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Show WANT 100 LOCOMOTIVES. Order Placed for That Number for Harriman lanes. CHICAGO, Dec. 12. JUllus Kruttsch-nltt, Kruttsch-nltt, director of malntonanco and transportation trans-portation for the Harriman lines, has Just placed orders for tho construction of 100 locomotives for distribution among tho Southern Pacific, tho Union Pacific, tho Oregon Short Line and the Oregon Railroad Rail-road & Navigation company. The order will necessitate tho ojpendl-ture ojpendl-ture of between $l,5O,000 and $2,000,000 and is ono of tho largest of the kind ever recorded. re-corded. All but about fifteen of tho engines en-gines aro for freight service; about ton aro switching engines and only five aro for passenger service. It is understood that tho Southern Pacific Pa-cific will got nearly half of the locomotives locomo-tives for general distribution throughout Its lines, including tho Central Paclrlo and the Shasta route. The orders havo been placed In such a way that the entlio lot of engines will bo delivered ha less than twelvo months. |