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Show SECOND LARGEST RAILROAD MAIL TRANSFER STATION TO BE CONSTRUCTED HERE That Ogden will have the second largest mail transfer station in the United Stales before another year rolls around, is now almost a certainty. cer-tainty. A decision to erect such a building was made yesterday by Guy Adams, superintendent superintend-ent of the railway mail service of the Union Pacific. Oregon Short Line, Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation company and Salt Lake Route, and a number of division superintendents super-intendents of the postal service. Mr. Adams ftnd the division superintendents were in Ogden Sunday and. with Chief Clerk V. L Carr. se lected a site on the union railway terminal grounds for the building. Among the superintendents in ihc parly with Mr. Adams were S. A. Sislcr of Washington, Washing-ton, G. L. Knox of Seattle, and representatives of the postal department from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and St. Louis. The parly, including Giief Clerk Carr, departed yesterday for the Pacific coast, where they will consider further the new plans for the distribution of ma.il at Ogden. Ihe transfer station, which will cost approximately ap-proximately $75,000, will be built by the Union Pacific Railroad system at ihc north end of the Ogden union passenger station. It will be rented lo the govcrnmenl, and clerks of ihc railway mail service will have complete charge of sorting the mail. When the slnlion is ready for use, all mail , for the Pacific const cities will be sorted, racked and bagged there, instead of being dis- , tribuled on trains between Chicago, San Francisco, Fran-cisco, San Francisco, Portland and Los Angel"- At the present tunc, ihc largest mail transfer trans-fer station is localcd in Omaha. |