Ogden Daily Standard | 1913-07-10 | Page 5 | Heavy Gun is En Route to the Coast

1 uu HEAVY GUN IS EN ROUTE TO THE WAST On one of the largest flat cars owned by the railroads, a huge 14 inch gun. weighing 63 tons, went through the local freight yards yes terday en route to the Mare Island navy yard at San Francisco During the time the big gun was In the city, there were a number of railroaJ employes and others who visited the car. The gnn is not the only war material mate-rial that has passed through the city of late, as daily three or four box car6 of supplies for the coast ports are handled through Oxden. The cars contain rifles, ammunition projectljes and even the acids used in the manufacture manu-facture of explosive in projectiles. The extraordinary numbers of cars i going through to the coast at the present pres-ent time is accounted for by tho ln- ! creased number of soldiers in the various va-rious forts and the better equipping of the Pacific coast forts Recently several hundred soldiers passed through Ogden for California points and the Hawaiian Islands. nrv