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Show BIG SALMON IRl CROSS! COUNTRY VHiat is sai'l to be thc largest solid train of canncl salmon erc-r moved from the Pacific northwest is beiug handled over tho Union Pnci6c system and connecting lines to New York City. The train consists of fifty ears laden with 50,000 rase. J. 400.000 cans of salmon, valued at $250,000. The weight of thc shipment is 3.500.000 pound, enough to furnish one meal for 10,000,-OiKl 10,000,-OiKl persons. The, train passed Huntington, Ore., at 6 o'clock yesterday morning. It moved Iroui Portland over the Oregon-Washington Oregon-Washington Railroad 1 Navigation company's road and is now oeing handled" ov.'r tin- Oregon Short Line. It will be delivered by the Short Line 1.. the Union PaCilic, and from Omaha will lie handled by the Illinois Central, the Nickel Plate and the Lackawanna line tu New York City. A great deal of the salmon in the train is destined to points in Europe, although some of it is for various distributing centers along Hie Atlantic seaboard. lcss than ten years ago the salmon movement to tlie cast consisted of an occasional carload, but the industry has grown rapidly within the past few months, and the big trnin now moving i said to be a forerunner of a ast movement to the eastern consuming and jobbing center. |