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Show FAST TRAINS ARE TO . HAUL FRUIT Speed of Thirty-three Miles an Hour to be Maintained From the Coast to Omaha Will Require More Train Crews in and Out of Ogdcn. Superintendent T. C. Mansou or the Salt Lake division of the Southern ' Pacific has returned from aa extended trip of Inspection, over his territory, I and says: "We are very busy now over tho entire line and radical improvements are In progress everywhere between Ogden and SparkB and down the Nevada Ne-vada & California branch a6 well. We have home men at work at present than ever before, and thin condition will obtain during the entire summer and fall months. "All engines now operating west of Carlln arc now burning oil, and from this time on engines used on tho branch line to Mlna will use crude oil as fuel. Citrus trains are now begin- ning to arrlic, and that traffic promises prom-ises to bo the heaviest in the history of the road. "All fruit trains will have a fast schedule of thirty three miles an hour between the coast and Omaha, arid It will require a good many additional train crews to handle the heavy business busi-ness already assured. "Everything In the nature of Improvements Im-provements acrops the cut-off is being pushed an fast as jHussihle, and there i will be no cessation of work there until the changes authorized have been carried to a successful conclusion. conclu-sion. The talk of abandoning thai tnute is the sheerest nonsense, and within a short time the cut-off will be In better condition than ever." |