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Show 35 MILES OF SOAP. A train of 'U cnr-londa of soap pns Bed tlirougli Lnhi oer tho Hio Cinnde Western nt 1:. 6 today, on route to Ogden. The ttnin was Imndled by the i Great Ilurllngtoii from Oninha to Den ver and from Denver toOinnd Junction by the Denver & Hio Grande. Thin record shipment of reap contL-tn of 20,01)0 rn03. of 100 bars each, a total of 2,000,009 bai a ;hns a net weight of , 1,000,09 pound, and a nun ket valuo ol 00,000. If stacked up, one baron top of another, this eonp would make a pl'c over 1H5 nillea high. The estimated mnaimipiion of soap in tlic civilized wiiu is ten pounds per capita jicr J milium. This shipment would, there jH, fore, eupply 150,000 people for one year. |