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Show RAILROAD BUSINESS IS READY TO BOOM T. W. Thompson, general Western freight and passenger agent at San ( Francisco; F. B. Gorham general agent at Portland: H. W. Adams commercial agent at San Francisco, and Mr. Coons, commercial agent at Los Angeles, all representatives of the Rock Island, passed through Salt Lake today en route to the coast from Denver, where they attended a meeting of the representatives repre-sentatives of the system. J. E. Oglesby. local commercial agent of the same system, returned with the party. He says the general freight ' traffic conditions of the West were thoroughly discussed and the fact developed that the coming season will be the heaviest known. . V "All of the freight agents present at the meeting." he said, "reported that the prospects were very bright and expressed ex-pressed themselves of the opinion that the railroads would' be called upon to handle more freight than during any previous year In their history." |