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Show Railroad Notes. Wool traffic Is looking up. Passenger travel is very hoavy for thc season. "It looks like Salt Lake for 1911." says Joe Jones. The Rio Grnndo Is storing thousands of tons of coal In tho local yards. Superintendent W. P S. Hawk will leave for Chicago Sunday, whom ho will reside permanently. His family will Join him later. Chief Special Agent Jones of tho Oregon Ore-gon Short Line left for Los Angeles Saturday Sat-urday to attend the convention of special spe-cial "agents and armed with an Invitation Invita-tion to hold thc convention of 11)11 In this city. The governor, mayor. Commercial Com-mercial club and lending railroad and business men have joined In the cordial Invitation and there Is every reason to believe that the convention will bo secured se-cured for this city. As already explained, the men are all officials of rallronds dealing deal-ing with secret service matters, and as they form a large number their comlns would bo quite an event. H. A. Johnson, general freight agent of the Colorado & Southern Is In the city, with R. S. Hcaron and W. H. M. Dresscher of thc Colorado Fuel & Iron company. Wool loading at nnd near Prlco will be In full swing this week The Immense Jordan gravel pits of tho Rio Grande will bo steadily drawn upon this season In loading ballast with which to surfnee and ballast many miles of main line track. This gravol pit Is an extumdve onc. tho slopu of the Point mountain being formed In such a way as to make the work of steam shovels comparatively com-paratively onsy. The Western Pacific has located a fine gravel deposit in the mountains west of the lake and this material will be uacd for ballast. While hero the Rio Grande officials will look Into tho Prove union station projoct Thc plans call for a suitable building with provision for tickets, baggage, bag-gage, express and other departments pertaining per-taining to thc passenger business of trains, including ample waiting and smoking smok-ing rooms. The building will be constructed con-structed of native rock and will bo an imposing structure. Tho freight station of each road will he maintained separately sepa-rately nt the present locations. Holper as a district terminal 1 to be greatly improved by the Rio Grando. Tho coneral yard and shop facilities are to bei oxtendod In every way. It Is the most Important terminal between here and the Colorado line. Now stool Is to ho laid on many portions por-tions of the old Sanpete Valley railway, now a part of tho Rio Grande system. Tho peoplo of Fillmore and of Beaver am equally busy in tho agitation for a branch rallroud. These uro tho days for guessing as to what will happen. The next few months, i will see many changes In local railroad, circles. |