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Show freight business has grown marvelous during the past six months, and that j the expenditure for stand ard-gattR! track and new equipments are. mor thau justified even bv the present earnings. earn-ings. The Kio Grau'de has grown iajm a "baby" to a young giant. HIO GHANKK KQIIP.HKNK'. Au Immense Out lay in Hulling stock lor the llroiul (inugo. The Denver & Kio Grande company has ordered 1000 cars for freight service, ser-vice, sixty-livo new passenger 'coaches and fifty large engines, to be placed upon the standani gauge line on Sept ember 1. This calls for an outlav of over SI. 200, 000, and when the order is tilled the Kio Grande will be the most perfectly equipped road iu the country. 'J'ho statement is made noon high authority au-thority that the tonnage of tho road's |