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Show Heavy Business. The following figures will five somo idea of the immense im-mense business being dono by Z. 0. M. I., and show ibat the Institution is iu a wonderfully flourishing condition. condi-tion. In eighty-nino business days, from Sept. 16 to Dec. 31, 1S72, there : was paid by Z. C. M. L, for freight ialono $113, 0S4 02, which would be ! quito a respectable amount for an ; enterprising young man to begin life ' with in some paying line of business. Vandcrbilt commenced with much lea. This money paid freight on 5,030,121 lbs , or 2,515 tons and 121 lbs.; equal to 231 car loads, being nearly three car loads a day. In tho old times of freighting it would have required to haul it a thousand and six wagons, each containing two and a half tons and drawn by fivo yoko of oxen; the cattle numbering a little over ten thousand thou-sand bead, and the whole forming over twenty trains of fifty wagonB each. Such an amount of freight received by all tho firms in Salt Lake city a few years ago would have been considered con-sidered worth noting, and now it is received by ono institution in three months I |