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Show EH! ROUTE EAST I A special train of 50 .cars, loaded H with 2,400,000 cans of salmon from H the Pacific Northwest canneries is IH now being moved to NQW York over H the Union Pacific lines and is the H largest salmon consignment .ever H shipped from the Pacific coast ac- H cording to word .received by W. H. H Chevers, general agent for- th.e com- H pany. The consignment is valued at H S250.000 and the greater- part of it 1 vrill bo exported to European coun- H tries in fulfillment of orders placed H with the salmon canning, concerns in H the early part of the summer. IH The train left Seattle Monday and IH to reach the eastern metropolis ' and H At. antic coast port it was, necessary H to pass over three lines.- of the sys- H tern. These were the Oregon-Wash H ington Railway & Navigation, Oregon H Short Line and tho main line.- Infor- H mation concerning the shipment was H furnished from the offices of W. S. IH Basin ger, freight agent at Omaha, H |