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Show POSTAL QUOTES NEW H TELEPHONE RATES SAN FRANCISCO. Dec 22. Con-firmntioii Con-firmntioii was given today to reports that the Postal Telegraph company II would enter the telephone field. Prep- Hfl arations, it is said, wore begun six months ago, for this service, by the leasing of wires or agreements for an . exchange of traffic' with independent BH companies oporating on the Pacific IH coast. Radical reduction: from present rates are planned, according to tho WBm Postal officials. B From San Francisco to Sarramentn HB the rate "will be 25 cents for ten min- WM utes; from San Francisco to Rcuo, ,")i BB cents for first minute: from San BBj Francisco to Salt Lake City, -fl.50 for BB five minutes. From Salt Lfike to Reno BB tho charges will be il for the first BB minute; from Salt Lake to Sacra- BS men to, BB J. G. Blake, general superintendent BB for the Pacific division ot the Postal BB company, stated today that the com- BB pnny's plans for telephone service BB throughout tho coast region were rap- idly nearing completion and that the WM Services would be inaugurated at an BB carl)- date. BB |