Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-30
SAVES TWENTY-fOUR HOURS
Pos.master General Makes Statement
About Effeo. of New all Train.
GREAT BENEFIT TO COAST CITIES
Mail Leaving New York Early
Monday Morning Reaches
san Francisco Thursday
at Noon.

WASHINGTON, Dec 2g-Postmaster
General Cortelyou today announced what,
from a postal standpoint, is regarded as
one Of the most important changes in rail
way mail schedules that has occurred in
many years, Affecting all points in the
east having business with points west of
the Mississippi river. II becomes enec-
tive December 81. A change of the schod-
ule on the Union Pacific railroad between
Omaha and ogden, Utah, and the South
ern Pacific, between Ogden and San Fran
cisco, with supplemental changes on the
Chicago, Burlington 4 quincy and Chi
caRo q Northwestern railroads, between
Chicago and Omaha. reduces the time of
mail in transit between New York and
San Francisco westbound and between the
same points eastbound practically twenty
four hours.
Heretofore mail leaving New York at
3:l5 a. m. Monday and Chicago at 2:45 a.
IN. Tuesday reached Ogden 3:45 a. m. Thurs
day and San Francisco at l2:4S noon Fri
day. Under the new schedule this mail
will reach ogden at p. M Wednesday
and San Francisco 1870 noon Thursday.
Eastbound under the old schedule mail
leaving San Francisco at p. m. Monday
passed Ogden at p. m. Wednesday, Oma-
ia = r. III uui Shhs iN"Ni'ihS N'''N'cN
2:2O a. m Friday and New York a. m
Saturday. Under the new schedule, the
mail leaving San. Francisco g p. m. Mon
day passes Omaha at 1915 p m. Wednes-
day. Chicago 1890 a. M Thursday, arriv-
ing at New York at 11:I3 Friday a. M
business day is saved each way.
Direct connection is made from this train
with u train from Green River, via Poca-
tello and Huntington to Portland, expe-
diting mail for Oregon, Washington and
Idaho twelve hours. Connection Is also
made with tho San Pedro Los Angeles &
Salt Lake Railroad, putting mail into Los
Angeles at 4:45 p, nj.
Plant Industry bureau.
The activity of the bureau of plant in
dustry of the department of agriculture in
its efforts to improve agricultural condl-
lions throughout the United States is set
forth in the annual report of the director
of the bureau DR.. B. T. Galloway.
Cooperative work with the agricultural
experiment stations of the several states
and territories has been extended. School
garden work has been assisted in many
ways, and 10000 packets of seeds have
been supplied to schools. The work on
cotton has included the conducting OF
demonstration and. diversiication farms
and breeding to secure early and weevil-
resistant types. Single germ beet sugar
seed will soon be produced in quantities
sufficient for field demonstrations New
varieties of hardy oranges new pineapples
and new grades of cotton and corn have
been developed in the laboratory of plant
breeding. Valuable strains of tobacco
have been obtained by hybridization. L
has been shown that heavy seed produce.
better plants than light seed.
The growing of winter wheat has beer
extended i'm the southern portions of Nortl
Dakota and Minnesota and new cereals
adapted to the southern states have beer
developed.
new date garden has been established
at Yuma, A, T., especially for the cultiva
ton of varieties from the Persian gulf
The planting of grasses as sand binder
has produced important reults.
At the seed laboratory 1854 termination
tests and LAS tests for mechanical puiit,