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Show SPEED CONTE&TS CEASE. Annual Mail Earnings of Transcontinental Transconti-nental Roads. Western railroads hav ceased their strlfo for mall contracts which cauned them to enUr upon recprd-brcaklntr speod contest. At present the Burllnnton-Unlon Pacific-Southern Pacific-Southern Pacific route la tho larccut In transcontinental trans-continental mall carrying, so far ili ihu San Kranclxo service Is concerned, and this Is tho lnrgest part of tho business. The southern California Cal-ifornia malls nxo divided between the Santa Fc, tho Itc-ck Island-Southern Pacific nnd the lines from Chicago to Omaha, pIum tho Union Pacific. Tho annual mall earnings of tho transcon-tlncntnl transcon-tlncntnl roads which mako up tho various routes ara as foIloWH: Burlington. Chicago to Omaha, TSo9,K7; Vnlon Pacific. Omaha to Ogdcn, J1.323.SC5 Southern Pacific, Otrdcn to San Fmnclsco. S12,307; Itock Island, Chicago to El Paso, HKsSTC; Southern Pacific. El Paso to tho coast, $167."GI; Santa Fe, Chicago to Los Angeles. $1,031,312; Northwestern, Chicago to Omaha, jm.TSl. |