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Show TOURIST-TRAVEL' REACHES PEAK Much Extra Equipment - Needed by Railroads - ' The transcontinental tourlat travel ' paaalng through Bait Lake will reach It peak this wk. according to . Information received today at -the offices of tha Union Pacific, Denver Rio Grande Western and Southern Paciflo Railroad Rail-road companies. On the Denver Rio Grande Weatern the normal traffic la being exceeded by ten and ' eleven Pullman sleeping car dally, while a corresponding in-aaa in-aaa la noted en, tha Union Pa-alflr. Pa-alflr. Discussing the passenger traffic through Salt Lake, B. W. Bobbins, assistant passenger agent for th Denver Rio Grande Weatern railroad, rail-road, aald that five more Pullman leaping ear are being run between Bait Lake and Denver tMa year than last year In order to take care of the heavy travel. Testerday nineteen Puilmaa Bleeping can were attached to three Denver- Rio Grande Western trains east-bound east-bound and more could hav been used If they were available. The heavy travel eaatward I taxing the supply of Pullman cara to the limit. Tha Pullman are not moving westward with the aame regularity that they are moving eastward, which la causing a scarcity scar-city te be felt here, according to information received. Mr. Robblni elated that through pasaenger traffic ' through Halt Lak wilt continue through September Sep-tember and October, aa the excursion ex-cursion ratea from the East to the. West do net go out of effect until September 10. The excursion rates te tha Kaet from the Weat go out of effect on September IS and September 10 and eoneequently heavy eaatoound travel will slacken slack-en about that time. The return llmlte en ail excursion ticket la October St. which means that through October there will be heavy travel eastward and westward west-ward of passenger hastening homeward before uie expiration of the ticket limit. - The opening of schools In all parte ef the country between September Sep-tember 1 end October 1 will aleo be an Impetus for Increased traffic In teachere and atudent and will keep the railroad travel at a high peak through the fall month. |