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Show Eailroad Notes. Grantsvillo Is eager. All aboard for Nophl. Friday. Yellowstone cars still crowded. Jay Buckingham Is greeting old friends. For the twenty-four hours ending at noon Wodnosday tho re were 250 steam trains into and out of this city. Vico President Bancroft and party will return to the city on Saturday. Clifford J. Rldd, a son of W. J. Kldd. is now chief clerk In the office of bridge supervisor of tho Rio Grande." Local friends will hear with regret that both Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Hilton are 111 In the Boise hospital. Mr. Hilton is with the Short LI ne. The Hallway Review of Chicago publishes pub-lishes an editorial on tho feat of the Gould lines in putting the fruit trains from Sacramento to Chicago In eighty-four eighty-four hours. This breaks freight train records, and tho service is still being maintained. ( One of the features of the fruit train runs of the present is tho way the cars arc Iced lu .Salt Lako City by a crow of Greeks. They handle one car per minute min-ute and do the work by hand. Tho Espco will erect a 530,000 club building at San Luis Obispo. The Union Pacific will put up an SS0,-000 SS0,-000 station at North Platte. Tho Rio Grande has ordered S00 tons of bridge steel material from the American Amer-ican Bridge company. Firo broke out in the storage coal at Wolby, Thursday, but tho llamcs were extinguished. Coal is stored all along the line, and there will be no shortage this winter. The Utah Construction company Is pushing tho work on the grade and tunnels tun-nels for the Bingham & Garfield. It Is sending men over to Colorado also, and has lia hands full the present season. Owing to the fact that tho new station will so soon he occupied, the Rio Grande Is not making any improvements at the present station, and it now looks as If tho .structure, with tho baggage depot, will be torn down to glvo room for tho rearrangement of freight tracks. Gerrit Fort, passenger traffic manager, and R. S. Ruble, assistant general passenger pas-senger agent of the Union Pacific, aro In the city on business and arc being onter-talncd onter-talncd by the Short Lino officials. The Sandy cars were packed Thursday evening. Many came up to go to tho various resorts. |