Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-31
CAR SHORTAGE CONTINUES
Nebraska Roads Have Difficulty in Securing
Sufficient Rolling Stock.
FREIGHT ON TRACKS AWAITING ENGINES
All Forms of Freight Cars In De-
mRnd to an Extent out of
Proportion to the
supply.

A general shortage OF cars is confront
ing about all of the western roads. All
freight business is enormous and the roads
are having more than they can handle
While corn has not started to the markets
wheat is still on the move and there Is
also a shortage of refrigerator cars as well
as live stock. Shippers in the northwest
are all anxious to ship about this season
of the year. as there is a good feeder mar
ket and the railroads are taxed to their
utmost to handle the business.
Shippers in Colorado are calling for cars
which they cannot get, and the northwest
line Of the Burlington is practically con-
gested Between Sheridan and Grand
Island are COO or 700 freight cars,
with a shortage OF power to handle
them. The engines have been pooled
and in this way permitted to run down so
that now that the rush has come there is
a shortage of power to handle the business.
Every possible engine is being pressed into
service in the hope OF relieving the situa-
ton, but present prospects are not very
bright.
The Northwestern reports no blockade,
but officials say that they are having abso-
lutely all that they can do to keep the lines
open and to keep shippers supplied with
cars.
The Rock Island officials say that their
worst trouble is in securing SUFFICIENT re-
frigerator cars.
Union PRciic's Accurate Crop Report.
According to the crop report given out
by the state bureau, the figures are slightly
changed from those published by the pas
senger department of the Union Pacific in
the bulletin OF August 81. This is very graf
flying to the officials of the Union Pacific
who prepared this report, for it is quite an
advertisement for the Union Pacific to have
prepared such an accurate report fully two
months before the official report was ready.
The Union Pacific has about 200 reliable
correspondents in various towns in the state
and has built up reputation for accuracy
in the crop reports. These reports are
quoted on the Board Of Trade in Chicago
and, according to an interview with the
president Of the Board OF Trade, are con-
sidered the best that reach the grain opera
tors of Chicago
Making New Rate Sheet.
Trouble is at hand for the Burlington
| officials in arranging a suitable rate sheet
for the new cutoff between Sioux City and
Ashland. Jobbers at Sioux City are al
ready out with a cry for equal rates with
Omaha and the Omaha jobbers are not
| asleep, but are to the front in an effort
| to see that such rates are not put in opera
ton. Sioux City jobbers think, or at least
! claim that they think, that their city
should have the same basis of rates as
| Omaha, and to fix tariff sheet that will
| be suitable to all is the problem which
confronts the freight department of the
| Burlington.
The rate sheet is being worked out both
| by the Omaha and Chicago offices and
will probably be put in the hands of Fred
Montmorency when he returns Monday
| from his bear hunt in Wyoming. At any
! rate it is announced sem-officially that
Sioux City will not be permitted to bother
the Omaha jobbers.
"A broken Journal threw eight freight
cars off the track OF the Union Pacific
at Gilmore and blocked the main line for
several hours Monday morning. The reg
ular passenger trains were sent over the
| Northwestern TO Fremont and were de-
| layed but little.
Tuesday is the last date OF sale for the
! one way tourist rate to the coast and in
| termediate points and all roads will have
all the people they can haul both Tuesday
| and Wednesday, for the rate will be good
! on trains leaving the east Tuesday The
Burlington has already arranged for eleven
extra tourist cars for each day and other
roads will have their quota. The regular
round trip tourist rates to California are
| still in effect.
Track Laying Enjoined.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail-
road company has brought a suit in the
| United States circuit court to enjoin the
Union Pacific Railway company from
building line OF railway through a certain
| % eli m
Northport. on the north side of the North
Platte river. from near O'Fallon's Bluffs.
The suit is brought on a transcript from
! the district court OF Lincoln county and
embodies practically the same averments
made in the injunction recently granted the
| Union Pacific in the United States circuit
! court against the Burlington for trespass-
ing in the same territory, which is claimed
| by the Union Pacific for railway building
purposes.
The specific point Of land described in