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Show Railroad Notes. A. T. Trotter, traveling agent out of .Denver Sox the Mallorv steamship lines, Is a visitor In Salt Lake. It Is announced, that after November '24 the Chicago. Milwaukee A St Paul will no longer make throuph freight rates on Oriental truffle. It will follow the policy of other transcontinental lines In exacting exact-ing the same revenue on traffic moving to tho Orient that Is charged on traffic for Paclllc coast points. Tho Grand Trunk Pacific, now open to Edmonton, about S00 miles west 01 Winnipeg, Win-nipeg, ran a special train for newspaper men over this distance last week Irt twenty-three hours, equal to nearly thirty-five miles an hour. It Is said tha't the establishment of regular through passenger pas-senger trains ,to Edmonton will be deferred de-ferred until spring, because the lino is not all fenced, and the railway commission commis-sion of Canada will not consent to tho running of trains at full speed until the fences shall havo boen. put up. The Union Pacific has applied to tho United States, through tho local land office, for permission to change Its right of way through parts of Weber and Morgan Mor-gan counties for about seven miles. This will glvo the road a better grado down Wcbor canyon, nnd Is part of the move in tho Farmington cut-oft from Echo Into Salt Lake, as has been fully explained In Tho Tribune The official papers were filed at 2 p. m. Thursday, January 3. |