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Show The announcement has been made by SouthernPacinc officials that skirting skirt-ing today, the shops of that companv will be operated six days a week on the nine-hour schedule, instead of five days a week on the eight-hour schedule, sched-ule, as has been the case for several months past. While the force of men will not be increased at present, the" change nevertheless means much to this city, as the payroll of the present force will be materially fattened by the increased in-creased working time This appears to be the tirst real showing in the way of an expenditure of the recent appropriation for this point. As the expenditures, on rolling Block Is guaged more or less bv the dividends from the trnffic end o'f the system, this change for the better would seem to Indicate an improvement improve-ment in the general business of the road. |