Show SALT LAKE tAKE NOW i FREIGHT T CENTER Holds Important I Place PIce as Dis Distributing Distributing Distributing Point for Entire West FIGURES SHOW INCREASE NOVEMBER BUSINESS BREAKS RECORDS OF PAST YEARS Accounting departments of all aU local railroad headquarters are announcing in increased increased increased creased business for each succeeding month The Oregon Short Line statistical accounts for the month just past show that more freight passed Salt Lake during November of this year than during any corresponding month In years ears Over Oer twice as much freight passed through the Oregon Short Line yards dur due during durIng dueing ing the month Just ended as is recorded for the corresponding month In 1904 and andover andover andover over more than passed through Salt Lake during November of 1903 1905 The official figures now In the general freight offices are November 1900 1006 cars through Salt Sait Lake November 1905 1803 2773 27 33 cars and aud November 1904 cars West Is Growing Freight business is growing so rapidly in the west that railroads confess contess their Inability to handle all aU traffic tra CIc with present equipment The San Francisco earth earthquake earthquake earthquake quake created an unusual towards the coast but when compared with the increase in crops and outputs of ot all aU kinds kind this is but a drop In the bucket The fall faU crop of or sugar eUliar beets In Utah and Idaho and neighboring states Is almost doubled each season New mines and smelters In Inthis Inthis inthis this and other oUter states are making heavy demands upon the local coal mines Build Building ing lag materials of or all kinds are in constant constantly ly growing demand The building activity activIty ity In Salt Lake Is the same all over the state Railroad officials say the Increase in freight business is becoming a problem Steel plants are aro working worl day da and night to fill orders for equipment As It has lias been explained the west welt is outgrowing its clothes |