a committee with Fred Bruhn as chairman and Dr. M. Mar kus end F. M. Fowler as members, this committee to appoint additional addition-al members from all civic organizations organiz-ations along the Grand Caryoi: highway from Mt. Pleasant in th North to Kanali in the South, and to start an advertising campaign for this highway in connection with the Southern California Automobile as-socialon as-socialon which has headquarters in Los Angeles. J. W. Robinson was appointed chairmn of a committee to be selected se-lected by him ; the duty of this committee com-mittee to be to seek equalization of the gasoline price which at the present pres-ent time, without any Justification, is 3 cents higher along the Grand Canyon highway than along the western route. The meeting was enthusiastic and harmouious, and will undoubtedly bring good results. The Reaper. |