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Show Railroad Notes, Great strides. The season of niln. The beet crop is big. Moro cars, say tho farmers. For a dry year the harvest is great. Every road needs more engines at present. pres-ent. Local passenger traffic In Utah Is greater tlian In years past. Incoming merchandise shipments to local lo-cal Utah points are breaking all records. Utah county 13 showing a 20 per cent Increase. In-crease. Maybe there will be some of those double-deck sheep cars forthcoming with all the futuro available cash. Tho chief topic: of conversation in local railroad circles Tuesday was Tho Tribune's Trib-une's news of Short Line plans for Increase In-crease in capital. In Chicago yesterday tho railroad attorney at-torney asked tho shippers' attorney for the tiames of some of tho leading shippers ship-pers because the roads had shown that th'-y had returns on the Investment of 1 g' per cent and ho wanted to know what the shippers' returns were on their investment. in-vestment. The Information was not forthcoming. forth-coming. The commission had one of Its busy davs Tuesday. The Philadelphia com-nhiint com-nhiint was to abolish charging' demurrage demur-rage on Saturday half holidays and the Colorado coal men want the coal rales lowered on tho Walscnbcrg product. |