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Show Price Active Froight Point. The Importance, of Price as a freight -handi ng station on tho Denver fc Rio Grande has Increased live-fold wllhln the last year, according to Robert Mc-Mmo. Mc-Mmo. a commission merehanl of that lown. who is in Salt Lake on busbies. .Mr. JK'Kuiie says there is now -100.000 pounds of freight stored at Price, waiting wait-ing to be taken by wagon lo Vernal and lcv l,olllls hi the reservation country The railroad has more than doubled its force at tho Price station, and the relief from the former congested condition of tho Price rrelght house is most welcome to the business interests of the town,'' said Air. McICune yesterday. Tn former years. Price was the shipping ship-ping polnj for nearly all of the reservation reserva-tion country to tho north, but for lhe last few years, since lhe mail has been routed by way of .Mack ami Dragon freight has been diverted that wav. Now however, lhe stage line from P'rlce to Vernal Is to be resumed, and the Price gatewuy to the reservation counlrv Is handling mote merchandise than ever before. |