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Show Tr.IZCO Y7ILLT2 .LiGsnn txiaii rvEu, DIXLALZS IZZWL3 "Frisco , will come to its own again. 45o says J. A. Reeves, general freight agent of the Oregon Short Line, who returned late last night from the city of desolation. desola-tion. "But desolate no more," said Mr, Reeves today, as he glanced with a smile at the ceiling and watched tb'e smoke of a perfecto wreath Into freight business. "Everybody Is hustling and bustling and pushing and sawing wood," said he. '"Frisco -will be better and bigger than ever before. Big skyscrapers are going up downtown in place or the beautiful structures destroyed a year ago. Just as quickly as 'men. and material are procured. pro-cured. . "I never was as proud of my American citizenship in my life as I was last week, when 20,000 men, In air walks of life lawyers, doctors, bankers, laborers, merchants, mer-chants, crooks, and newspaper men went to work on the streets and cleaned up. "And on every corner, stood the- women, wom-en, women laden down with bread and meat and coffee and . other good things for the men who were working for the weal of 'Frisco. . It was a sight -1 never saw before and never expect to see again." |