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Show Railroad Notes. R. II. Greene, traveling freight agent-for agent-for the Colorado Midland, was in town 3'coterday. Ho said that the stories of his being ill were exaggerated and he wag quite able to be about, E. R, Hunt, traveling freight agent for tho Denver &; Rio Grande, was in town yesterday. Edward Mahoney, who has been appointed ap-pointed traveling-freight agent out here for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, during the wool season, has arrived here from Omaha and will go out down kouUi in a couple of days. W. H. Bancroft, vice-president and general manager of tho Oregon Short Line, went out last night bound for Los Angeles. He will meet the otficials of tho Salt Lako road there, and expects to accompany them on their way back in this direction, when tho party will drive over the desert between the points to which the road has been completed. Both the Short Line and the R. G. W. have been having considerable trouble "watching out for breaks In tho line on account of the high waters. At Jordan narrows a largo flume built by the Utah & Salt Lake Irrigation company, burst early yesterday morning, and the main track of the Rio Grande lino was threatened for several hour!. Two hundred feet of the side track was carried car-ried away as it was and It was only by having a force of 100 men hard at work that they were able to savo the main line traffic from being Interrupted, Col. Benton of tho- passenger department depart-ment of the Rio Grande received a telegram from MaJ. S. K. Hooper last night to the effect that the line was clear In Colorado. Traffic was running last night as usual and the damage has all been repaired. . Wlllam Ashton, chief engineer of the Oregon Short Lino, and Superintendent Buckingham returned last night from a tour of Inspection they have been making mak-ing of the section between Qgden and Green River. |