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Show vu The largest shipmont of automobiles over made in the United Statos will pass through Wyoming ovor the Union Un-ion Pacific railroad the first week In February, enrouto for the Pncltlc coast There will be fiftv carloads shipped from the eastern factory Thoy were started on their Journey .Inn. 25, and will travel only by da light They will reach Denver about February 5, Chevenno tho following day and will proceed by daylifiht runs to Ogden, where ten or twehe cars win bo sent ovei the Oregon Short Line to Portland Port-land and the remainder over Southern Pacific to Southern California. Thousands of pooplo all along the route over which this shipment will pass will watch for it with great curiosity because of tho interest tluit always attaches to so large a shipmont ship-mont of a single commodity. Tho train will be more than one third of a mile in length and will carry moro than $200,000 worth of machines. This shipment' demonstrates the great development of the automobllo manufacturing industry, and particularly particu-larly tho domund for machln0K that has grown up in the west. Statistics piepared by the automobile associations associa-tions of tho country show that thero aro a grouter' imjaUer of machines In Uho in the wesT in ptoportlon to' tho population than In tho oast, and the percontago In favor of the west Ihi increasing in-creasing every yean , , t |