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Show . SALT LAliE IS ' f TRADE CENTER I becoming the Distributing jT; Point-for Entire Inter-. mountain Section; Large , Shipments Prove It i I ' : ; Ever slate the first issue v of THE - TXLEGRAM, January 80, 1902, this paper has Insisted that Salt Lake was the logl-,; logl-,; - cal, distributing point for the entire In-( In-( termbuntaln region. From time to time 'j : It has printed a number of articles show ) Jng that a number of Salt Lake mer- ( Chants are alive to this situation. This Is true of the wholesale houses as ,weli as others. ( Lastxweek the Hartln-Hillam company ' received twelve carloads of Moapa, Kev., e&ntaloupes nine of which were shipped irut of the State, going to Portland, Or., I Kuite and Helena, Mont and to Wyo-i Wyo-i ;4lng and Idaho points. j; During the same week the W. M. Rash y'r "company did a business with out-of-state towns of more than 110,000 and the C. J. "Crabtree- company of more than $5000, principally with Idaho and Wyo-f Wyo-f -iing points. . For the last two months this city has , pbeen the distributing point for practl-. practl-. cally all of the watermelons, cantaloupes j, and early fruits that have been need In j the lntermountaln region to say noth-l noth-l log of fish and poultry. i |