Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-22
COAL CARS RUSHED.
Hundreds of Loads Going to North
Dakota Stations.


cars Of coal are being rushed into
much better prepared for cold weather
there are points where fuel shortage
still exists. relief is expected at any
time. Hundreds of points have been
reached and now have fuel. There is
a considerable movement of coal in
transit, coal having the right of way
on the railroads. The movement of
Illinois coal still continues, thereh. fur
nishing relief from a new sour
Favorable reports of coal move
ments are being received from the
north and west A dispatch from
Brainerd says that the Northern Pa
cific is using ore cars for handling
company coal. and Is giving all its box
cars for commercial coal, thereby in
creasing its equipment
Five hundred cars Of coal are In
transit over the Northern Pacific for
points along its main line and branches
in North Dakota. The first trains have
arrived in Fargo and the rest will be
run thru as rapidly as possible. The
cars will take wheat back to the head
of the lakes and be double relief.
Menace in Minneapolis.
Coal men are warning their GUS
toners In Minneapolis to keep their
supplies of fuel up, whether for steam
or for domestic purposes. The reason
for this is contained In question asked
today by dealer.
DO you know that If Minneapolis
should experience two-day blizzard,
the city would be tied UP completely
as to fuel? 1t could then receive no
help from the Indiana, Illinois or Iowa
coal fields on account of the blockade
that always results from such storm,
and the situation at the head of the
lakes is worse than ever There is no
coal on tracks here, Fortunately the
block managers and many of the other
steam coal buyers have been keeping
up their supplies. One big firm has
thirty days supply ahead. Others have
been unremitting in their efforts to
make up the deficiency created by the
daily use of coal.
Il know from the heavy sales of
fuel that the larger companies are max
ing every day that there is shortage
here in both hard and soft coal. The
coalyards have an average of only four
days supply Of anthracite on hand and
any cessation of receipts would work
hardship here. The mills are pretty
well off on account of the good stage
Of water. At the head of the lakes
we can't get coal cars into the docks
or loads out. Neither the Great North
ern nor the Northern Pacific seem to be
able to switch cars.
"ShouId Buy in Summer"
off the country, county and school
boards would lay in stocks ahead, as
the city board and county commission
here do. there would not be so much
trouble in the northwest They prefer
to take fuel right from the cars be-
cause they have not bin capacity
so as to take coal in the summer
months. They must learn to do other
wise and help out on the situation"
The Coal Trade Journal makes the
following comment:
'FThe situation is amusing from one
standpoint. One day an order will
come to the dock, saying: The people
at such-and- place are freezing;
send all your cars there Then by the
time some of the cars are loaded comes
a statement from the roads to the
effect that they must have fuel before
they can haul the trains SO the docks
must turn their attention to getting
out the company coal. A Great North
ern engineer from North Dakota, who
was here last week. stated that the
week before there were fourteen dead
engines on one branch of the Great
Northern in North Dakota"