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Show HEAVY PASSENGER TRAFRCJEXPEGTED Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Rail-road Alone to Handle 4500 Trains. As nn Idea of the number of tourists expected to visit Salt Lake during IMS, the Denver & Rio Grande railroad alone llgurcH on handling 4,'iuO through passenger passen-ger tnilna Into and out oT Salt Luke this yeiir, Horordltig to Information received luu'o rtrrd;iy from tho general ofllces of tho company In Prnvrr. I tubT normal rood It inn) tho roiid handles about half tiuit number of truing annually through Salt Lake. InnMuuch as travol during Ih past six months hiis not hern very lu av y h nd the nud Is now operatlm: only four through I rains d;i llv. t he pros per Is urn that t he fa-IUth-s of tho road will he taxed after a Unit tho lirst of Mny until t ho end of tho year. About ono-thlrd of tho ex-pc-te'il t i nltiM will be regulu r t rains, according ac-cording lo tho present tluin tabic, and all olliors will bo run to accommodate tho exposition travel. Along with the othrr Information It wns rrpnrlod tiuit the Uock Ishmd llnoa have iilreitdy rontrnrtod for T'O special trains, whlrli will bo turnod uvrr to tho Douvor Kio (h;inde at Colorado Sprints and I rniiviT, Wlir-n V. A. Wdloli;Ji, passon-or passon-or I rn fib mamicr of the Denver - Kio (Inindo niiil W'estorn Piolflr. was tirrr a fow wreks mko ho snld coiitrarts for 115 si'ochil trains through Salt Lake (Ids sumuirr had iilrondy been closed and dm Is worn on for h s ma ny nau o. Vrom tho Ilork Island 1 1 port it appears tlmt his ostium to wiih none too hlh. Undrr the pi'opont urranKiMiirnts no spoidal train will be run during the exposition for losn thnii ll!.'t p.iNsoii:ors mid the uvoravo will run far above I hut nuinher. Hut. b.islin; the numbor of (ourlstH to bo bnniKht In bore over tho 1 tin (irando on tho minimum, mini-mum, thnt road abuio should hritiK at lonsl IT., inn) tiunlPls inlo Ih.i rltv. And, ttr.utdluH; to Mr. Wadlrb'.b, the hlnorary of vt'iy upoolul train ml In fur a atop In Mult L;iko of Irmn a few hours to n full dny. |