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Show - CARRYING COSTS REDUCED. New Electric Line to Ogden Valley Making Itself Felt in Freights. Special to TJie Tribune. OGDEX, Aug. 13. Thin city is soon to derive additional benefits from the completion of the Ogden, Logan & Idaho Ida-ho company's electric line to Huntsville by reasoD of the transportation of copper cop-per ore over the line. This ore is mined on Wolf mountain on the divide between Cache and Weber counties. Today To-day six teams were put to work hauling the ore by wagon from the mine to Huntsville," where it will be loaded upon cars for transportation to the smelters. Previous to the completion of the valley val-ley electric line it was found unprofitable unprofit-able to operate, the mine because of the long haul of ore to ITyrum in Cache county. The transportation of ore is but a small percentage of the total increase in-crease in business w-hicli benefits Ogden Og-den by reason of the now electric line. Within the next few days sheep and other livestock will be loaded at Huntsville Hunts-ville for transportation to eastern markets mar-kets without change of cars. The farmers are also preparing to increase their crops of sugar beets, peas and other farm produce because of the saving sav-ing in transportation to Ogden markets. |