The Winslow mail., 1925-05-22
WORKING FOR
AIR MAIL FROM
BOTH ENDS OF


Following completion of the chain
OF airplane landing fields across
California, Arizona and New Mex
leo, the dedication of which route
occurred in Winslow last Saturday,
comes the announcement that Kan
sas Citys application for an air
mail route, direct from Chicago to
that city, by way of Moline, Ill,
was approved by the postmaster
general last Saturday afternoon.
Southern California is working
with might and main to get direct
air mail connection with eastern
points by way of Winslow and
Kansas City, and for that reason
gave hearty support to the laying
out of the fields along the Tri-State
route, and with the line of fields
complete from Southern California
to Albuquerque, will send Bob
Hausler, who supervised and
worked up sentiment for the Tri-
State route, to connect Albuquerque
and Kansas City, so that the line
will be complete from Los Angeles
to Chicago.
The application OF Kansas City
for air mail service was filed by
Postmaster William E.NMorton, of
that city, at the department Satur-
day morning and just before the
close Of the days business Col. Paul
Henderson, second assistant post
master general announced its ap-
proval. He stated that the date
upon which bids for the contract
would be received would be made
public probably within the next
two weeks.
Business men are greatly in
terested in the fastest possible
transportation of mail to New York
and other points east" said Post
master Morton of Kansas City. THE
establishment of the proposed route
will give Kansas City a direct air
mail line to Chicago, connecting
there with the government trans
continental planes. 1t also will
provide a base or trunk line serv-
ice which will attract air mail
from Kansas Citys' trade territory
in the great west and southwest
and eventually will result in exten-
sion of air mail routes to Kansas
City from that territory, thus COM
pleting the system.
"Questionnaires sent out recently
by the Kansas City Chamber of
Commerce brought responses from
a comparatively small percentage
of large users of the mails, but
these showed that there would be
at the beginning not less than
twenty-three thousand pounds of
mail dispatched annually over the
air route and not less than eight
cen thousand pounds received an
by the mail houses that re-
sponded to the QUESTIONABLE.
Obviously it is impossible to es-
innate accurately the volume OF
mail that would be handled over
the route, but it is my opinion that
the tonnage will increase rapidly
after the air route has been estab-
lished and it has been demonstrated
that dependable and satisfactory
service can be maintained from day
to day"
In approving the application.
postoffice department officials took
account of the large volume of
postal business at Kansas City. The
records show that re-
Gently Kansas City has had the
largest amount of such business per
capita of any city in the country
The officials at Washington spoke
highly of the public spirit shown
by Kansas City in its efforts to OBJ
tain the air mail service.
The date upon which the depart
ment will receive bids for the air
mail contract probably will be an
nounced by Colonel Henderson in
Kansas City. He will be there to
deliver an address at the conven-
ion of the Tri-State Postmasters'
May % and %.
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