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Show AGENTS ARE TO SETTLE CLAIMS For the purpose of expediting business busi-ness and getting closer to its customers custom-ers through Its local representatives, the Southern Pacific company has Issued Is-sued orders to many of Ub agents at the principal stations along the route giving them authority to settle direct with consignees on ordinary loss and damage claims. At the present time tho authority is extended only to cor- taia agents in the more thickly set- j tied territory. Claims for shortage and damage over which thero is no dispute and which do not exceed a given amount can now bo settled with. In a day or so after they have been ! filed With the ngcnL I Much correspondence is saved and I the delay that formerly resulted while ! tho claims were being gone over in the general offices of tho company in San Francisco is now eliminated. This move is only one of a number recently Inaugurated by tho Southern Pacific company. |