Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-04-22 | Page 8 | Nothing but Carpet on a Train

I NOTHING BUT I CARPET ON I A TRAIN 1 The largest shipment of carpets M ever made will arrive lu Ogden Mon- H day artcrnoon over the Union Pa- HI clflc, consigned to San Francisco. The j special Harrlnian train carrying the H carpet will consist of sixty cars This long train will blaze its way H across the continent, for on the sixty H cars there will ho a huge sign giving HI the origin or the shipment, the name M of the company and the destination. H Easily the greatest undertaking known H in the history of carpet making, it al- H bo marks one of the largest achleve- 1 ments in transportation. H The contents of the long train will H be used for "stocking" a new ware- Hl house. H Carpet enough, if laid In a Single H width, to cover the line of the Union H Pacific from Council Bluffs to Chcy- Hj enne, (or from Cheyenne to Ogden) H has been placed in tho cars of this H train. H Carpet weighing a million and a half H pounds; carpet valued at a million HI dollars; carpet enough to make a pile H 400 feet stiuare. constitutes the burden H pulled by the engines at the head of H this train. H The labor of 7.S00 workers, for eight H days, was required to guide thip car- H pet through tho looms and prepare H It for its long Journey. Had tho en- H tire shipment been manufactured t In H a single day, the combined efforts of H 62,400 operators would have been re- H quired to produce this one trainload H of merchandise. H nd- I