Show CARS HANDLED THROUGH LOCAL YARDS ARE CRITERION increase has been steady since july and fewer engines are now required from saturdays standard there wore big increases in the numbers of cars handled through the local yards of the harraman Harrl man system during the months of june and july as compared with the previous year but it took august to produce the best increase yet shown the increase in june was over cars in july over cars and now comos august with a total increase of at the time that the increase began to be so plainly noticeable it was feared that on account 0 the heavy business starting in so much earlier than in previous years the effect would be felt later on so far tah has not been the case and the prospects at the present time are that the increase will continue for some time to come A short almo ago one of the head officials of the harriman system slated that there was a general increase in the over tho entire system and that the portion of the road passing through here waa receiving a large proportion of the increase all ot which assists toward increasing the importance of ogden as a railroad center ono can get a fair idea of the amount of business done by the local yards from the tact that during the month of august there was handled a total of freight cars this too with a decrease m the number of engines to handle the same aa compared with what was required in ho previous year the ogden lucin cutoff cut off has figured largely in the decrease of engines as wath he completion of that project which abolished the heavy grades found on the old line larger trains could be handled and single engines were used where before double headers were necessary the decrease in engines on the southern pacific alone during august as compared with the same month in 1904 was while th increase in cars handled was about 1200 on the same line in figuring the total number ot cara handled in the local yards engines handled are rated adf two cars in august the number of engines handled was 1427 of the increase in cars handled the total of which is tor the month were received and forwarded the number of passenger cars handled here notwithstanding the heavy travel to the portland exposition a decrease as compared with a year previous this however is due to the heavy travel last year of the knights templar which exceeded that of the fair the decrease in passenger paa cars handled during the month was cars |