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Show U HIS GEOGRAPHY DEFECTIVE. Either Gcrrit Fort, manager o the passenger traffic of the 1 Union Pacific, vras suffering an abbcration or the Salt Lake news- H papers made him say strange things at the banquet of passenger H agents in Salt Lake, Thursday evening. Mr. Fort is quoted: H 31 r. Fort, in an afterdinncr address, proved himself a H thorough friend and booster for Salt Lake and Utah. Tho H subject of his toast wis "The Double Track." ITc said 1 the Union Pacific saw the great possibilities of the west H when it appropriated a vast sum of money recently to double track the Union Pacific from Omaha to Salt Lake, H and the Southern Pacific from Salt Lake to San Francisco. 1 lie said he was a lover of the people of Utah because of their large hearts and whole souls, and he called himself one of them. H The Union Pacific from Omaha to Salt Lake and the Southern H Pacific from Salt Lake to San Francisco is something new. The H children in our public schools must correct their misunderstanding H of railroad terminals. |