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Show ,1 Jl oo ;, I SANTA FE'S ESTIMATES jt COST OF EXPRESSAGE San FranciBco, Sept 8. Salaries of $ ticket agents and the cost of printing :; letterheads are Included In the A tents', son, Topeka and Santa Fe's estimates of the cost of handling express matter, mat-ter, according to testimony offered hero yesterday by the road's statistician, statisti-cian, Ainos Pcabo'dy, to the state railroad rail-road commission. Tho commissioners are investigating investigat-ing express rates, and the Santa Fa receives under -contract 55 per cent of tho gross earnings from express matter which it handles Tor Well-Far-go and company. It. is an interested party for this reason. Mr. Peabody submitted figures to show that in the month of January, 1910, ho road lost $1,755 by handling express matter, but tho commissioners demurred to the month selected, as coming Immediately after the Christ-as Christ-as rush, and also "to the method of computing expenses. Tho hearing was continued until Sept. 12. |