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Show GENERAL OPFICE FORCES ARE BEING INCREASED What IL menus to have sroncral offices for railroads and allied linos, as well as other public utility corporations, established es-tablished in a city 1ms been fully shown this week, when newcomers for the American Express have been househunting, house-hunting, and inquiries arc commencing to arrive from the Western Pacific. Houses that arc ;;ood arc taken at once and there Is a reported scarcity of suitable suita-ble dwellings. The Oregon Short Lino has tho largest general office force, and it will be remembered that when it opened its offices in 1897 most of the officials and clerks camo liorc from Omaha, and for that year there was a great scarcity of residences; There are now In Salt Lake the general or division offiees of four large transcontinental railroads, two telegraph companies, two telephone exchanges and three transcontinental transcon-tinental express companies, to say nothing noth-ing of gas. electric and other companies. They bring lo thei city a line class of men and they demand good accommodations, accommoda-tions, so It can be readily seen that the new forces of the Western 1'aciilc will mean something to the city at large. |