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Show CARLOADS OF FRUIT. The Harriman officials found the demand for fruit cars so far beyond their expectations that, during the first of this week, they were forced to employ six large transfer gangs in the Ogden yards, emptying westbound refrigerator cars of their merchandise, in order to make the cars serviceable at this point. Long strings of refrigerators were turned over to the fruit men at heavy expense to the railroads. This prompt response to the needs of the fruit growers is praiseworthy. The fruit industry in northern Utah has been growing so rapidly that both railroad and box companies have been taken by surprise. A rush order for fifteen carloads of box material was made necessary two weeks ago and still the supply of boxes is not equal to the demand. de-mand. It is estimated that 400 to 600 carloads of peaches will be shipped ship-ped from this district before the end of the season and a well-informed horticulturist predicts that, with tie new orchards coming into bearing, 1,500 carloads in a season will be sent east from here within three years. |