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Show BUSINESS ON THE RAILROADS. A day last week the Southern Pacific Pa-cific railroad was forced to employ three new freight crews out of Ogden, Og-den, to take care of the increasing freight traffic, and not long ago the company borrowed 500 boxcars from one of the other roads. This gives some idea: of the growth of railroad business at this point. The Oregon Short Line handled in Ogden 71,000,000 pounds more of freight last month than in the corre-1 spondlng month of last year. More men are employed In the local Southern Pacific shops than at any time in the past By the way, the yards surrounding the Southern Paclfio shops are an object lesson in orderliness and cleanliness. clean-liness. Railroad shops generally are in such a condition of disorder aB to present the appearance of junk yards, but that is not true of the local plant. There is a place (for everything and every piece of iron is in Its place, even the borings and filings being dumped in a large bin. '. nrv- |