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Show j RA1LRQADNQTES 1 A party of fifty excursionists arrived in this city Wednesday morning on their way homo from the west. They remained hero throughout tho day and will leave tonight over tho Denver &. Rio Grande for the cast. General Manager A. C. Rldgway. .1. C. Dailey, general .superintendent of the ntah division, and S. V. Dorrah, traflic manager for the Utah division of the Denver &. Jto Grande, passed Wednesday inspecting the Sanpete branch of the line. D. E. Rurloy, general passenger agent of the Oregon Short Lino, has returned from a short husfness trip to Boise, Ida. 4 J. W. Elllngson. chief clerk In the local office of tho Salt Lake Route, has gone down the line upon a husiness trip In connection con-nection with the Interests of the road. It is unofficially stnted that plans for the new 5100,000 freight depot to ho erected erect-ed In Ogden by tho Harrlman Interests are being prepared and will bo completed and referred to the head of the Harrlman Interests In this city within a short time. It is nlso stated that plans for the new foundry are being completed and will he considered at the same time as arc tho plans for the freight depot. - Immigrant traffic on tho lines passing through this city and Ogden has reached a new hlgh-.watcr mark. Tho past week has been an exceptionally busy one. and more than 1000 aliens, mainly Poles and Italians, have passed on their way to tho extreme northwest. This Influx of foreigners for-eigners will be further augmented In about ten days, when ten shiploads will arrive at New York and other Atlantic ports. A. J. Scott, secretary to R. M. Calkins, traflic manager of the St. Paul extension to the Pacific coast. Is In this city from Butte for a few days' business trip. H. F. Curtis, general agent for the Nickel Plato line, is In Salt Lake on a business trip. Mr. Curtis says there is a perceptible picking up in railroad business busi-ness in the cast. Adolph Drahos, traveling freight agent for the Denver & Rio Grande, has returned re-turned from a trip to Ely, Nev. He reports re-ports that while there he. learned of the granting of a franchise for the. laying of the rails for the Ely & Goldlleld road, and that construction work on tho road will begin in the near future. L. G. Skllris. the Greek labor agent, has returned from a trip over the Western Pacific road, lie says his company has about 6000 laborers on the road and that they arc now laying track at the rate of a mile each day. C. S". Williams, commercial agent in this city for the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul, has returned home from San Francisco, where he has been visiting friends In company with his wife. Tho announcement to railroad people is made that the funeral of Mrs. Llbbio Gartslde will take placo from 225 Seventh avenue, at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon, Rev. Dr. Padcn officiating. Mrs. Gartslde, Gart-slde, who died Tuesday, was the wife of W. K. Gartslde of the weighing association associa-tion and Inspection bureau, and a sister of George E. Mantle, assistant chief clerk in tho freight department of tho Oregon Short Lino. The burial will be In ML Olivet, where the ritual of tho Women of Woodcraft, of which order Mrs. Gartslde was a member, will be read. |