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Show RECORD-BREAKING TOURIST RUSH OVER The tourist rush, which breaks all records is the history ef the railroads, practically closes today with a recqrd estimated in the local offices at from 75,000 to 100,000 tourists distributed all along the Pacific coast. Today is the record breaker for both the Oregon Short Line and Denver 4 Rio Grande roads. Ninety tourist cars loaded with passengers entered Salt Lake over the . Rio Grande today. Eighty to a hundred cars filled full of tourists entered Ogden last pight within eighty miputes. There were eight trains following within ten minutes min-utes of eaeh other At the least calculation calcu-lation this means that 8000 passengers have passed through Utah bound for the coast within fifteen or stxteen hours. The' passengers are about evenly divided di-vided between thn north coast and southern' California. The San Pedro was obliged to put on an extra train of eleven ears last - night to fcandle the southbound trada. |