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Show BUSINESS ON RAILROADS INCREASES Tho month of February showed a very welcomo Increase in tho volume of business transacted by the Harrl-man Harrl-man lines locally and general Improvement Im-provement in the amount of traffic passing through this city, by comparison compari-son with January. By comparison with the month of February, 1910. tho month Just passed shows a slight falling off but Is about equal to the business of 1909 January Janu-ary of this year was tho Hghtost month In freight traffic that the Harr-Iman Harr-Iman linos at tnls point havo experienced experi-enced In years and In view of this the report of February is considered a very satisfactory one. The prospects for March aro believed to be good and tho freight officials are more optimistic op-timistic than they were thirty days ago The orange movement will depend de-pend largely upon the weather conditions con-ditions but with normal temperaturo It is likely that the fruit will begin passing through Ogden within the next twenty dayB. At the proscnt time four switching crows are working In the Harrlman lines night nnd day. About three freight trains are passing through tho Ogdcn yards every twenty-four hours This is only about half tho number of trains which wore being handled last summer but It is moro than were being handled dining tho months of December or January. |