The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-10
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Cotton and CAG EaNnaMes
 sTts an i'll Wind," and while the blow anw of it has hurt the cotton planters, at the same time 1t has proved OIes- sing In disguise to the railroads, mas this slump in the price of cotton.
 When the price of the staple was having lofty aspirations. such a thing as getting cars enough to handle tne shipments was out of the question. and railroad men wers n ss aespalFa ds ct5on Ion was a luxury, pretty hlEh ana neet7 ing with the roads. Flat cars. coal cars, gondolaa, and in fact. anything In set set of trucks was gladly jumped at for use in the transportation of cotton 1 Then gradually there was q perceptible decline. in the cotton market sBuyers, s ger, the change one moment sooner than the railroad men,
 Almost .irlstantaneoas with the. fan in sation n o in It the S shipping i orders Teeeived by the railroads. Then the ginners re- port in the daily papers became more Inflated, and the more swollen these reports became. the sharper was the slump in the price ana the easier be- came the situation with the railroads. The shipping orders had "Shrunk so that box cars could be used almost en- tirely for the movement of cotton over the different lines, and details of men with buckets. of water no longer had to go with every train to watch for pOSSlDlG SpdTkS among the long lines of cotton and coal cars piled high with bales of cotton. The ginners report continued to go up and the price to go down, and handling the shipments had the railroads. Within the last two weeks the price of cotton has fallen off nearly a cent pound. and the shipments on the railroads have fall- eA off correspondingly.
 "A local official of the Western Rail- way said yesterday that for the first time since the opening of the present cotton season, the ofnce in Montgomery the line as to the movement of cotton. While the other local roads are not exactly in this happy condition. the cotton situation with chem is vastly better than 1t mas a week or so ago.
 Cara Being Turned Out.
 The car building dePartments of the Louisville and Nashville at its Decatur, Evansville and Louisville shops, are being taxed to their utmost capacity to all the orders pouring in on them.
 The big order of the Western Rail- way for Toe flat cars and 100 box cars, has been filled, and the 200 cars deliv- cred to the Western people here in Montgomery. These cars were rushed Into service at once, out as soon as they got ou ton the road and were un- loaded at their destin ~tion, there was . general grab for them. Numerous and numbers of them were diverted.
 
 10 the Western Railway, 1t is doubtful If third of that nunIoer can be called Into use on the tracks of that road [. The western aRilway had already sev- snty-five big, fifty foot furniture cars. and to make it an even 100, an order tor twenty-five more vas recently plac- ed with the Louisville and Nashville at the Decatur shops. The Louisville and Nashville people had already de- livered thirteen or the cars to the western people here in Montgomery, and yesterday morning TWO more were delivered her,s making fifteen of the twenty five already delivered The other ten cars will be delivered next week, and then the Western Railway will have 100 fifty foot furniture cars At It's disposal if it can keep them.
 Within the next day or so 1t Is un- derstood that the Western will put In an order for 200 more flat cars at the Decatur shops of the Louisville and Nashville. When the new shops of the Western in North Montgomery are completed. it will be able not only to