Deseret Evening News | 1900-02-15 | Page 2 | To Handle Cotton Shipments

r i To handle Cotton f 0 It la Is announced lint the Illinois Cena Cen a triLl will establish nn an agency In Portland for tor tire tho purpose of handling I cotton to tho lie Orient J T F TI Fr r I second vice Ico who o B SynC wal In Portland Said We now flow havo direct connections over oer flU ou 1 own OU tracks from New Orleans Mem Memphis St SI and Chicago to Omaha and we have amicable arrange meats with all roads from that point I to Portland We o cover roer nil all the groat IJ I country ot or the south southa I a and the sections of c Illinois and Iowa anti and have formed a arr direct line to the tho Pacific nt at Portland rr 1 I There is III IL a great groot demand In the Orient for tor cotton colton and many thousands of tau llIn he be saved by It to 10 toI I Portland arid loading It hero hert This will r f bo be tar far the cheapest arid quickest route u and we prefer to encourage It because It gives us ue 1 ft much longer haul hau