The San Francisco call., 1910-03-07
FIRST OF DELAYED
MAIL REACHES CITY
Forty-seven Tons of Letters
Due Wednesday Forwarded
by Way OF Portland
Chicago and Kansas City Bags
Come Over Santa Fe and
Rock Island

The first lot of eastern mail to reach
San Francisco in several days arrived
here yesterday morning at IL o'clock
1t was one full eastern mail weighing
~ tons, and was due here at 10:0S a. m.
last Wednesday, but the delay was oc-
casioned by diverting the mail through
Portland because of the washouts in
central Nevada. Two carloads more ar
| rived last night from the north on
| train No. II.
THE mail Is still being diverted by
way of Portland" said A. II. Stephens
superintendent of the railway mail
service, yesterday, and will continue
to arrive in San Francisco at intervals
of about "a hours. In addition to this
direct letter mails for San Francisco
| from Chicago and Kansas City are be-
ing diverted to the Santa Fe and to the
Southern Pacific and Rock Island lines
DIVERSION CAUSES DELAY
THE first of these diverted mails
should reach San Francisco Monday
morning at s o'clock. They will con-
| tinue to arrive here at intervals OF "A
|
| ice of the Ogden and San Francisco
| line.
Eastbound mails are being diverted
! to the Santa Fe and the Southern "a
| cific lines, to go east by way of Albu-
! querque and Ell Paso
I'VE are losing from 2 " to IL hours
| on mail diverted to the southern lines
and nearly two days on mail diverted
| to the northern route. While yester-
days mail consisted of letters as well
as papers, the remaining mails diverted
! over the northern route will consist of
| heavy papers, while all letter mails will
be diverted over the southern lines
Extra duty is being required of all
railway mail clerks to handle the con-
gested mail. The entire force of clerks
| in the local postoffice was also on hand
yesterday to handle the first mail to ar
rive from the east in several days. The
| railroad officials are promising to have
the Ogden route open again in two or
three days.
LOCAL SERVICE MAINTAINED
| Local service is being maintained be-
| tween San Francisco and Battle Noun
! tain, New, and between ogden and Car
lin, New. Should the gap be reduced to
a short distance the postal authorities
probably will arrange to have the mail
moved across the gap in wagons until
the road Is again inaoperation-
The service between San. Francisco
and Goldfield and Tonopah has not been
interrupted by the washouts. The
branch lines from Battle Mountain to
Austin, New, and from Palisades to
Eureka. New. are both out of commits
sion, with no definite assurance as to
when they will again be placed in oper-
alton.
Delayed Trains Reach Ogden
| OGDEN, Utah, March 6.-Trains from
| San Francisco carrying hundreds of
passengers, many of whom had been
delayed 10 days on their eastward jour-
ney, reached Ogden at intervals today,
the first arriving at 4 o'clock this
morning. This was the overland linn
/ tied, which left San Francisco for the
east more than a week ago, but was
forced by washouts in Nevada to re-
/ turn to Sacramento, from which point
! 1t was rerouted to Portland and thence
to Ogden. Delayed mail and baggage
were also part of the trains burden.
Other trains continued to reach Og
den over the Oregon Short Line this
| evening and officials in answer to re-
| ports that further flood damage oc-
| CURED Saturday gave assurance that
| the line was open for travel, but ex-
planned it was heavily overburdened by
the unusual travel and that they could
| not guarantee close schedule time.
| Although full week has elapsed
since the first of the washouts brought
| disaster to the Southern Pacific trans
| continental line, officials tonight are
| unable to promise when the direct line
! will be able to resume travel 1t will
take seven or eight days at least, they
say, to repair the damage in Palisade
| canyon. Stub trains are still in op-
Grafton between this city and Carlin
and reports tonight indicate that fur
ther floods are no longer considered a
| factor.
Mail from California points which
was posted February 26 reached here
/ Saturday. and the mail which arrived
| today had been delayed fully as long.
! The floods have interfered to great
extent with government mail weighing
| at this point.