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Show LARGE SHIPMENT OF J& AUTOS SENT TO FAIR Seer- A Pa n;i ma-Pacific oxpoM. ion special wE" train of 100 carloads of automobiles lert the factory of the Buick Motor com- ng C. pan? at FHnt, Mich., for San Francisco 5.o"J. last Saturday, necordiiijr to information ing f' received vestordnv at the local offices it t;;'r" of the Rock Island railroad. The train iv.r;: consists of fiftv Hock Island fort v -foot .L.r;-;, and tiftv Kock Island tiftv-foot Vurni- 'T re cars and is 0:.:0 feet, almost one A p.:'. mile, in leneth. J! is said to be the ' c'-'t ' largest trainload shipment of automo- : ' ;., biles nver made, and is scheduled to dt.! V;,ss through Ocden on the w.-iv lo a n .t-y J i";inci;.co some time this wfek. vP':'' automoliilrs on tin- train arc j valued at. more than half a million dol-I dol-I lars. and the tmi-ht charges alone j.-'inomiL to $;io,9t0. The shipment is ,M:ovinLr by wa v of the Rock Island, the ! n,on Paciric and the- Southern Pacific ''ii'.lroaJs. AJtliouch The cars mav have lJt- the factoiv in one train ii is sate : ro say that it will be diveded into several sev-eral trains over thn mountains climbed by the western roads. |