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Show "HARRIMAN ROADS ARE KEPT BUSY '. ; . j Heavy Colonist Travel Calls For an Extra Train Daily Freight Traffic is Brisk Special Trains Over Southern Pacific and : Union Pacific Arc Making Record Runs. I: . i j Traffic is especially brisk Just .it the present on the Union Pacific lines, an average of twenty-five freight trains being hauled every twenty-four hour8. In the passenger department business Is relatively as 1 great. j The freight movement is augmented 1 at this t'nie by the heavy stock ship- j mcms eastward. Whole tralnloads ! of sheep are moving into Omaha daily and the cattle traffic is partlculariiy large. Moot of this freight Is picked up east of Crvden, much t.f it in western Wyoming. The dried and canned fruit shipment from California Is on the increase. Some of he dried fruit going straight through from points in California Cali-fornia to Omuha without tho breaking break-ing up of the trains in this city In the transfer from the Southern Pacific l'lies. These special trnins are making mak-ing record runs aud ali of them are ., 1 cutting several hours off tho regular freight schedule of oaci division. Oriental freight, bound for eastern points. Is also an Important factor in the movement on the Union Pacific 1 l'nes and there nro no Indications of , It falling off. ' Local officials slate that the general I prospectri for a continuation of the present volume of business in the I freight department are g-od. The pasHenrer traffic is abnormally abnormal-ly large, due in part to the colonist rales. Every available passenger coach is being sent east to accm-date accm-date thy westbound home seekers, Telegruphe reports from th eastern and central states show that the sale of colonist tickets is Increasing and every train reaching Ogfln Is heavily loaded with colonists At least one extra pnssengrr train Is being run dally to tale care of th heavy traffic traf-fic and all tra'ns carry extra coaches. |