The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-02-22
BUSINESS
VERY HEAVY

I'LL uLuB
The car supply in the Clarksburg
and Fairmont regions viii MT hold
up a well during the last cf the
week as ii did the first three DAYS.
according to present indications. and
the last couple of days the miners
might get a chance to take i rest
The week started out well. BIT last
night there was only small num-
Der of cars in sight for today.
Discussing the need for new roll
ing stock for freight purposes, a Bal
timore & Ohio official points out
that scarcely if ever in the history
of that road has the demand for
such accommodation been more mr.
gent. Every available car has been
put into nse and still the supply Is
insufficient for the demand. Many
freight cars are now handling this
traffic which had practically been
condemned and which viii be con-
signed to the junk yard as soon as
the new equipment is received to
take their place.
The cars are needed not only for
coal traffic, which has grown enor-
mously of late. but for general mer-
chandise movement as well. The
freight offering is BY no means local.
lzed but an almost congested con-
dltlon exists throughout the entire
system. and the only limitation on
the railroad in this matter is the in
ability to supply sufficient rolling
stock to meet the necessities of
manufactures and Of trade.
Baltimore & Ohio officials were
far-sighted enough to endeayor to
anticipate this condition about a
year ago, but it seems that other
companies were equally as alert. The
result is that all the car factories are
oyerrun with orders and many Of
them are much behind ON their con-
tracts. Last May the B. & o. placed
contracts for 10000 freight cars.
These We're to be delivered through
out the year, but it was e expected
that the whole contract would be
completed by Jan. /, 1906. 1t was
thought that this would be practical
~ assured by placing the orders for
the cars among all the prominent
car-building concerns contiguous 10
the Baltimore & Ohio territory. |
Despite this, however, up to the pres
ent time only 4,557 have been de-
livered and are in use. This is less
than one-half of the original order. |
Patrons OF the road, it is said. are
clamoring for facilities to move their |
products and the road is unable to
furnish them despite the most ener- |
getic efforts on the part of its Of
licers. Other roads, however, are
suffering from the same conditions. |
All this goes to show, it was pointed
out, that the country is prosperous,
industrially, commercially and agri-
culturally. Railroad arrangements
have endeayored to anticipate these
needs but the manufacturers when
swamped with orders were not pre-
pared to execute them with the facil-
ity and dispatch the railroad COM
panies desired and needed.
OF the 10000 freight cars order
ed by the B. & 0. in May the fol-
lowing have been delivered:
Western Steel Car & Foundry Co.,
931 box cars.
South Baltimore Car & Foundry
Co., 2s1 box cars.
Pressed Steel Car Co., 466 twin
hopper gondolas.
Cambria Steel Co, ssz cars of the
same pattern.
Pressed Steel Car Co, 1000 steel
hoppers. 4
American Car & Foundry Co, ass
of the same pattern.
Standard Steel Car Co, 135 com
posite gondolas.
American Car & Foundry CO., 16
refrigerator cars.
The order for locomotives, placed
at the same time as that for cars has
been filled as follows:
Consolidation Pattern-From the
Richmond factory, so: from
Schenectady, &c; Pacific type, Il:
switchers from the Baldwin Loco
motive works, 5.