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Show uu EMBARGO RAISED Ai Ml PACIFIC IN GOOD CONDITION "The competitive freight embargo was declared oft at midnighf last night and i In I 'nion Pacific is ready Lo handle all freight, coal or anything elst." was the statement of Assistant Superintendent A w Woodruff of the Wyoming division, who today paid his third visit in three months to his 1 1 d n headquarters, The assistant superintendent baa h, , ii at the "front" fighting the Wye mum blizzard thai tied up the Union Pacific I'" nearly two da B last month This he said, was the worst storm thai Wyoming had seen since 1898 and It Rot so bad thai the Hack clearing gangs simply had to quit work sod wait uniii it bad paased over Wort than too men were engaged en-gaged in the fight with the drifts b-tween b-tween Laramli and Omaha and Kan-sas Kan-sas City. By their combined effort, with that Oi IBOWPlOWl "l Hirer dirfer- i in types, all ol the tracks and cuts wt rs eh an d ol mow several days sgo and the railroad has never been In better physical condition than at present. Speaking o1 the coal situation. Mr. Woodrufi Stated that coal was being lOVed east and v.est as fast as the c ars can be loaded and trains made up Todaj riftt en cars ol i ommer- clal coal were delivered In Ogden and there are now approximately 2000 mine empties at the Rock Springs mlnen waiting? to be loaded. Trainmaster W. C. Shelver of Evan-ston Evan-ston accompanied Assistant Superintendent Superin-tendent Woodruff to Oaden and passed the day here. |