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Show PREE RURAL MAIL r 1 SERVICE PR0Gr.u'j WASHINGTON March 6,-The operations opera-tions of the rural free 'delivery service : up to March L 1908; are' shown ia.a state . went Issued today by; Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General Degraw. Up to that i . time 6127S petitions had been received. and referred. Of these, 13.772 were acted upon adversely. The number of routes ln op--cration March 1 waa 15,031. leaving W24 petitions still pending, of which 294 have teen assigned for establishment. 1 In connection with these figures " tha ctatement is made that, notwitbstandlag (he development of the service, ther Is ! an unexpended balance on hand to th : credit of the new establishment of $906.-108 $906.-108 from the appropriation of t2,S78,69t, which became available July 1, 1805, |