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a:Increased Mail Service.** Washington, December 38.—'The I Postoffice Department to day issued k- orders increasing the mail service Iwj-u-l tween Fort Worth, Texas, and Fort v* Concho, New Mexico, From sue times d* la week to daily, and allowing $ 13,000 ft [per annum additional pay. The pres-;^ ent service, which costs $78,0(10 per,^ year, corresponds precisely with the — number of mails that are conveyed bv *l the Texas Pacific railroad to and from 1 Fort Worth, and some curiosity is ex-1 n pressed both In regard to the necessity a for the increased inland service and as ft to how much of the recent half mil-134 (lion appropriation will be left for the [t‘ establishment of entirely new service 81 where mail facilities are urgently need.ed, if suc h large portions coniinui fn(‘■ bo distributed to swell the profits of old contractor*. The Department in* kU tends to have the mails carried between Fort Worth and Yuma. Arizona, under IO y one contract during the next four years j term, instead of. a* at present, four con-1 Vr tracts, one of which extends from Me- j w isilla. New Mex ico, to San Diego. The T! P present pay for the service between 1 Fort Worth and Yuma aggregates *; $331,000 per annum, and the advertise-u menl for the new contract requires iV that each bid shall be accompanied by L ?r a ln»nd t«r $340,000 and a certified [check for $16,000 as security againstIII failure to execute the contract and ,e commence service. Blddci# for thisroute are therefore not likely to beIV very numerous.Southern Pacific. ]S ... _____
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Tucson Arizona Citizen
Tucson, Arizona, US
Fri, Jan 04, 1878
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