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Show PACIFIC LINES GET . OOVESNMENT CONTEACTS. CHICAGO, March 11. After a sharp competition between the transcontinental lines, the Government contract for carrying carry-ing United 8tates naval officers and men to and from San Francisco was awarded yesterday to the Union Pacific and Southern South-ern Pacifle railroads west of the Missouri river. Their bid, which was submitted by the Southern Pacific, amounts to about a Quarter of a cent a mile for each passenger passen-ger to be carried under the contract. Under the bids of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacifle, the rate Is to be (5 for each man from Chicago to Ogden and $18 in cash and credits from Ogden to 8an Francisco. This is a reduction from about $32, the rate made last year. The bid of the successful roads amounts to $23 from Chicago to the coast and that of the Rock Island would have amounted to about $28. |