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Show CliKAi' Ti.i.EOUAl'iUNi;. Telegraphing Tele-graphing from being a luxury in correspondence corres-pondence in which none but the rich could indulge, is lii.-t beeoniinr a necessity ne-cessity within the reach of all. It i not long since it cost five or six dollars to send the simplest message cast or west indeed it is not so long since the pony express was in full feather and was a wonder in the transmi-siou of news yet we see by the new telegraph tele-graph tariff of- the We-tern Union Company that a dispatch can to-day, be sent from this city to San Franci.-co for seventy-five cents. This is probably the cheapest telegraphing in the world, distance., difficulties of maintaining the lines, and prevailing prices in other respects compared. A dispatch can be sent either to Ogden, Corinne or Elko for twenty-five cents by the same line, a reduction that will hardly fail to startle the public. Between this city and Reno, Toano, or Virginia City, Nevada, the tariff for ten woids is fifty cents ; while seventy five cents will pay for its transmission to San Francisco, Sacramento, Oakland, Ma-rysville Ma-rysville and other points in California. We had to look twice at the printed tariff handed in by Mr. Croxall, of the Wes em Union line, before accepting the figures as correct. |