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Show j Utah Central Fhf.kiht Business. j The following, freight passed over the Utah Central railroad lor the three weeks ending October ISth": Received Merchandise, 2,OS7;4oj I lb?.; lumber, 2,530,220; coal 2,032,500; j produce, 002,833; machinery, 215,000; wagons, 142,000; brick 120,000; rail-I rail-I road material, 120,000; cord wood, 2-IS.000; charcoal, 55S.OOO; live stock, 40,000; ore, 20,000. Total, 8,72,-I 8,72,-I 040 lbs. I Shipped Ore, 375,275 lbs.; bullion, ! 440,002; salt, S0,000; peaches, 40,000; j sundries, 213,019. Total, 1,178,-3SG 1,178,-3SG lbs. Total received and shipped for the j three weeks, 9,901,032 lbs. or over four thousand nine hundred and eighty i ton.s. Allowing two tons for a wagon load, "with three span of mules for a j team, this would have freighted two i thousand four hundred and ninety wagons, hauled by fourteen thousand nine hundred and forty mules. Soine-I Soine-I body will please compare this with the freighting of four years ago, and I say whether, and how much, the trade of this city is growing. Verily Salt Lake is becoming metropolitan in its |