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Show TO INCREASE OUTPUT OF COAL MINERS WILL WORK WITH RENEWED RE-NEWED VIGOR NEXT WEEK. Three Hundred Cars Daily Being Moved No Danger of Fuel Famine Fam-ine This Wlntor. Superintendent Whitney or tho Southern Pacific is back at hla desk, after a trip of inspection over the Utah division, and, in reply to ln- quirles from a reporter, said: "While the miners of Rock Springs tnd other camps along the road have been celebrating the Christmas sea-Eon sea-Eon for a few days, the boys are now icturning to work in groups and tho output from the mines will be materially mate-rially increased during the next week and will be kept up from this time on. Whllo at Rock Springs on thi6 trip I was advised by those in authority author-ity that the mines were making- a record this winter and that more coal was being sent out from the various camps tributary to the place than ever ' before. Tho coal is ot an exceptlon-! exceptlon-! ally high grade of fuel, also. Even now we are moving about threo hun-1 hun-1 died cars dally, and a large propor-" propor-" tlon of this Is for commercial purposes. pur-poses. There Is no danger of any ' fuel famine this winter, and the Union Pacific Is handling the coal. 1 both ways, without delays of trans-l trans-l i-ortation anywhere? on the system. 3 "It has been ideal winter weather down in Wyoming aunng me iasi ven 1 days and as a result the big Ice crop I a,t Evanston is being gathered In record rec-ord time. A larger force of men are employed In the work, and Ice houses at Ogden, Evanston, Green River, Rawlins and other points east, are bo lng filled aa fast as possible. "Business keeps up on the road In flno shape, and the year's record on the Union Pacific has been all that could have been desired even by Gen- friends, continued on to New Yorlc with a party of friends. tj Assistant Superintendent Winum8 Jeffers of the Utah division of hi Union Pacific, arrived from Orwa ' River yesterday for a confermca J with Superintendent W. A. WWto;. Whllo the Southern Paciflo sir;s ! were closed down In honor of ttm cer " ear, the offlco force Irrifwrtr fv chanic Malono's office was on dutyt part of the day, and practically ta j pame condition prevailed in all ot-flcefr ot-flcefr in tho different departments of 1 tho local Harrlman management. v era! Manager Mohler and Superintendent Superinten-dent Park; and when these officiate are satisfied with general traffic conditions, con-ditions, it's a pretty good indication that something has been doing all along the line. j "Twenty-six miles of tho new ! double track, between Granger and j Green River, are now in operation, and train service is greatly improved by the addition of the second track. Bui there has been nothing in tho way of traffic congestion anywhere between Omaha and Ogden during tho past year, and this ideal condition, with a heavy record-breaking business, busi-ness, naturally brings a smile of happiness hap-piness and serene contentment to the bosses at Omaha." Chief Counsel Herrin or the Southern South-ern Pacific system,' with headquarters at San Francisco, arrived from the west in his private car yesterday and, after greeting a number of Ogden |