Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-08-03
Consumption, He Says, Far Exceed
Output of Mines.
OVERLAND SPURS WILL HELP
New Trackage Being Built to Unde.
veloped Coal Lands.
CAR SHORTAGE ALSO LIKELY
In spite of 1000 New ones Added to
Equipment, Demand During Crop
Movement VIII Exceed
supply.

IF any one has space now to store coal.
l say let him get hts winters coal put
away as soon as he can" said Julius
kruttschnitt. director Of maintenance and
operation Of the Hartman lines, who spent
Friday in Omaha on his way east from the
Pacific coast
y do not want to be considered an
alarmist," he continued. and l am in abb
solute earnest when l give that advice.
am fearful that there will be a coal FAM
inc in the west this winter but I shall hope
that no actual suffering may ensue. The
consumption OF coal in the country is in
creasing faster than the production. The
Union Pacific alone has increased its con-
sumption 40 per cent in one year One can
readily see what it means II all branches
of Industry find the same condition true.
The Union Pacific is doing and will do
all it can to prevent a coal famine. We are
anxious to build spurs to coal lands in any
part Of our territory and we tell the hold
ers Of the coal lands so. Several spurs
are now in course of construction. One of
them 1 saw thes other day at Kemmerer,
wyo.. where at the request Of coal land
owners we are building a line eight miles
long.
Car shortage Also Threatens.
There will be a shortage of cars, too.
That comes regularly as the crop move
ment, and it is not surprising in view Of
the fact that everybody wants to move his
grain at the same time. l believe the sit
uation will not be serious as II has
sometimes been, and as far as our lines
are concerned in this matter, we are con-
tributing heavily toward tightening the
burden of the shipper
we learned lesson last year. Look
along the Union Pacific anywhere in Ne
braska. You Will see new cars standing on
the sidings. In the last year we have built
upwards of 1900 freight cars and have
bought hundreds of engines. having Sc
cured within seventy-nve of the number
we ordered. The sidings have been length
ened and division and terminal yards have
been extended, so that with no more cars
than the road had last fan. it would yet
be more efficient.
There is nothing I can say on the con-
struction Of a Union Pacific headquarters
building In Omaha. That matter is held
up indefinitely
Mr.. Rruttschnitt declined to discuss
stuyvesant Fish and the Illinois Central
Kruttschnitt Inspects Cut-On.
Mr. Kruttschnitt has been on the Pacific
coast for the last month. partly on a
business trip and partly for rest and recre-
alton. and has also been inspecting the
properties of the Hartman roads.
He was met at Lane, the western ter
minus Of the new Lane cut-off. by General
Superintendent Park OF the Union Pacific.
and together they made the trip over the
route Of the new line in an automobile. Mr..
Kruttschnitt was coming from the west on
No. 4. the heavy Overland Limited, which
was somewhat late. so two mail cars and
the private car No 100 OF the Southern
Pacific were detached and run ailead spe-
cial reaching Lane on the schedule time.
The special was run on to Omaha, while
Mr. Kruttschnitt and Mr.. Park inspected
the new work, which is being delayed to
some extent because OF the serious difi-
Guilty the contractors, Fitzpatrick Bros. d
Collins. are having in keeping enough men
TO do the work. II was thought for time
the new cut-of, which saves nine miles Of
running between Omaha and the west,
might be finished by November l. but de-
lays for want Of men and because Of the
settling OF the immense I'LL, have set the
work back until the officials are now hg-
uring on being able to run trains across
January /.
Mr. Kruttschnitt spent the afternoon
looking over the Union Pacific shops to
which enormous additions are now beins
made, and In looking over other Harriman
interests in Omaha.